Monthly Archives: April 2009

Wrong Tomorrow Here today

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Niall O'Connor

I have posted this just to show that it is possible to beat Mr Masse at his own game; namely uncovering prediction market related websites. Wrong Tomorrow is a site hosted by the one and only Maciej CegÅ‚owski – whoever … Continue reading →

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Great visual (and conference) from the Cato Institute

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Chris F. Masse
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Tyler Cowen: “Blogging is not for everyone.”

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Download this post to watch the video if you don’t see the embedded video within your feed reader.

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Paul Hewitt on enterprise prediction markets

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

- Here, in response to Jed Christiansen. (Scroll down.) – Here, on his own blog. Interesting. (Paul should learn to pepper his posts with external links, though. Otherwise, a web visitor out of the loop can’t get the background of … Continue reading →

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How to make great use of the LinkedIn recommendation system

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Mat Fogarty @ LinkedIn: – “Mat is a funny, friendly and great person to work with. He’s highly entrepreneurial and innovative business leader, with passion and drive. I’d recommend Crowdcast to anyone – they know how to create best-of-breed online … Continue reading →

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“Entrepreneur” is a French word.

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

The Kauffman Foundation president in the WSJ.

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If prediction market advocates are so confident, why aren’t their claims more specific?

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Jed Christiansen was kind enough to reply to my post: If prediction markets are so good at forecasting, why aren’t they being used much more widely? #1. (Public or enterprise) traders mainly bring to the exchange some bits of information … Continue reading →

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Pat Metheny Radio

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

I get it from iTunes (the software). Click on “Radio”, “Jazz”, and then “Pat Metheny Radio”. Wonderful music.

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The software I use on my MacBook Pro 17″

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

If you use some great software packages (utilities or applications) missing in this list, let me know. Thanks. Appreciated. Operating Systems: Linux – Ubuntu – Apple Macintosh OS – Apple iPhone OS – MicroSoft Windows Open-Source Software Packages: Open-Source Software … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia-style collective Intelligence didn’t kill Google Web Search.

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

I blogged about how Wikipedia killed Encarta (the encyclopedia published by MicroSoft). Today, here’s a report on the demise of Wikia —a search engine partially powered by human input (a la Wikipedia), and co-founded by Jimmy Wales. The Wired article … Continue reading →

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