Monthly Archives: May 2009

Midas Oracle Comment Policy

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Only registered members are able to comment. (People can register themselves.) Midas Oracle [*] has a do-follow plugin for links inserted in comments, so the ideas you leave here help you build a higher PageRank for your own blog or … Continue reading →

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OpenID on Midas Oracle

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

In the WordPress options for the OpenID plugin, I have just checked: Automatically approve comments left with verified OpenIDs. These comments will bypass all comment moderation. Still working on many technicalities in the coming weeks…

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The Fox… and the Hedgehog

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Emile Servan-Schreiber looks like the fox to me. He acknowledges a reality: the prediction market adoption problematic. (Leslie Fine is in the same boat.) Okay, but I want more proof. How come Inkling Markets administrators seem to be happy with … Continue reading →

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Panos Ipeirotis = InTrade’s digital scribe

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Panos Ipeirotis: I have to say that InTrade provides a very convenient API to store historic data. I coded within a couple of days a spider on Google App Engine that visits InTrade and stores the archival data. A pre-alpha … Continue reading →

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President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget request would give federal securities and commodities regulators additional resources to investigate fraud and manipulation in the financial markets.

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

SEC + CFTC = WSJ

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Inkling Administrator Conference is live on Twitter.

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Arik Johnson is twittering it. #inkling And the event is being video-tapped… —stay tuned to Midas Oracle. P.S.: The Inkling workshop is a regret-free conference.

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

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Adam Siegel is twittering it. #inkling Best wishes to Inkling Markets for their workshop. It will be a rich event, and no-one will have “regrets” about it.

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The 80 Best WordPress Plugins

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

The 80 Best WordPress Plugins All of them have been tested extensively by me on my 2 blogs.

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No prediction market archives on the Web = No search engines for prediction market data

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

I raved the other day about the coming of search engines for (public) data, and I dreamed up about search engines for prediction market data. What I completely forgot to mention is that most of prediction exchanges don’t publish their … Continue reading →

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Business Models

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Fred Wilson (who invested in Twitter): CPM ads (“cost per thousand views”; banner ads online and regular ads in print, TV and radio) CPC ads (“cost per click”; think Google ads) CPT ads (“cost per transaction”; you pay only if … Continue reading →

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