Monthly Archives: February 2011

Why Adam Siegel’s CityPosh won’t take off – [PREDICTION]

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

It is too complicated.

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InTrade traders are predicting that Barack Obama will win the 2012 presidential election. – [PREDICTION MARKET CHART]

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

InTrade CEO John Delaney on CNBC (January 25, 2011). [Download this post to watch the embedded video, if your feed reader does not show it to you.] Barack Obama re-election prediction market:

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Peter Thiel makes fun of Warren Buffett’s dated investing. – [VIDEO]

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

Bloomberg TV.

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John Stossel on banned sport betting – [VIDEO]

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Chris F. Masse
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2 PDFs from the Kauffman Foundation – [STUDIES]

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

- 2011 State of Entrepreneurship Address. – Rules for Growth.

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InTrade CEO John Delaney apologizes for the ‘Mubarak Departure’ prediction market scandal. – {Mubarak Market Unwound} – [VICTORY]

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

Chris Van Niekerk (yesterday, February 7, 2011): John, I am calling on you to fix this problem before the story spreads outside of this forum [*] and takes on a life of its own. [*] Last week, Midas Oracle offered … Continue reading →

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Internet-based encyclopedia Wikipedia is 10 years old. – [VIDEO]

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

Jimmy Wales: What he thinks of Quora at 7:30… he doesn’t think much of it: ADDENDUM: Jimmy Wales on the “wisdom of crowds”:

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You need the f*c*i**g Flash technology to see the Google Art Project. – [RANT]

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

http://www.googleartproject.com/ TAKEAWAY: 1. Google lied to us when they said they are now focusing on HTML5. 2. Don’t buy an iPad yet. Buy a state of the art (big screen, big pixel resolution) computer (Mac, hopefully). ADDENDUM: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Google_Art_Project

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The InTrade ‘Mubarak Departure’ scandal is on top of Google Blog Search. – [SCREENSHOT]

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

FINAL UPDATE: InTrade CEO John Delaney apologizes for the ‘Mubarak Departure’ prediction market scandal. – {Mubarak Market Unwound} – [VICTORY]

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InTrade try to clean up the mess, without acknowledging their mistake. – [OPINION]

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

“Intrade has listed a number of new markets related to the actual departure of President Mubarak.” What a shame. InTrade is managed by a bunch of incapable incompetents. FINAL UPDATE: InTrade CEO John Delaney apologizes for the ‘Mubarak Departure’ prediction … Continue reading →

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