Improving startup virality using prediction markets to estimate failure probability?
Improving startup virality using prediction markets to estimate failure probability?
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Yearly Archives: 2008
WordPress 2.7, the embedded YouTube videos, and the feed readers
This is an update. The WordPress guy came back to me with answers. It is a dual problem: a HTML validity issue and an invalid tag issue in TinyMCE.
- One way to solve the problem would be to use the “-Smart YouTube”- plugin. I won’-t.
- If I embed the YouTube video in the “-HTML”- area, and don’-t click on “-Visual”- before publishing, all is fine —-the YouTube video will end up in the feed reader. I’-ll do that, now.
Whats the point of a painted portrait that looks exactly like a photograph?
Absurd…- and tasteless.
Ugly and pointless American art.
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A political cretin with no taste.
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The year 2008 in pictures -thanks to the Beeb
In the US, a believer in Big Government and Nanny State swept away the neo-con cockroaches from the White House (good riddance):
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In the UK, a conservative bozo (Boris Johnson) took over the City of London:
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The world’-s financial markets experienced a melting debacle:
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And I won’-t mention Bernard Madoff —-the nightmare that keeps on giving.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and Happy Festivus…- anyway.
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The Open Institute Of Prediction Markets
I am (finally) finished writing up the mission statement of The Open Institute Of Prediction Markets.
I have asked Mike Giberson, Mike Linksvayer, and (of course) David Pennock, to give me feedback, so I can see whether I am on the right track or not. If it’-s the case, and once I have integrated their feedback, I will show it to 3 other prediction market luminaries, and so forth, until an ethereal sense of perfection emerges out of it. (Could take weeks.)
Stay tuned.
PS: Google is forbidden to snatch that “-mission”- webpage, don’-t ever think of trying to read the cached webpage.
UPDATE: Got feedback. Need to work on it.
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CFTC-regulated, thinly-traded, all-electronic derivative exchange USFE puts itself for sale.
USFE’-s press release:
U. S. Futures Exchange Evaluating Strategic Alternatives
Sale of Exchange Sought by Year-End
CHICAGO, December 17, 2008 – The board of directors of the U.S. Futures Exchange (USFE), over the last several weeks, has actively sought a strategic sale of its operations, with the goal of reaching a resolution by December 31, 2008.
“We are currently in the process of seeking a strategic investor who can leverage the vision of the USFE market model,” said Bernard W. Dan, chairman, USFE. “As this process moves forward, the marketplace can count on the continued professionalism of the USFE employees who have led a bold vision to pioneer new futures products.”
The board of directors of USFE is made up of 3 independent directors as well as representatives of its three principal shareholders MF Global Ltd., Man Group plc, and U.S. Exchange Holdings, Inc. USFE was formed in 2006 through a capital investment by Man Group plc.
About U.S. Futures Exchange
Chicago-based U.S. Futures Exchange offers specialized products to meet the unique market demands of retail, hedge fund and institutional customers in a fully-regulated, centrally-cleared futures and options exchange. U.S. Futures Exchange was formed in 2006, following a capital investment from Man Group. For further information, visit www.usfe.com.
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More info: Reuters
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