Monthly Archives: May 2009

The MIT CCI removes Robin Hanson.

http://cci.mit.edu/hanson.html The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Yeah, it was “removed”. The Web is broken if even the MIT can’t run content for … Continue reading

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NewsFutures is using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

NewsFutures is using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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The prediction markets chalk another one up, as Susan Boyle is sent packing.

I have an ongoing disagreement with Prof Panos about how to report a set of expired prediction markets. He claims that one should report “the historic average of similar markets”. That’s important but not urgent. First thing is to report … Continue reading

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What prediction market people should know about Google Wave

Google Wave explainer from the good people at Mashable [Cross-posted from the other blog devoted to Internet business models] UPDATE: Testing Google Wave

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Max Keiser interviews financial economist and historian Michael Hudson.

The topics (the show is called “On The Edge”, I should warn you) : Iraqi stock exchange; sovereign debt crises; currency volatility; a new class war; the rich will never pay taxes again; kleptocracy. Michael Hudson comes in at 2:00 … Continue reading

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Prof Panos hates it when I point to a prediction market “failure”.

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Why I unsubscribed to John Delaney (InTrade) and Jed Christiansen at Twitter

I try to “follow” as many prediction market people on Twitter as I can (click on “following”), but I had to unfollow these 2 persons because: – I like Jed a lot, but he often tweets about his private life. … Continue reading

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Some thougths about Amazon.com

- They are testing Twitter. I would look at the Twitter presences of Tim O’Reilly, StarBucks and NakedPizza for ideas on how to use Twitter. In my view, the StarBucks idea to have one Twitter journalist/blogger inside StarBucks reporting from … Continue reading

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Twitter drove more traffic to Midas Oracle than Marginal Revolution (who have linked to us) did —this past week.

FREEZE: The feed subscribers of Marginal Revolution (who came here thru Google Reader or else) are not counted, so the number for Marginal Revolution is actually higher than what Google Analytics tells me. This stats is only for the referring … Continue reading

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Rich Jaycobs was right.

There is now a strong anti-derivatives mood in D.C. Watch out, event derivatives.

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