Author Archives: George Tziralis

About George Tziralis

Doctoral Researcher - National Technical University of Athens - Greece, E.U.

GIGO and prophets, tears and markets

Posted on January 11, 2008 by George Tziralis

Prediction markets failed to accurately predict the unexpected effect a few tears had on the New Hampshire primaries; and some analysts rushed to blame the tool and undermine its reliability and applicability. Let me restate some fundamentals and my view, … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, All Guest Authors's Posts, Analysis (Meta), Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Explainers | Tagged accuracy, cent, Collective Intelligence, event derivative markets, event derivatives, markets, New Hampshire, prediction markets, wisdom of crowds | Leave a comment

50 askmarkets invites for Midas Oracle readers

Posted on December 4, 2007 by George Tziralis

Aiming at providing high-quality prediction markets services, both of unique elegance and zero learning curve, we plan to start deploying by going deep. And by deep we don’t refer to techcrunch, or walmart (yet), but to the biggest active community … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Consulting, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Software | Tagged Ask Markets, AskMarkets, prediction markets | Leave a comment

ads, auctions and markets: a proposal

Posted on November 14, 2007 by George Tziralis

Ads make the web go round. US internet advertisement expenditure is expected to surpass $21 billions in 2007, while the share of web ads in the UK is already bigger than ad spending in radio and newspapers. More specifically, adwords … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Economics, Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged accessible real estate costs, ad spaces, adrank algorithm, ads, Google, internet advertisement expenditure, Microsoft, screen real estate, Search Engine, site owner, United Kingdom, United States, USD, web ads, Yahoo! | 1 Comment

The truth of the source code

Posted on August 5, 2007 by George Tziralis

Call it Occam’s razor, minimization of information entropy, or just KISS principle. Call it ‘less is more‘, usability or just common sense. The question is, are the currently available prediction markets web services compliant with the era of attention economics? … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Exchanges & Markets, Information Technology, Software | Tagged HTML, Occam, Web services | Leave a comment

The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets Workshop starts today.

Posted on May 21, 2007 by George Tziralis

In a few hours, the workshop The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications starts at Palm Desert, California. The quality of presenters is excellent and the workshop has succeeded in attracting high level contributions. The program … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, All Guest Authors's Posts, Analysis (Meta), Betting, Economics, Gambling | Tagged Andrew Leigh, Athens University of Economics and Business, Australian National University, Bob Erikson, California, Chris Wlezien, Columbia, Columbia University, Eric Zitzewitz, Feng Zhou, George Mason University, Hebrew University, Iowa, Jakob Bergfjord, Joyce E. Berg, Justin Wolfers, National Football League, New York University, Norwegian School of Economics, Palm Desert, Pennsylvania, Philip O'Connor, prediction markets, Raphael Markellos, Ricard Gil, Robin Hanson, Ryan Oprea, Santa Cruz, Stanford University, Stefan Luckner, Steve Levitt, Temple University, Tom Gruca, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Chicago, University of Iowa, University of Karlsruhe, University of Pennsylvania, University of Waikato, University of Westminster, Vasiliki A. Makropoulou, World Cup, Yahoo! | 1 Comment

Hybrid Prediction Markets

Posted on April 27, 2007 by George Tziralis

Adam highlights the inevitability of prediction markets’ integration with CRM/ERP systems. Bo leads discussion to the right direction. I’d like to speculate further on Bo’s first point. The integration with business intelligence software, corporate data warehouses and document indexes will … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, All Guest Authors's Posts, Analysis (Industry), Analysis (Meta), Exchanges & Markets, Inventions & Innovations, Software | Tagged Adam, business intelligence, business intelligence software, CRM, data mining meta-algorithms, hot business applications, Institute of Prediction Markets, machine learning, market-based meta-algorithm | 4 Comments

An Extended Literature Review on Prediction Markets

Posted on November 1, 2006 by George Tziralis

Dear Midas Oracle readers, I’m happy to report you the findings of my latest work, which has been accepted for publication in the inaugural issue of The Journal of Prediction Markets and is entitled as Prediction Markets: An Extended Literature … Continue reading →

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