Monthly Archives: March 2009

iPhone app that lets you write posts on your WordPress blog

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

http://iphone.wordpress.org/

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Max Keiser has now a blog —powered by WordPress, what else.

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

http://maxkeiser.com/ http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV http://twitter.com/maxkeiser Best wishes to Max and Stacy. We will follow the development of their TV business…

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Don’t believe the hype.

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

California Institute of Technology economist Charles Plott: What you’re doing is collecting bits and pieces of information and aggregating it so we can watch it and understand what people know. People picked this up and called it the “wisdom of … Continue reading →

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How to leverage Midas Oracle to get visitors for your prediction market website

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Today, we will look at an SEO strategy that Dee Barizo calls “indirect SEO“. Indirect SEO is leveraging sites that rank well on Google. Basically, you create content and optimize it for keywords. However, you don’t place the content on … Continue reading →

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Flu predictions based on querying behavior (on Google and Yahoo!) are somewhat less impressive than simply looking to the recent past of flu levels.

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Via the ultra-demanding Bo Cowgill: Predictions from an autoregressive model outperform [flu] predictions based on search volume. So much for the too-hastily-trumpeted predictive power of Yahoo! and Google. Yet another wisdom-of-crowds hype that ends up down the toilet. And our … Continue reading →

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Midas Oracle is #1… —far above Yahoo! News.

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Chris F. Masse
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Scott Page interview

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

MP3 file The power of diversity.

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That’s a good one.

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Dr. Tetlock is an expert, which by his own research would seem to indicate that he is probably wrong! Excellent.

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Who needs pundits’ track records when we have prediction markets?

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Emile Servan-Schreiber: Mr. Kristof, if you want to keep yourself accountable and track the success of your predictions in the long run and in real-time, why not simply participate in a prediction market such as NewsFutures? You could suggest that … Continue reading →

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Midas Oracle reads the interviews of the exchange executives… —so you don’t have to.

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

BetFair’s P.R. honcho: – A successful campaign is one that fulfils the original brief; one that delivers our key messages to the target audience. – It’s all about having a positive effect on the bottom line. You can’t disagree with … Continue reading →

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