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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Last year’s best April Fool’s Day joke had something to do with the wisdom of crowds.
- CNET: Wikipedia founder’s bold experiment Diagnosed with cataracts, Jimmy Wales invites first 100 people who show up at his home to perform surgery. “There may be some trial and error, but I’m confident the community will make the right … Continue reading
Will HedgeStreet USA, the hypothetical InTrade USA, and the hypothetical TradeFair USA, be regulated in the future by a merged SEC+CFTC regulatory structure?
That sounds like a good prediction market proposal. – As you all know: The SEC regulates the securities markets (which support capital formation). The CFTC regulates the futures markets (which exist to discover prices). The SEC is rules based, meaning … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Market Proposals), Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Regulations
Tagged Acting Chairman, CFTC, CFTC Acting Chairman Walt Lukken Regarding Department, Chicago Tribune, CME Group, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Congress, D.C., Department of the Treasury, good government solutions, hybrid products, Jason Ruspini, merger, Paulson, SEC, Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Department, United States, US Treasury, USD, Walt Lukken, Washington
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WORST THAN ELIOT SPITZER (if it were possible): Formula One boss, Max Mosley, had sado-masochist sex with 5 prostitutes, for 5 hours (!!), reenacting a concentration camp scene (!!) in which he played the role of both Nazi guard and inmate.
Here are the ugly photos. [UPDATE: Photos and videos have been taken down.] The associations representing the victims of the Nazi regime are all up in arms, as you may imagine. UPDATE #2: The Times of London says he should … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities
Tagged BetFair, Constructors Championship, Drivers Championship, Eliot Spitzer, Formula 1, Formula One, Germany, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, London, Max Mosley, NASCAR, Nazi guard, Nazy, prediction markets, the Times, TradeSports
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Is BetFair Poker a booby trap for the gullible novices? Does The Sporting Exchange (the operator of the BetFair brands) help gangs plucking down innocent recreational poker players?? To get an inkling, don’t read The Guardian, seeded by the BetFair spin doctor; read Midas Oracle.
Rab Bibater commenting here: [...] the dark side of online poker – the fact that many players are colluding using devices such as MSN messenger; this is something that the average innocent, who decides to play online poker, is better … Continue reading
The video that the technologically retarded BetFair spin doctor should watch.
Blogs: What are they good for? – - Robert Scoble’s blog Mashable blog – UPDATE: More about blogging from Tech Crunch.
Google is THE problem, but BetFair should discover the solution.
Here’s why. Take a look at the following Google search results: – - PROBLEM #1: GOOGLE LINKS PROMINENTLY TO THE POST THAT PUBLICIZED THE RUMOR. SOLUTION: Updating that post with the link to the post that debunks that rumor. RISK: … Continue reading
The economic model that BetFair Australia operates under does not compensate the industry for putting on the show.
… said some kind of horse racing official from Down Under. Via mister Betting Market.
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Business, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged BetFair, BetFair Australia, official, prediction markets
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A little international HELLO to the friends of prediction markets around the world
Infontology (I like that blog name): den 17 januari 2008 Informationssamhället och nässlorna Ett informationssamhälle är ett samhälle där nässlorna kunde genomgÃ¥ en mutation och sluta brännas, utan att nÃ¥gon hade märkt det. /Simon – 09:46 f.m. | Permalink Comments … Continue reading
LinkedIn feed of your network updates
UPDATE: Following my protestation published in the post below, LinkedIn has just fixed the problem I described and its network update feeds do now output both a title and a body (a.k.a. description). The body contains information and links, as … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Midas Oracle Network
Tagged Chris Masse, feeds, Google, LinkedIn, Robert Scoble, RSS, TechCrunch writer
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