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Is NewsFutures the world-wide world’s market leader, really?

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

I would recommend against that kind of bragging, because it could fire back at NewsFutures if, one day, we get to learn that another consultancy firm (Consensus Point or Inkling Markets or else) has reached the top. In that scenario, … Continue reading →

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Hanson’s Market Scoring Rule Explained in Five Sentences, Why Betfair Gets So Little U.S. Press Coverage, and other Half-Baked Commentary by Michael Giberson

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Michael Giberson

[Chris Masse invited me to submit to an email interview. I’m responding here to Chris’s questions, rendered in italics below. I'm not sure that anyone other than Chris will be interested, and half-way through he may regret this idea himself. … Continue reading →

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How can BetFair, the world’s market leader, produce such a piece of ****?

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Betting @ BetFair – The Official BetFair News Site — … is a piece of ****. #1. The brand name of this sub-site is crappy. #2. The organization of the content is crappy. #3. The content is crappy. #4. Everything … Continue reading →

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The BetFair betting blog = a piece of shit

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

[image removed -- see comments] Via Niall O’Connor of Betting Market, the official BetFair betting blog. #1. Unusable, unconventional layout and interface. #2. Unsigned, crappy content. — Kind of reinforce my view that a firm cannot become a media company … Continue reading →

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Chris Masse is bull-shitting. On the paper, NewsFutures is OBVIOUSLY the market leader.

Posted on July 22, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

That’s what all the people thought, after I published my ranking. The NewsFutures clients: The world’s largest steel maker. CORNING Display Technologies. Japan’s largest advertising firm. Hungary’s leading news weekly. Voted “most innovative” pharmaceutical company in Fortune‘s 2003 and 2004 … Continue reading →

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Plenty of new socially valuable prediction markets at InTrade.

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

InTrade seems to take its role as market leader for US political prediction markets very seriously. Since its official splitting with TradeSports, InTrade has opened many interesting prediction markets on legal, political and geo-political issues. — National Leader Departure Markets: … Continue reading →

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Addendum on… The ranking of the providers of software for internal prediction markets

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Hello Midas Oracle readers, As you have seen, I have published a ranking of the prediction market solution providers to the Fortune-500 firms. It is a ranking based on what I know about their true client list —not what is … Continue reading →

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The ranking of the providers of software for internal prediction markets

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Ranking of the prediction market solution providers to the Fortune-500 firms. North America #1. NewsFutures #2. Inkling Markets – growing very fast #3. HSX Virtual Markets Europe #1. NewsFutures

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Emile Servan-Schreiber on learning on Midas Oracle that NewsFutures is no longer the market leader in North America as a software provider for internal prediction markets.

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Although I maintain my statement, this blog post is filed in the “humor” post category —and I know that EJSS likes humor. More serious info on this topic soon…

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Prediction exchanges should be commercial enterprises and make big profits.

Posted on December 11, 2006 by Chris F. Masse

Over there, at Overcoming Errors dot com (where the main error is to ban marketing), Peter McCluskey pitches prediction exchanges as the cousins of the think tanks, and says that the most socially relevant form of prediction markets should be … Continue reading →

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