Monthly Archives: December 2009

The Apple Tablet looks like a bigger iPhone that sports an awesome UI packed in a beautiful 10.1-inch screen.

“The tablet combines the functions of both netbook and kindle, an ebook reader. It has virtual keyboard for text entry and a webcam for video conferencing.” More info at TechMeme

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CrowdCast CEO Mat Fogarty on how his company is helping businesses make better-informed decisions [VIDEO]

Good questions, good answers: Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com Download this post to watch the video —if your feed reader does not show it to you. External Links: – CrowdCast – CFO Prediction Market – Matt Fogarty’s twitter … Continue reading

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The unsavory and dangerous practice of financial firms betting against their clients needs to be thoroughly investigated.

New York Times editorial against Goldman Sachs and the other financial firms. Humm. I agree that some practices are evil, but do the NYT know that hedging is good?

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Don’t let the best leaves the boat.

Jeffrey Harris, the chief economist at the CFTC who last year said he could find no direct link between speculation and high energy prices, is leaving the agency.

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Platforms, markets, and bytes

Sean Park: Download this post to watch the video —if your feed reader does not show it to you.

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The iPod Touch is the future of the prediction markets.

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If he had balls, Robin Hanson would debate Paul Hewitt, instead.

Paul Hewitt: The Essential Prerequisite for Adopting Prediction Markets It is a long text, so I will post again about it, in the near future. (Happy Xmas, by the way.) ADDENDUM: Saturday, January 16, 2010: Debate between Robin Hanson and … Continue reading

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Robin Hanson’s futarchy is “retarded”.

Saturday, January 16, 2010 Debate between Robin Hanson and blogger Mencius Moldbug about futarchy, “a subject on which fur has flown over the blogosphere.”

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Jed Christiansen is not dead.

He is working at Google as “a Strategic Partner Manager in the EMEA Reseller team”. Another proof that prediction markets don’t put food on the table of their most ardent advocates.

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Algorithms that execute thousands of trades per second

Automated transactions executed at lightning speed

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