Category Archives: Software

BetFair’s glitch ruins a set of £23m prediction markets. — [LINKS]

BetFair’s official statement. The British press on the disaster. Via Mark Davies.

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BetTornado is the first sports trading app for the iPad. –> It connects to BetFair though their API. — [SCREENSHOTS]

The iPad app is completely free and has no advertising. The app is available in the following countries: Australia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden and … Continue reading

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Great interview of WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg

The interviewer asks all the good questions.

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InTrade simulates event derivative trading on your iPhone.

Play-money prediction markets. For your 6 y/o.

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David Pennock wants you to believe that InTrade needs Robin Hanson’s automated market maker.

“Our market maker automatically adjusts its level of liquidity depending on trading volume. Prices start off very responsive and, as volume increases, liquidity grows, obviating the need to somehow guess the ‘right’ level before trading even starts.”

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BetFair App for iPhone only works for Great Britain and Ireland. – [SCREEN SHOTS]

More. – http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/betfair-client/id347621336

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Prediction Markets APIs

Are our betting exchanges’ APIs programmable? Fred Wilson insists on read/write APIs (#5). Any comments?

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MAT FOGARTY FOR PRESIDENT

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BetFair App for the iPhone and the iPad –> BetFair Rattle

As I understand it, BetFair has one iPhone App for the British bettors (only). And they’ve just released a new one (BetFair Rattle), also only for the UK Apple App Store. BetFair: BETFAIR LAUNCHES FREE IPHONE APP FOR FOOTBALL FANS … Continue reading

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CrowdCast + SAP

Business Objects + Prediction Markets

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