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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Midas Oracle now appears faster than ever in your Google Reader thanks to PubSubHubBub.
Midas Oracle now appears faster than ever in your Google Reader thanks to PubSubHubBub. About 10 minutes after publication, some times —half an hour later, at other times. (Within Google Reader, put up your mouse cursor, without clicking, onto the … Continue reading
Search terms: prediction markets vs. betting markets
Search terms: prediction markets vs. betting markets Via the British betting expert
How the Financial Times failed its readership through an over willingness to swallow the UK betting industry’s nonsensical spin.
How the Financial Times failed its readership through an over willingness to swallow the UK betting industry’s nonsensical spin. Dixit the British betting expert
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Testing my new WordPress-to-Twitter plugin — ± ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + – = ? , . / Sorry for this post, folks. UPDATE: AW=SO=ME.
Posted in Information Technology
Tagged plugins, Twitter, WordPress, WordPress plugins
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Tyler Cowen on Creating Your Own Economy
Tyler Cowen on Creating Your Own Economy – Tyler Cowen’s new book, “Create Your Own Economy†— Blogging Heads TV – (BloggingHeads.TV) MP4 file – Create Your Own Economy – by Tyler Cowen The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered … Continue reading
User revolt against the de facto monopolies in prediction markets?
InTrade (in the U.S.) and BetFair (in the U.K.) are de facto monopolistic, real-money prediction exchanges. Will those monopolies spur users to revolt? Will we see an open-source movement in prediction markets? That’s the question I asked privately to some … Continue reading
Prediction markets in the World Bank
“CGAP, an independent research center housed in the Bank and focused on microfinance, is trying to use prediction markets to assess the future of mobile banking.” http://cgap.inklingmarkets.com/
Redefining Collective Intelligence
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On – (PDF file) – by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle Not a single word on collective forecasting…!!!… What a nuclear shame.
BetFair (The Sporting Exchange) might be floated.
“We don’t need to raise capital but we will need a liquidity event [to allow shareholders to cash in]… A float is an obvious option.”
Posted in Business, Exchanges & Markets, Finance
Tagged BetFair, capital, shareholders, Stock Exchange, stock market, The Sporting Exchange
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