Monthly Archives: November, 2008
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An Internet marketing professional:
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My open question to Xpree’s Mat Fogarty
Mat, congrats for your expansion.
- Will Jim oversell the predictive power of the enterprise prediction markets?
All the other “business development” directors I see out there are overselling, in my view.
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No more margin trading at InTrade
Sudden decision. [Spot the mistake in the date at the top of that webpage.]
Todd’s not happy.
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Giving Thanks
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- Thanks to my readers.
- Thanks to InTrade, BetFair, NewsFutures, HubDub, etc.
- Thanks to Robin Hanson, David Pennock, Lance Fortnow, Jason Ruspini, Mike Giberson, David Perry, Adam Siegel, Emile Servan-Schreiber, Nigel Eccles, Chris Hibbert, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, George Tziralis, Eric Zitzewitz, Koleman Strumpf, Mike Linksvayer, etc.
- Thanks to WordPress, FireFox, Google, Wikipedia, etc.
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Andrew Goldberg laments the narrow range of political prediction markets at InTrade.
Yet another blogger who is bound to discover HubDub.
Unlike InTrade, HubDub is universal.
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“Still, as noted, it was a good election for [the] prediction markets and another piece of evidence of their superiority over the pundit[s] (and at least parity with the poll).”
Dixit Nigel Eccles in a comment.
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at least parity with the poll
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I agree with the above.
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their superiority over the pundits
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What documented evidence do you have about that, mister the cocky entrepreneurial Scotsman?
John Tierney linked to that Huffington Post that listed the pundits’ predictions about the total number of electoral votes that each presidential candidate would take. [...]
OPEN WEB AWARDS: The deck is stacked against HubDub.
Mashable put HubDub in the “Social News” category —along with Digg. HubDub will get crashed, of course.
They should have put HubDub in a “prediction markets” category.
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Yet another person outraged by the HubDub prediction markets on deaths and assassinations
Here.
Outraged by that.
Previously.
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