Monthly Archives: December 2008

Happy New Year… from Google

Google has updated its PageRank system. Check your website(s). -

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The Open Institute Of Prediction Markets

To get informed about our attempt at creating, in 2009, “The Open Institute Of Prediction Markets“, you should: - be a member of the LinkedIn group on Prediction Markets (we are 192 197, whereas John M’s group is only 77) —I … Continue reading

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Prediction markets react to polls.

Learning in Investment Decisions: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Polls – (PDF file) – David S. Lee and Enrico Moretti – 2008-12-XX In this paper, we explore how polls and prediction markets interact in the context of the 2008 U.S. … Continue reading

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Mario Galea and the Malta Lotteries And Gaming Authority: the continuing corruption of this puppet online gambling licensing body

This is a follow up to the previous Malta LGA article I wrote for Midas Oracle earlier this year, and a re-working and extension of the Mario Galea and the LGA article on my own site a few weeks ago. … Continue reading

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Improving startup virality using prediction markets to estimate failure probability?

Improving startup virality using prediction markets to estimate failure probability?

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Collective Intelligence – Prediction Markets – NewsFutures

I am republishing those YouTube videos, because now I know how to make them appear in the feed readers (e.g., Google Reader). So I hope that, this time, my 1,000+ feed subscribers will watch those videos. – Emile Servan-Schreiber of … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.7, the embedded YouTube videos, and the feed readers

This is an update. The WordPress guy came back to me with answers. It is a dual problem: a HTML validity issue and an invalid tag issue in TinyMCE. One way to solve the problem would be to use the … Continue reading

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Google FriendSense inside each prediction market webpage?

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Would enterprise prediction markets have predicted the complete collapse of the market for corporate jets?

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Where do you get most of your national and international news?

“From the Internet” … is in red:

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