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US Patent Office patents Amazon’s one-click shopping cart. — Will it impact our Web-based prediction exchanges?
US Patent Office patents Amazon’s one-click shopping cart.
Mike Masnick disproves.
Any impact for the prediction market / betting market industry?
BetFair’s Mark Davies, who started blogging on New Year’s Day 2010, has yet to learn two or three things about search engine optimization.
Like putting up his damn name in the title tag of his blog…
Google Search fuels on keywords (and reputation).
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BetFair at the Crunchies 2009
BetFair was one of the gaming sponsors at the Crunchies 2009.
Games were “free to play” at the after-event party (at SF’s City Hall). Donations to UCSF were welcomed.
If you were there, please comment below.
Prediction market blogger quits InTrade.
Ben Shannon:
New Year Update
Posted by Jesse Livermore on Sunday, January 3, 2010
I’ve been gone for a while. There just hasn’t been that much happening on Intrade, and I’ve been focusing on neuroscience.
Intrade has definitely gotten tougher over the past year. I think the 2008 election drew in a lot of people who weren’t very good [...]
InTrade has a higher PageRank than BetFair. No change.
Google has just updated its external PageRank servers. (The PageRank is updated internally in a continuous way, but Google updates its external servers once a quarter or so.)
- InTrade is 7/10. BetFair 6/10. HSX 6/10. HubDub 6/10.
- BetFair’s blog (Betting @ BetFair) is 5/10, proving, once again, that it is a mediocre publication run by [...]
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.
The future of the prediction markets is on the smartphones.
If you don’t get that, you have nothing to do in the prediction market industry.
Nigel Eccles’s wife wears the pants.
Lesley Eccles answers questions about FanDuel and HubDub.
Google Search now personalizes everyone’s search results.
- Search Engine Land
- Google Blog
–> Read those 2 stories. This is important.
Should a blog run ads?
Robin Hanson’s web stats (the drop came following his ditching of his co-authors):
He has asked whether his readers would allow him to have ads. I left a comment, there.
Blog Herald:
3 Odd Reasons Why I Don’t Read Your Blog
- ADS. I find that the types of ads a blog runs is quite telling. The blogger that [...]
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