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Has BetFair a little part of responsibility in the collapse of the Kieren Fallon trial (which cost British taxpayers £950,000)?
BetFair actively report betting that appears to them out of the ordinary. And, if any sport regulator has concerns, then BetFair provide them with additional information. BetFair, of course, has no say in whether a criminal offense has been committed, and no input into the prosecution (the Crown Prosecution Service).
In the Fallon case (an Irish [...]
The Absence of Teams In Production of Blog Journalism
Justin Wolfers at Freakonomics published the link to an interesting paper, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge” [PDF file]:
The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge
We have used 19.9 million papers over 5 decades and 2.1 million patents to demonstrate that teams increasingly dominate solo authors in the production of knowledge. [...]
FALLON CASE: BetFair lawyer David O’Reilly is not the man… to say the least.
The Guardian:
[...] In part, the fault is Betfair’s, for failing to ensure that police investigators understood the meaning of the complex evidence they provided, and for passing pages of irrelevant data to the Crown that provided one of many early embarrassments for the prosecution. [...]
The senior detective in charge of the investigation, Mark Manning, had [...]
Should Google Analytics have the option for webmasters to make the web stats reports public, for all to see?
I asked that question to Bo Cowgill (the chief of the prediction market group at Google) after reading this New York Times news article (How Many Site Hits? Depends Who’s Counting.), and here’s what he told me (with permission to republish):
Yeah, well that idea is something I’ve been pushing for. There is no easy solution [...]
Creating a Prediction Market on Inkling for the Women’s World Cup was Easy!
We’ve talked about setting up public markets on Inkling here before. I just set up a market for predicting the winner of the Women’s World Cup 2007 tournament, which is kicking off in China this weekend and wrapping up on September 30. (Women’s football/soccer.)
Took me about 45 or 50 minutes, start to finish. [...]
OECD Chief: U.S. Likely to Avoid Major Recession.
Wall Street Journal
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