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In a blow to the French, BetFair choose Bastille Day to premiere the revised version of the bet-matching logic of their prediction markets. — IMPROVEMENT MEANS BETTER LIQUIDITY FOR THEIR EVENT DERIVATIVE TRADERS.

- BetFair: Improvements to Betfair’s bet matching logic today, Monday 14th July: What’s changing? We’ve improved the code that matches bets. As well as matching backs against lays as we’ve always done, we’ll also try to match your bet against … Continue reading

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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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Section 2.3 (k) of the BetFair API agreement says you can’t make a product which promotes any other prediction exchange. That’s evil, because it means we will never have any multi-exchange, order-entry and analysis software package for (real-money and play-money) prediction markets.

BetFair: TERMS AND CONDITIONS Software Vendor Special Terms: [e.g. waivers of prohibitions, consents, rights to use trade marks subject to guidelines, added warranties and/or indemnities and variations to the standard terms generally] (1) Subject to the due performance of his/her/its … Continue reading

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Enterprise Prediction Markets … Without Office Politics

- Google’s Bo Cowgill, as reported by IT Business: [...] If you let people bet on things anonymously, they will tell you what they really believe because they have money at stake. This is a conversation that’s happening without politics. … Continue reading

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FREE BO COWGILL. CALL IN JOHN RAMBO.

- Our testosteroned Grandizer [JOKE] is trapped in communist China: Sadly, I’m not able to read the announcement on the Google Analytics blog thanks to the Great Firewall. I’m in Shanghai until the end of the month with Google. – … Continue reading

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News Aggregation + Prediction Markets

On Wednesday, January 30, 2008, at 9:00 AM PST (12:00 PM EST; 5:00 PM GMT; 6:00 PM CET), dollar-thirsty Nigel Eccles (pictured above) will be introducing HubDub at DEMO 2008 (one of the best IT conferences, along with eTech, LeWeb, … Continue reading

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Markets for Telling CEOs to Step Down

Robin Hanson (back in April 1996): One of the biggest problems with existing corporate capitalism is keeping CEOs (chief executive officers) accountable to their shareholders. Unaccountable CEOs can give themselves huge salaries and perks, discriminate freely in hiring and promotion, … Continue reading

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Inkling’s Dead Radiohead Market

Radiohead’s pick-your-own-price experiment, industry redefining move, publicity stunt for their album “In Rainbows” has had its 15 days or so of fame. Is there anybody out there still caring? Maybe not. In fact, judging by Inkling’s own Radiohead prediction market, … Continue reading

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BetFair’s brand-new trading interface – WEB EXCLUSIVE

Who will be the next manager of England’s soccer team? — Technical Note: You can access the prediction market chart by clicking on the tiny icon you can spot at the left of each name. — Option One (the default): … Continue reading

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Fantasy Sport: The only way to crack open the US betting/gambling/gaming market… LEGALLY.

Wikipedia: A fantasy sport (also known as rotisserie, roto, or fairy-tale sport; or owner simulation) is a game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by individual players or teams … Continue reading

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