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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.”
Posted in Business, Exchanges & Markets, Finance
Tagged accounts, BetFair, profits, revenues, The Sporting Exchange
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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
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
Posted in Economics, Entertainment, Humor
Tagged Economics, Humor, Open Media, Stand-Up Economist, videos
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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
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
Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Analysis (Market Calls), Exchanges & Markets, Finance
Tagged Ben Shannon, Finance, Financial Markets, forecasting, forecasting the future, Jesse Livermore, S&P 500, speculating, stock market, stock markets, stocks, the future, Wiser Than The Crowd
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Politickr Intrade Market Wrap – August 4, 2009
PoliTickR – Andrew Goldman PoliTickR @ Twitter
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.
Posted in Betting
Tagged Enterprise 2.0, intranets, social intranets, social networking, Web 2.0
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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.