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Monthly Archives: December 2007
The official BetFair blog is such a piece of crap that one of its writers is rebelling publicly against it.
One unnamed (!!) writer on the Betting @ BetFair blog (which is the biggest piece of shit I have ever seen in the Bloglosphere in my lifetime): The hunt for betting.betfair.com’s Editor-In-Chief Our yard insider on elusive Editors-In-Chief [...] The … Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal Political Market = InTrade’s Play-Money Prediction Markets
WSJ Political Market = Yet another pointless and useless play-money prediction exchange, traded mainly by InTrade bots [*] —info that is not disclosed to the public, of course. [*] There aren’t any automated market makers at NewsFutures, my preferred play-money … Continue reading
InTrade on the 2008 US presidential elections
Question to the InTrade techies: The charts below are updated once a day by Intrade. Suppose a web reader downloads this post once day, will he/she see the freshest data? Should his/her browser cache be cleared every morning for him/her … Continue reading
A big YES to insider trading on prediction markets
Mike Smithson publishes info showing UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s decision to call off a general election was known to some bettors before that decision was made public. And he concludes: One of the risks of political betting is that … Continue reading
Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg News’ executive editor for US politics, is the cluelessness incarnated.
He quotes the Vegas and the London bookmaker odds —but not our exchange-generated probabilities. Via John Ives.
We don’t know whether Google approach to management, and in particular its approach to innovation, is a cause of its success or a product of its success.
Good point. [...] Many of the most innovative and successful of Google’s new serÂvices are, in fact, ones it has acquired rather than created. Those include the hugely popular video-sharing service YouTube, the Weblog publisher Blogger, the virtual globe Google … Continue reading
The Robert Scoble Experiment With Google Reader —Prediction Market Edition
Some of you may read Robert Scoble —a smart IT blogger and podcaster. If you have been reading his blog lately, you know that he is experiencing with having many “friends” (read it: ‘online acquaintances’) with whom he shares feed … Continue reading
An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore’s movie
I just saw the DVD —and so did George Tziralis’ brother. The main points: The Keeling curve, measuring CO2 from the Mauna Loa Observatory. [See chart below.] The retreat of numerous glaciers is shown in before-and-after photographs (see Retreat of … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Antarctic, Antarctica, BetFair, climate change, George Tziralis, global warming, Greenland, InTrade, London School of Economics, Mauna Loa Observatory, Naomi Oreskes, Physics
Institute, prediction markets, United States, University of Bern
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NBC News Tim Russert (the host of Meet The Press) would have not expired the Larry Craig contract too early.
“[I]t is my intent to resign from the Senate, effective September 30 [2007]“, said US Senator Larry Craig. (Important note: In that same output, he did not say that he would not seek another term.) Based on this vague statement … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry
Tagged intent, intention, John McCain, Larry Craig, lawyer, Member, NBC, President, Senate, Tim Russert, United States, United States Senate, USD, Well
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