Monthly Archives: October 2009

Let’s use Google Wave to interact with all the prediction market fanboys.

chrisfmasse ++++++AT++++++ googlewave )))DOT((( -com- I am trying to learn how to use Google Wave. First impression: Very weird. For the Google Wave invite, I thank Martin Frindt of http://www.crowdpark.de/. UPDATE: Jed says I will get the invite wave in … Continue reading

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Boycott the $400 vendor conference on prediction markets.

I renew my call for boycotting the $400 vendor conference on prediction markets. Don’t pay $400 to listen to prediction market software vendors. (They should pay you $400, rather, to listen to their marketese.) They highly exaggerate the usefulness of … Continue reading

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WordPress well above DruPal and Joomla!

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Finland + Australia

Finland: Australia:

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Super Freakonomics — Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner — The Follow-Up On Freakonomics

Super Freakonomics — Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – (co-authors of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics) DeLong on Super Freakonomics Next: HarperCollins is preventing bloggers to criticize Super Freakonomics by cutting off free access to excerpts of the book via … Continue reading

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Rep. Barney Frank talks Wall Street reform.

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Midas Oracle is worth $1 million.

- PaidContent has a monthly audience of 250,000. – Guardian Media bought PaidContent for $30 million $6.5 million. – Midas Oracle has had 41,000 visitors the last 30 days. – Midas Oracle’s audience is one sixth of PaidContent’s audience. – … Continue reading

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Will Google Wave be used by prediction exchanges (InTrade, BetFair, etc.) and event derivative traders (Jason Ruspini, Carlos Graterol, etc.)?

Google Wave Use Cases

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Rush Limbaugh’s NBC Today Show interview

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Cato Institute Scholar Tom G. Palmer on Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

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