Tag Archives: e-commerce

US Patent Office patents Amazon’s one-click shopping cart. — Will it impact our Web-based prediction exchanges?

US Patent Office patents Amazon’s one-click shopping cart. Mike Masnick disproves. Any impact for the prediction market / betting market industry?

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Google Commerce Search + Google Checkout = a shopping cart for your site

Google Commerce Search + Google Checkout = a shopping cart for your site http://www.google.com/commercesearch/

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eBay CEO John Donahoe: “We thought auctions was a religion. Auctions are nothing more than a format.”

eBay CEO Talks about Core Values: Auctions Are Not a Religion.

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Will E-Commerce Sales increase from Q4 2008 to Q1 2009?

UCR’s eLab eXchange It is great to see that they have 537 participants in their IAM. Congrats to them.

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Prediction Markets on your Mobile Phone

Betfair Mobile — BetFair iPhone — Usability review of BetFair’s iPhone website The iPhone does not matter in e-commerce —yet.

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The best researchers on prediction markets

CFM: Scholars Check that CFM page for updates. And contact me so I can make additions to the list. (I’ll then re-publish that updated list on Midas Oracle.) – Michael Abramowicz – Michael B. Abramowicz – (Law School, George Washington … Continue reading

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At Yahoo! Research, Yiling Chen is David Pennock’s right arm on prediction markets.

Yiling Chen — Penn State: Yiling Chen joined Yahoo! Research in 2006. Her research interests are on the border of economics and computer science, including prediction markets, auction theory, and sponsored search. [Yiling] Chen’s current research focuses on better understanding … Continue reading

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HP research scientist Kay-Yut Chen on prediction markets

Kay-Yut Chen — Publications & Conference Papers Kay-Yut Chen and Tad Hogg, “Aggregating Diffuse Information with Subgroups”, in the proc. of IADIS E-Commerce Conf, Dec 2004. Kay-Yut Chen, Leslie Fine and Bernardo Huberman, “Eliminating Public Knowledge Biases in Small Group … Continue reading

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COMING SOON: The Prediction Market Conferences

Prawf Eric Zitzewitz, do you have something to wear, this time?? — Second Workshop on Prediction Markets – (Details) – EC’07 - ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce – @ San Diego, California, U.S.A. – 2007-06-11~15 The Growth of Gambling and Prediction … Continue reading

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Chris Hibbert’s profile at LinkedIn

Chris Hibbert’s profile at LinkedIn Currently building open-source software for Prediction Markets. Experience includes mentoring in OO programming, E-Commerce, Extreme Programming, and Privacy and SSNs.

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