The best headline of the day -post Michigan

Posted on January 16, 2008 by admin

Ron Paul

From the Los Angeles Times:

Ron Paul, Dr. No-body, beats Rudy and Fred &#8211-again.
Well, he&#8217-s hanging in there. Not only that, but Rep. Ron Paul thumped two reputed Republican heavyweights in the Michigan primary &#8212- former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. [&#8230-]

Take that, Mike Linksvayer and Caveat Bettor.

Read the previous blog posts by Chris. F. Masse:

WordPress, you’re simply the best.
Swarchy – Unleashing the mass wisdom
Prediction markets are rushing to incorporate the latest Nevada polls. [*]
The BetFair blog claims a worldwide victory, but does not show its wares.
The Future of the Prediction Markets
We regret to inform you of the passing of BettingMarket.com.
Niall O’Connor, the one-data-point analyst

BitGravity = video distribution network

Posted on January 16, 2008 by admin

BitGravity is the IT provider for the official Apple video feed of MacWorld 2008.

Go to its frontpage, and stick there for 3 minutes to watch the awesome animals-in-the-wild video.

Let&#8217-s hope that the videos on prediction markets will reach this high level of quality, one day.

Read the previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

Prediction Market Journalism
TechCrunch is 221 times bigger than Midas Oracle.
Earthquake measuring 9.0 or more on Richter scale to occur anywhere on or before December 31, 2008
Why Midas Oracle (and not TV news shows or print newspapers) will dominate the future.
The Six Degrees Of Separation
Alpha Thesis
Meet Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.

Prediction Markets vs. Bookmakers – The Ultimate Argument

Posted on January 16, 2008 by admin

Las Vegas Sun:

“The bookie’s odds will be influenced by his appetite for risk, the action he’s got on his side and his own bias,” said John Delaney, chief executive officer of Dublin-based Intrade.com, the world’s largest prediction market. “If I were to ask you where you would find the expected value of IBM, would you ask a broker or go to the stock exchange? The aggregation of information that happens on an exchange typically provides better information than if you had several buyers and just one seller.”

Excellent.

Read the previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

BetFair-TradeFair (slightly) improve their blog, finally (it was about time) —and open 2 new sections: “prediction markets” and “financials”.
Control in Distributed Networks (Decisions 2.0: Distributed Decision-making)
What are enterprise prediction markets for?
BetFair sponsor medical doctor for jockeys.
Freakonomics @ Predictify
MyPronostic
Can you correctly forecast sales of music CDs?