Monthly Archives: April 2009

CrowdCast want to hire the world.

- A prediction market consultant. – A sales leader. Crowdcast is the leading provider of prediction market solutions created exclusively for the enterprise. Hummm… The leaders are NewsFutures and Inkling Markets. But maybe CrowdCast will take the lead, later on, … Continue reading

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Midas Oracle is in re-construction.

Dear readers, Just a short note to tell you not to worry if you see that the Midas Oracle website is in shambles: – I have installed a new “theme” (which generates the layout of the blog) and I am … Continue reading

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Did Midas Oracle (re)-publish the picture of Russell Andersson without Russell Andersson’s express “consent”?

Yes —here is the post that I published in May 2007. As you can see if you click on the link, the content of that post is rather positive for mister Russell Andersson, since I called him the “brain” behind … Continue reading

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The Crisis of Credit Visualized

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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Smarkets want to attract bettors that are (allegedly) scared to death by BetFair’s complexity.

Smarkets TechCrunch Geek’n Rolla Pitch from Smarkets on Vimeo. Download this post to see the embedded video above —if your feed reader doesn’t show it to you. Smarkets – Blog post

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Inkling Administrator Conference on May 7th, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Inkling Administrator Conference on May 7th, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Adam Siegel: There won’t be any sales pitches or windy academic talks. I like that. And their price ($79) is reasonable —contrast it with the $400 that the clown … Continue reading

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Prediction Markets: Trading Uncertainty for Collective Wisdom

Prediction Markets: Trading Uncertainty for Collective Wisdom – (PDF file) – by NewsFutures’ Emile Servan-Schreiber – 2009-04-xx UPDATE: Paul Hewitt’s take

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Besides the street consensus line, we should work out on a prediction market consensus line.

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WordPress theme P2 by Automattic

WordPress theme P2 – Introduction – P2 in action WordPress – Automattic Download this post if your feed reader doesn’t show you the embedded video above. -

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Nate Silver of FiveThirtYeight.com on “The Interview Show” —recorded November 5th, 2008

Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com on “The Interview Show,” recorded November 5th, 2008: – - Nate Silver on November 3rd, 2008: – Nate Silver on August 21, 2008: -

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