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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Prediction exchanges drop like flies.
I note the shrinking pool of prediction markets —both play money and real money. I have updated my listings, deleting the corpses. It is very sad. A lot of bullshit was fed to us by some spin doctors of the … Continue reading
SEO challenge of the day: FanDuel
Midas Oracle is the #2 result for the Google search on “CrowdCast” —above the New York Times. I am going to optimize Midas Oracle today for “FanDuel”. I need to surpass Twitter, TechCrunch UK and FaceBook. A piece of cake … Continue reading
Smarkets Launch Party
YOU ARE NOT INVITED. DON’T COME.
Posted in Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Humor
Tagged Humor, Smarkets, Smarkets Launch Party
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George Tziralis is like Robin Hanson: He spreads himself too thin.
Our good friend George Tziralis is leaving the development of WebSource.IT to others. “Unfortunately, this also tempted me to leave subjects after mastering their major insights.”
How the obsession with InTrade and BetFair’s prediction markets destroyed some careers
It is an untold story on Midas Oracle. There has been a carefully orchestrated plan to keep me out of the loop —so that I don’t report anything to you. I have censored myself so as not to tell you … Continue reading
Nigel Eccles’s split brain
- HubDub, on one hand. – FanDuel, on the other hand. Makes no sense at all.
Google Wave = a bunch of shared IM conversations that are organised like email messages and stored on the server for time immemorial. The upshot of all this is that you can use it in a variety of different ways depending on what you want to achieve. It serves as an IM, IRC and Email server, but you can also do things that you might not necessarily first think of, such as using it as a simple Wiki with shared editing and history.
“Once you include the gadgets and robots, things start getting a bit out of control! Gadgets let you drop in pretty much anything into a conversation; chess boards, maps, videos and anything else that people develop.”
If you don’t fork over your money ($5, $9, $10, $18, $25, $45), Nigel Eccles is going to beat you up.
= An alternative caption for the FanDuel photo Previously: HubDub launches FanDuel exclusively thru TechCrunch UK, which is, of course, upbeat on its future. Here’s a more critical take.
Nigel Eccles addresses all the TechCrunch UK comments about FanDuel —except mine, of course.
Nigel Eccles: Thanks everyone for the comments. Regarding the ‘How is this different from X’ questions: OneSeason – We are big fans of OneSeason and the team behind it. I think it is a pretty revolutionary idea however it is … Continue reading →