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Have you tried Timetric? Like it? Use it?

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 1, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Timetric
Timetric Byline
What I don’t like: The smart charts don’t go into blog feed.
Do you have remarks about his service? Useful? Not useful?
Comment below or e-mail me —or Twitter me.

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BetFair’s chart widgets don’t go into feeds.

Written by Chris F. Masse on July 29, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Why the fuck would bloggers embed BetFair’s chart widgets if their blog readers can’t see these charts when using feed readers (like Google Reader)?

Once again, we can see plainly the incompetence of the BetFair team when it comes to blogging. They don’t have the first clue. In spite of my blogging and e-mailing this issue [...]

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BetFair’s crappy chart widgets

Written by Chris F. Masse on June 28, 2009 — Leave a Comment

They are crappy because they don’t go into feeds —contrary to InTrade and NewsFutures’s chart widgets.
BetFair’s crappy chart widgets were crafted by DeLuxe Corporation. Yet another web service provider to avoid.

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InTrade and BetFair make it impossible for me to show you the expired charts on the Oscars 2009.

Written by Chris F. Masse on February 23, 2009 — Leave a Comment

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UPDATE: Correction. Even though the Oscars 2009 is now a past event (it is midnight time, Pacific Time), InTrade has the prediction markets listed in their live section. Bizarre. They are still open. I wonder whether that means that InTrade is in such a dire situation that they cannot afford anymore to have Irish employees [...]

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The BetFair chart on the Super Bowl XLIII (2009) puzzles one of the Midas Oracle readers.

Written by Chris F. Masse on February 3, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Barry O:
Is this a knockout comp? The graph looks too mathematical to be anything else.
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Barry O:
If the teams are knocked out of the competition (or mathematically have no chance) then thats going to improve the probability of the other remaining teams. I.e. 8 equal teams would have a 12.5%, 4 get knocked out and the [...]

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HubDub chart widgets

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 15, 2008 — Leave a Comment

HubDub should tell the bloggers who want to embed their chart widgets in posts that the WordPress blog authors who are neither administrator nor editor should ask for their account to be updated so as to be enabled to publish “Unfiltered HTML”. (The WordPress administrator would do such an account update thanks to the “Role [...]

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The one thing you didn’t know about NewsFutures because our good doctor Servan-Schreiber never came on Midas Oracle to tell it.

Written by Chris F. Masse on November 24, 2008 — 1 Comment

Each NewsFutures prediction market can display a “graphical order book”:

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Cute.
Congrats to Emile and his team for this.
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Problem with the Inkling Markets chart widgets

Written by Chris F. Masse on November 19, 2008 — 2 Comments

When inserted in a WordPress blog post, they create a perturbation in the force —the size of the font of the webpage they are implemented in is slightly augmented. Case in point: look here, and spot the augmented horizontal menu bar.
No more Inkling Markets chart widgets on Midas Oracle until:

this problem is solved;
their chart widgets [...]

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The Inkling Markets chart widgets are un-usable —unlike NewsFutures and HubDub’s ones.

Written by Chris F. Masse on November 6, 2008 — Leave a Comment

They do not go into feeds.
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Regrettably, I never quoted Inkling during the last 2008 US presidential elections for that reason —and because I am not sure about the reputation of the people who expire contracts.
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BetFair’s chart widgets are a total nuclear disaster. BetFair should apologize publicly for this shame.

Written by Chris F. Masse on November 5, 2008 — Leave a Comment

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Technical Note: The stuff above is a screen shot from my “predictions” webpage.
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My previous post on the charting systems of the prediction exchanges —and BetFair in particular
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