Monthly Archives: August 2009

InTrade.Net’s free workforce: Calling a spade… a spade.

- Here’s my answer to Jamie Burrows: Midas Oracle is an independent publication —independent from InTrade, and from the other prediction market organizations. We say what we want, here. As I explained in my comment, there are 2 situations. Case … Continue reading

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Robin Hanson is dual on FaceBook.

Robin Hanson has a very private profile (no bombastic bloggers allowed)… and a group named after Him. Next thing, he’ll set up a page, maybe.

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That impresses the hell out of me…

Tyler Cowen has 1,180 friends on FaceBook. Wow. P.S.: And unlike Mike Giberson, Tyler has set up his own FaceBook username.

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Betting on/against Rand Paul

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Michael Jackson’s Doctor to Be Charged With Manslaughter

FOX News Story dismissed? Via Carlos Graterol Will Michael Jackson’s doctor be charged?

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Financial gaming explained in 50 seconds

TradeSmarter Download this post to see the embedded video —in case your feed reader doesn’t show it to you.

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The InTrade.Net slaves have now a LinkedIn group to network and discuss about how Google AdWords/AdSense will bring them peanuts.

InTrade.Net – LinkedIn group Our good friend Mike Linksvayer doesn’t like my using of the word “slaves”. Next: InTrade.Net’s free workforce: Calling a spade… a spade.

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Become Mike Giberson’s friend on FaceBook

Michael Giberson @ FaceBook If you go to Mike’s wall, you will see that I broke the FaceBook etiquette. I can’t be stopped.

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Upgrade your Video DownloadHelper — FireFox Extension

Upgrade your Video DownloadHelper — FireFox Extension. You do that by updating your add-ons —in your FireFox add-on menu (in “Tools”). You need to be up-to-date with version 4.6.2 —it corrects a problem that started with the latest version of … Continue reading

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Smarkets was created because their founders felt that BetFair was lacking social features.

Smarkets video: Spot the intro by Jason Trost. Smarkets Launch Party from Smarkets on Vimeo.

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