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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Question to the Midas Oracle readers who trade event derivatives on BetFair
- Did the BetFair website fail many times in the past? – Did the Betfair website experience loading problems under some circumstances (political elections, national team wining a game, etc.)? Previously: The InTrade website problems
InTrade-TradeSports has a web server misconfiguration problem, and CEO John Delaney has a character problem.
As I wrote at the time, the InTrade-TradeSports websites were unavailable, last Friday, August 29, 2008, during a good part of the morning. InTrade-TradeSports is not only an event derivative exchange, but also a webspot that non-trading people often consult … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Industry), Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce
Tagged bet exchanges, BetFair, betting exchanges, betting markets, de facto monopolies, Ethics, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, event derivatives, InTrade, John Delaney, monopolies, prediction exchanges, prediction market industry, prediction markets, Todd, TradeSports
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Democratic hatchet men disguised as “scholars” in the Press
The title of the Politico story is, “Scholars question Palin credentials“. Now, read the update to get a good laugh. -
Posted in Ethics, Humor, Politics
Tagged bias, Humor, political bias, Politico, Politics, Sarah Palin, US politics
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Prediction markets, search engines, and social networking: a triangular marriage made in heaven.
Midas Oracle is a group blog devoted on all the dimensions of all the prediction markets. The marketing dimension is important. Since the Iowa Electronic Markets, the Foresight Exchange, the Hollywood Stock Exchange, BetFair, NewsFutures and TradeSports (which later spinned … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Software
Tagged bet exchanges, BetFair, betting exchanges, betting markets, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Foresight Exchange, Google Search, Google Web Search, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HubDub, IEM, Internet Marketing, InTrade, InTrade .NET, Iowa Electronic Markets, NewsFutures, prediction exchanges, prediction market firms, prediction markets, Search Engines, social networking, TradeSports
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Zocalo in use at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence
A few months ago I announced that my work on the Zocalo open source Prediction Market project is being supported by consulting contracts with two universities, but was unable to name the second one. I’m pleased to publicly announce that … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, All Guest Authors's Posts, Cases, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Consulting, Exchanges & Markets, Software
Tagged bet exchanges, betting exchanges, betting markets, Collective Intelligence, corporate prediction exchanges, corporate prediction markets, enterprise prediction exchanges, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, internal prediction exchanges, internal prediction markets, MIT CCI, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, private prediction exchanges, private prediction markets, Tom Malone, wisdom of crowds, Zocalo
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