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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
NewsFutures is using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
NewsFutures is using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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
Posted in Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Google Wave, Google Wave explaner
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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
Posted in Finance, Politics
Tagged currencies, debts, Finance, Financial Markets, Max Keiser, Michael Hudson, On The Edge, TV shows
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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
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
Posted in Business & Economic Models, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, The Internet
Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, Business & Economic Models, content, inbound links, Internet Marketing, Internet Strategy, NakedPizza, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Starbucks, Tim O'Reilly, Twitter
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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
Posted in Midas Oracle Statistics
Tagged Marginal Revolution, referring sites, Twitter, web statistics, web traffic
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Rich Jaycobs was right.
There is now a strong anti-derivatives mood in D.C. Watch out, event derivatives.