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Predictify is about building track records of human predictors.

Robert Scoble interviews their CTO.
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Predictify is not a prediction exchange. We think prediction markets are superior to polls and surveys, don’t we?
With Predictify, the mechanism delivering the collective verdict is simplistic: it’s a poll —with possibility to get down to each individual answer.
Their conversation is very interesting, nevertheless —in great part due to [...]

Rorie Devine, BetFair’s CTO, leaves by “mutual consent” —whatever that could mean.

Heck.
LinkedIn: Rorie Devine
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UPDATE: More info…
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THE BLOG POST THAT WILL RUIN THE MOOD OF NATHAN KONTNY, THE INKLING MARKETS CTO.

Rails Is A Ghetto.
This is exactly what makes Rails a ghetto. A bunch of half-trained former PHP morons who never bother to sit down and really learn the computer science they were too good to study in college.

The Hollywood Stock Exchange lost its CTO, three months ago.

BetFair’s awards to its best IT suppliers

NetApp, Fortify, and Sun MicroSystems
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They don’t say whether the CTO only voted, or all the techies.

Meet Maurice Balick, the NewsFutures and Bet2Give co-founder.

Maurice Balick, CTO of NewsFutures and Bet2Give

Meet David Yu, BetFair’s then CTO.

Picture taken in 2004, when David Yu was BetFair’s CTO. (He went on to be COO and then CEO.)

David Yu at LinkedIn

Citizen Journalism = Crap — Group Blog = Good — Wiki News = Good — Commercial Wikis = Good

Our Mike Linksvayer:
I’m not going to link to any offenders, but my consistent observation [*] is that nearly all “citizen journalism” sites fall somewhere between spam blog and crappy community of suckers. If you feel the urge to provide people with a platform to “do” community journalism, don’t. You’re not needed (see below). If you [...]

Our Mike Linksvayer ranks #3.

Our Mike Linksvayer is the CTO of Creative Commons. I see today that the Creative Commons blog ranks #3 according to Technorati.
So, I went to the Creative Commons blog, and I will tell you something: This site is very usable and very interesting. I’m so impressed. Mike Linksvayer is a magician. It’s pure beauty.
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