Tag Archives: CTO

Predictify is about building track records of human predictors.

Robert Scoble interviews their CTO. Video – - 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 … Continue reading

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

Heck. LinkedIn: Rorie Devine – 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.

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

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BetFair’s awards to its best IT suppliers

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

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

Maurice Balick, CTO of NewsFutures and Bet2Give

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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

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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