Monthly Archives: August 2009

BetFair saw revenues jump 27% to £303m in the year to April.

“All in all, it now has 652,000 registered users (up 25% on the previous year), with some £240m sitting in their online accounts.”

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BetFair is far behind in the Google Search results for the hot BetFair issues.

Go to Google, and type: – betfair premium charges; – betfair bet-matching logic. On both issues, the BetFair pages appear well below the Midas Oracle pages, which rank #1. BetFair’s Internet marketing team has a lot to learn about content … Continue reading

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Stand-Up Economist: The world’s first and only stand-up economist

Stand-Up Economist: The world’s first and only stand-up economist http://www.standupeconomist.com/ Stand-Up Economist @ FaceBook Via: Edifying Editing – (PDF file) – by R. Preston McAfee

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2 fields likely to boom in future years

- neuroeconomics [*] – algorithmic game theory According to: Edifying Editing – (PDF file) – by R. Preston McAfee [*] Ben Shannon (alias “Jesse Livermore”, who blogs at “Wiser Than The Crowd”) would do good in that field. Previously: Ben … Continue reading

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Ben Shannon on his misguided “SELL” stock market call delivered just before the stock market rally

Ben Shannon on his “SELL” market call Previously: Wiser Than The Stock Market — NOT UPDATE: Andrew Page + Henry Blodget

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David Pennock colleague’s confession as journal editor

I’ve spent a considerable amount of time as an editor. I’ve rejected about 2,500 papers, and accepted 200. No one likes a rejection and less than 1% consider it justified. Fortunately, there is some duplication across authors, so I have … Continue reading

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Politickr Intrade Market Wrap – August 4, 2009

PoliTickR – Andrew Goldman PoliTickR @ Twitter

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President Barack Obama as a version of Heath Ledger’s Joker character in The Dark Knight

Obama Joker poster: – A federal government run health insurance plan to be approved before midnight ET 31 Dec 2009 – What promise will Barack Obama break first? What promise will Barack Obama break first? -

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Community features are spreading from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0.

Research across 14 companies found that many are making productive use of social intranet features.

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The tipping point is the endorsement by celebrities.

Spot the increase starting in early 2009: Since 2009, celebrities (Oprah, Martha, Mariah, Ashton, Demi, Al, etc.) have endorsed that thing, whose growth is pictured above. Do prediction markets need star power to take off? Comments are open.

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