Tag Archives: John Ives

Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg News’ executive editor for US politics, is the cluelessness incarnated.

He quotes the Vegas and the London bookmaker odds —but not our exchange-generated probabilities. Via John Ives.

Posted in Forecasting (Science & Practice) | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

John Ives of Storage Markets has a personal blog, of course.

I just wanted to give to the Midas Oracle readers the URL of John Ives’ blog, in case some of you want a follow-up to the Storage Markets conversation or need to contact him. Previously: Storage Markets – The True … Continue reading

Posted in Resources - References | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Storage Markets – The True Story – Straight From The Horse’ s Mouth – Second Edition

John Ives: [...] Storage Markets was, what we called, a “semi-private” market. We limited trader registration to those who could convince us, one way or another of their involvement with the data storage segment of the IT industry. Our goal … Continue reading

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Prediction Journalism | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Which software for prediction markets is the best?

John Ives: HSX software certainly has a lot of head room to offer to a relatively small project such as Storage Markets. Given the prediction market software vendors available to us during late 2005, we were very happy with our … Continue reading

Posted in Consulting, Software | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Yahoo! Pipes has a GIGO problem.

John Ives (formerly of Storage Markets): We experimented with using Yahoo! Pipes with Storage Markets. We created several Pipes to collect and feed market specific content to our traders. [...] [W]hile the Yahoo! Pipes environment appeared to work flawlessly, it … Continue reading

Posted in Information Technology | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Storage Markets – The True Story – Straight From The Horse’ s Mouth

John Ives: HSX software certainly has a lot of head room to offer to a relatively small project such as Storage Markets. Given the prediction market software vendors available to us during late 2005, we were very happy with our … Continue reading

Posted in Business, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Storage Markets, powered by HSX, has just bellied up.

Storage Markets: Storage Markets Ends Experiment with Prediction Markets Storage Markets has concluded our evaluation of using a prediction market technique to predict trends and transitions in the storage industry. The results of this experiment suggest that active prediction markets … Continue reading

Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Exchanges & Markets | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Storage professionals from all corners of the storage industry have registered to participate on the Website to trade their opinions and win the game.

InfoStor – Storage Markets predicts storage trends. A 2006 interview: Techrockies: What’s your background, and how did you tow end up starting the firm? John Ives: The company was founded in January, and we went live with a beta in … Continue reading

Posted in Exchanges & Markets | Tagged , , | Leave a comment