Monthly Archives: July 2009

What will happen with black Harvard Professor Henry Gates and the Police Officer?

- What will happen with black Harvard Professor Henry Gates and the Police Officer?

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CrowdCast is hiring like crazy.

CrowdCast Careers: VP Marketing Senior Software Engineer Support Engineer Previously: CrowdCast = Collective Forecasting = Collective Intelligence That Predicts

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My response on high frequency trading, price discovery, liquidity, and transaction costs is up.

Here, in response to this, which has Wall Street abuzz today. An excerpt from “Bovine Scatology”: Ten years ago, your mutual fund manager would have to use Goldman or a competitor’s block desk to move 100,000 shares of Proctor and … Continue reading

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NewsFutures Product Concept Optimizer = consumer product concept testing

Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures: Google Moderator is not comparable to our Product Concept Optimizer, which, by the way, is a lot more than just an Idea Pageant. The Google thing is a standard issue poll-like app, whereas we developed the … Continue reading

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BetFair really need to sort our their suspension and inplay process.

“I don’t know how people can confidently commit capital to markets that are, at best, becoming very erratic.”

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The very good little secrets of one of the BetFair SEOs —and why you should not apply them.

Slides here. Download this post if your feed reader does not show you the embedded slides: It is a good theoretical material. The only thing: The BetFair SEOs have been incapable of raising the PageRank of both Betting @ BetFair … Continue reading

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Al Roth est un petit coquin.

Al Roth: [The fishing guide] also packed lunch, which we ate looking up at the Grand Tetons, which sounds even better in French.

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Lance Fortnow rants against the too many conferences on computer science.

Lance Fortnow (PDF file): Our conference systems forces researchers to focus too heavily on quick, technical and safe papers instead of considering broader and newer ideas. Meanwhile we have focused much of our time and money on conferences where we … Continue reading

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NewsFutures Idea Pageant (which is costly) as a competitor of Google Moderator (which is free)

NewsFutures to me: Dear [Chris Masse], The uncanny ability of NewsFutures traders to predict the future is legendary That’s why the folks at the Hidden Valley company, creators of the world-famous Original Ranch dressing, are eager for your feedback on … Continue reading

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Did Slate investigate the InTrade account of Ben Shannon (alias “Jesse Livermore”, who blogs at “Wiser Than The Crowd”)?

Here is the original request from Slate: Slate magazine looking for Intrade junkies Hi there Intraders, I’m working on a story for Slate about the people who drive prediction markets –especially those who are very good at it. I’m interested … Continue reading

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