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Yahoo! Confab Kaput

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Mat Fogarty and Leslie Fine are speaking at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston.

Enterprise 2.0 – Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – 2009-06-22~25
The Promise of Prediction Markets [*] #e2conf33
When will the product really ship? How much will we sell next year? While accurate forecasts are a cornerstone of a well-run enterprise, the methods to arrive at those forecasts haven’t changed in decades. Prediction markets offer the ability to tap the [...]

Inkling Administrator Conference is live on Twitter.

Arik Johnson is twittering it.
#inkling
And the event is being video-tapped… —stay tuned to Midas Oracle.
P.S.: The Inkling workshop is a regret-free conference.

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Inkling Administrator Conference on May 7th, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Adam Siegel is twittering it.
#inkling
Best wishes to Inkling Markets for their workshop. It will be a rich event, and no-one will have “regrets” about it.

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Inkling Administrator Conference on May 7th, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Inkling Administrator Conference on May 7th, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Adam Siegel:
There won’t be any sales pitches or windy academic talks.
I like that.
And their price ($79) is reasonable —contrast it with the $400 that the clown charges for “sales pitches” and “windy academic talks”. I highly support and recommend this Inkling workshop. However, [...]

Global Horse Race Betting Exchange

Mark Davies of Betfair will attend the Standardbred Wagering Conference, at Caesars Windsor from Tuesday, April 28 – 29, 2009. He will sit on the “Life After Pari Mutuel Wagering?” panel.
It is to be hoped that Davies will make some headway with regard to promoting the notion of a global horse race betting exchange, [...]

“Entrepreneur” is a French word, Nate.

Nate Kontny of Inkling Markets – @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. – 2009-02-25

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Robin Hanson’s nemesis on prediction markets

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On tomorrow’s The Oracle show run by Max Keiser, Joseph Stiglitz (on his way to Davos) talks about prediction markets.
Check the BBC World News website for local times.
I will re-publish the YouTube videos on Saturday. Check this space.
In 2003, Joseph Stiglitz used the words “absurdity” and “mockery” when [...]

The hype is over. The party is over. — Part III

O’Reilly Conference ditches prediction markets, and then declares itself dead.
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Nate Silver at TED 2009

TED 2009

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