Tag Archives: Internet

Why you should *not* install your business in Monaco

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

The Principality of Monaco (“une principauté d’opérette”) is not a place to do business: – Monaco has a single ISP, which has a legal monopoly. So, when that ISP is down, all the businesses are barred from operating online. Impossible … Continue reading →

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Guide for Bloggers and Non-Profit Organizations About Writing With Libel in Mind

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Guide for Bloggers and Non-Profit Organizations About Writing With Libel in Mind

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Dependency —not

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Here is a couple of ideas for Sean Park, who is just emerging from an Afghan cave: – Buy the brand-new Apple Macintosh MacBook Pro 17″ —I’ll get mine in 2 weeks. – Get used to connect to the Internet … Continue reading →

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt at Bloomberg on the Future of Technology

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Chris F. Masse
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Few people write up blog posts, but many read them (“scan-read” them, more exactly). That’s true for both Midas Oracle and the Blogosphere as a whole.

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse
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Subscribe to a blog about politics or sports, and automatically, the feed reader would insert links and charts from InTrade, TradeSports, BetFair, etc. —when and where it is appropriate to enrich the posts.

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

That’s what this mashup service would do —I’m speculating a bit.

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Google Chrome (part OS, part browser) is a game-changing information technology that the prediction market companies will have to adopt ASAP.

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Chris F. Masse
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Google Chrome is the future socle of the prediction markets.

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Google Chrome, a new browser, will power our prediction market applications, inside the browser tabs, in the future. Mike Linksvayer has created a PDF file of the Google Chrome brochure. NEXT: Our follow-up post on Google Chrome

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How Midas Oracle got started off…

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Chris F. Masse
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73% of journalists [*] sometimes or always use blogs in their research.

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

[*] = newspaper, magazine, TV, radio, and web journalists Editors & Publishers Via Henry Blodget (who is hilarious, as always) – Implications for the field of prediction markets (InTrade-TradeFair, BetFair-TradeFair, Betdaq, HSX, NewsFutures, Inkling Markets, etc.): The P.R. arm of … Continue reading →

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