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Monthly Archives: June 2009
HubDub on CNN — 30 seconds into
HubDub
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities
Tagged Bo, CNN, HubDub, prediction markets
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InTrade’s fifth Beatle talks (very fast) about the financial markets.
Patrick Young (who co-founded InTrade) wraps up a conference on financial markets. Wow. What a brain. Watch the video.
Mike Linksvayer *himself* is to blame for the non-liquidity of his Wikipedia prediction markets.
Mike Linksvayer: Prior to the Wikipedia community vote on adopting CC BY-SA it crossed my mind to set up several play money prediction market contracts concerning the above outcomes conditioned on Wikipedia adopting CC BY-SA by August 1, 2009, for … Continue reading
Posted in Collective Forecasting, Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Prediction Journalism, X Groups
Tagged betting markets, event derivative markets, Internet Marketing, liquidity, marketing, Mike Linksvayer, prediction markets, Wikipedia, X Groups
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ROBIN HANSON HAS RENOUNCED TO RULE THE UNIVERSE VIA PREDICTION MARKETS.
Robin Hanson: I’m not proposing to implement futarchy full stop one day; I’m proposing to run a series of increasingly large trials. That would give you the data you want. Wow, modesty and humility. Mark the day.
Posted in Analysis (Market Proposals), Exchanges & Markets, Humor
Tagged futarchy, Humor, Robin Hanson
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*Years* later, the BetFair blogs are still *not* taking off.
- Google PageRank of Betting @ BetFair: 5 / 10. – Google PageRank of BetFair Predicts: 4 / 10. – Number of feed subscribers at Google Reader for Betting @ BetFair: 29. – Number of feed subscribers at Google Reader … Continue reading
300 happy people… minus one imbecile
I forgot to tell you that, yesterday, we welcomed our 300th member in the LinkedIn group on prediction markets. We are the #1 networking group in the world on the topic of prediction markets (and collecting forecasting ). Wow. The … Continue reading
“Collective Forecasting”… becomes officially our second industry keyword starting today —I decreeted that after a good slurp of Bordeaux wine.
In homage to our good doctor Robin Hanson (I am too good, I know), I let the term “collective forecasting” appear in the description of the LinkedIn group on prediction markets: This group is for anybody who have a strong … Continue reading
Posted in Collective Forecasting, Exchanges & Markets, Midas Oracle Network, Search Engine Optimization
Tagged betting markets, business models, Collective Forecasting, event derivative markets, forecasting, information aggregation, Internet Marketing, Internet Strategy, Internet Strategy group at LinkedIn, LinkedIn, LinkedIn group on Internet Strategy, LinkedIn group on Prediction Markets, Midas Oracle, networking, networking groups, prediction markets, Prediction Markets group at LinkedIn, Search Engine Optimization, web design
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InTrade daily prediction market wrapup
Video by our good friend, Andrew Goldberg —who, unlike Wiser Than The Crowd, is in the open. Tell me in the comments whether his video has value for you. If yes, then I might re-publish it daily. Or let Andrew … Continue reading