Tag Archives: administrator

Commenting on Midas Oracle

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

As you know, some people commenting here told me they went into trouble, even when they were logged in. I found out why. The anti-spam plugin “WP Spam Free” does not exempt registered blog users from its anti-spam checking. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Information Technology, Midas Oracle Administration | Tagged administrator, anti-spam plugins, author, BadBehavior, comment, commenters, commenting, comments, JavaScript, spam, spamming, WordPress, WP Spam Free | 4 Comments

NewsFutures presidential widget

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

NewsFutures Widget Source: NewsFutures widget Bet2Give Widget Source: Bet2Give widget [Technical Notes: The NewsFutures and Bet2Give widgets do not appear in the blog feed. For your information, my blog is powered by WordPress.org. I’m the administrator. The Exec-PHP plugin is … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged 2008 US elections, 2008 US presidential elections, administrator, Hillary Clinton, InTrade, John McCain, NewsFutures, PHP, Politics, prediction markets, US elections, US politics, US President, US presidential elections | Leave a comment

Bet2Give Presidential Widget —REDUX

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

It works, finally. — Bet2Give Presidential Widget – You can customize it. Excellent. If you want to insert it in a WordPress.org-powered blog post (like Midas Oracle), you should disable the visual editor, during the insertion of the code lines. … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities, Software | Tagged administrator, Bet 2 Give, Bet2Give, event derivative markets, event derivatives, JavaScript, prediction markets, visual editor, widget | Leave a comment

Bet2Give Presidential Widget

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Bet2Give Presidential Widget – You can customize it. Excellent. If you want to insert it in a WordPress.org-powered blog post (like Midas Oracle), you should disable the visual editor, during the insertion of the code lines. And I bet you … Continue reading →

Testing the Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin… and thinking aloud about a prediction market plugin.

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

UPDATE: I have completely re-written this blog post. I have just found out (at the bottom of a FAQ, which was itself linked from the bottom of a page!) that the Yahoo! Shortcuts only works when the WordPress rich, visual … Continue reading →

Posted in Information Technology, Midas Oracle Administration | Tagged administrator, California, David Pennock, Google, Mountain View, raw editor, Rich, visual editor, WordPress, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Shortcuts | Leave a comment

Please, make WordPress a bit like Wikipedia.

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Folks, here is my proposal to the WordPress developers: Assign a great number of editors to some specific pages Right now, if you are an editor in WordPress, you can edit any posts and pages. Hence, the administrator of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Information Technology, Prediction Journalism | Tagged administrator, Collective Intelligence, Editor, Google, Internet citizens, James Surowiecki, open-source software, Wikipedia, wisdom of crowds, WordPress | 21 Comments

Inkling Free Pilot Program

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Adam Siegel

We try not to post directly about our platform or new clients on Midas Oracle, leaving it up to Chris to highlight the good… and the bad … but we thought people might be interested in a new capability we … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged administrator | Leave a comment