Tag Archives: Chris F. Masse

If you need to contact me…

Chris. F. Masse’s e-mail address: – chrisfmasse@gmail.com Midas Oracle: – http://www.midasoracle.org/ – @midasoracle

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Let’s use Google Wave to interact with all the prediction market fanboys.

chrisfmasse ++++++AT++++++ googlewave )))DOT((( -com- I am trying to learn how to use Google Wave. First impression: Very weird. For the Google Wave invite, I thank Martin Frindt of http://www.crowdpark.de/. UPDATE: Jed says I will get the invite wave in … Continue reading

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Please, be my friend on FaceBook.

Our good friend George Tziralis has 505 friends on FaceBook. Our good friend Mike Linksvayer has 762. I have only 61. I feel ridiculous. I am sure people laugh at me in my back about that low number. I need … Continue reading

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Why I unsubscribed to John Delaney (InTrade) and Jed Christiansen at Twitter

I try to “follow” as many prediction market people on Twitter as I can (click on “following”), but I had to unfollow these 2 persons because: – I like Jed a lot, but he often tweets about his private life. … Continue reading

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Could prediction markets help solve a crime?

I have been asked many times by Kruijs on HubDub to update people about the prediction markets created about moi. So, here it is. But, first, a little background. Since the beginning of this year, I have adopted a new … Continue reading

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Statement about Midas Oracle

A spat of free publicity for Midas Oracle appeared recently on the PMIA’s e-mailing list, which could be sum up like this: “For the prediction market industry, Midas Oracle is both indispensable and pesky.” I usually don’t comment on what … Continue reading

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The truth about (enterprise) prediction markets

Paul Hewitt: [...] In virtually every case, the prediction market forecast is closer to the official HP forecast than it is to the actual outcome. Perhaps these markets are better at forecasting the forecast than they are at forecasting the … Continue reading

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250 members of the LinkedIn group on prediction markets

- 1. How To Join Us From within LinkedIn, FaceBook, or Google Reader / Google Mail, send me (Chris Masse) an invite and I’ll accept it. You are also invited to join the Prediction Markets group at LinkedIn. We accept … Continue reading

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“Chris F. Masse is a Fraud.”

“Chris F. Masse is a Fraud.” http://www.chrismasse.com/ Via mister Cowgill. UPDATE: The website is down, now. The text has been republished here.

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The truth about prediction markets

Come to the wonderful world of collective intelligence, wisdom of crowds, and prediction markets!… The sun shines bright, the market-generated predictions are vastly superior to the polls as election predictors, and the track record of the public prediction markets stretches … Continue reading

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