Monthly Archives: March, 2008
Last year’s best April Fool’s Day joke had something to do with the wisdom of crowds.
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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 decisions,” Wales said.
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MIDAS ORACLE’S 2008 APRIL FOOL’S DAY JOKE: BetFair-TradeFair hire Bo Cowgill in an attempt to improve [...]
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.
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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 it sets regulations that institutions must follow, while the CFTC is principles based, in that it sets broad [...]
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 resign. I concur.
UPDATE #3: Max Mosley’s Nazy sex party is big news in Germany. Bild does [...]
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 not knowing about!
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Is that true, folks? (It sounds like it is.) Let me know in the [...]
The video that the technologically retarded BetFair spin doctor should watch.
Blogs: What are they good for?
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Robert Scoble’s blog
Mashable blog
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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:
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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: People won’t click on the debunking link.
UBBER SOLUTION: Replacing that rumor content with the debunking content??
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PROBLEM #2: THE OFFICIAL BETFAIR [...]
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.
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 genomgå en mutation och sluta brännas, utan att någon hade märkt det.
/Simon
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… och informationssamhället blir en övergångsform till sökardito – som är ett samhälle i långtgående upplösning och krampaktiga motreaktioner? Brännande nässlor är allt [...]
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 I asked in this post.
So, kudos to the LinkedIn engineers for computing that, [...]
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