Monthly Archives: September 2009

FAIL — BetFair have fucked up the Right2Bet widgets.

Since 2005, I have been telling BetFair to create chart widgets that go into feed —that is, widgets that can be seen within feed readers (e.g., Google Reader, which is the most popular of all the feed readers). As you … Continue reading

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Testing the Right2Bet widgets

I am testing one Right2Bet widget to see whether it goes inside feed —that is, whether any feed reader like Google Reader takes it. The Right2Bet widget should appear below: End of the Right2Bet feed reader – UPDATE: Yes, it … Continue reading

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Michael Moore About His New Movie “Capitalism: A Love Story”

Prediction Markets: – Capitalism: A Love Story @ Hollywood Stock Exchange – Capitalism: A Love Story @ InTrade – Capitalism: A Love Story @ HubDub Reviews: – New York Times on Capitalism – Google News on Capitalism Interviews: Previously: Capitalism: … Continue reading

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Prediction markets on US political elections: The Financial Times praises InTrade and snubs BetFair.

Financial Times: Politics has won InTrade a lot of publicity [*], but its core markets are financial. [**] In Britain, politics tends to be the concern of companies that otherwise focus on sport. [***] [*] The Financial Times never mentions … Continue reading

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What makes people comment like crazy on Midas Oracle? –> ANSWER –> Suspense, Suspense –> John Maynard Keynes

As noticed by our good Doctor Professor Michael Giberson (of Knowledge Problem fame): The appropriateness of the “prediction market” label to an information aggregation mechanism — 39 comments The best way to rank the best ideas coming from the rank … Continue reading

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Marc Andreessen on innovations, entrepreneurs and startups

Marc Andreessen, Founder of Ning, Opsware, Netscape and the Creator of Mosaic, provides his insight to entrepreneurs at Startup School 08.

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Predicting the entrepreneurial future via hanging out in university research labs

Download this post to see the video. Your feed reader (e.g., Google Reader) does not show the video to you. Marc Andreessen:

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Will collective intelligence mechanism AskAgent.com “revolutionize the world”?

Via the iPredict guy, AskAgent.com: Collective Intelligence Made Easy There are Q&A sites. There are crowd-sourcing sites. There are social networks and search engines. There are even paid query sites. But there is only one Ask Agent. That’s because we’ve … Continue reading

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“Google Project 10^100″ harnesses the wisdom of crowds.

As Emile et al. are debating the SAVE program, Google has announced today the launch of Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. The result is the list you see … Continue reading

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Deep Throat’s take of Emile’s take of the SAVE AWARD program

Emile’s idea is a half-beauty contest, but if Emile thinks the OMB officials have expertise that won’t be swayed by the crowd, then the original SAVE AWARD process was half-good as well. The officials would be able to count the … Continue reading

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