Tag Archives: Mike Linksvayer

PETA asks Al Gore to stop eating meat — and Glenn Beck agrees.

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Will PETA manage to convince Al Gore to become a vegan (like Mike Linksvayer)? Next: Our Choice = Al Gore’s book on global warming and climate change

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The Singularity University + The Prediction Markets

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Spot the 3 men on the right-side of the photo: – In blue, our good friend Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons; – In red, the Google guy in charge of open-source software; – In grey, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress. So, … Continue reading →

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Do the Creative Commons licenses tell people to link back?

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Mike Linksvayer: Creative Commons licenses (since 2004 and excluding non-license public domain tools) allow the licensor to require a linkback. I consider that the main feature of the ‘attribution’ term. See 4(b) of http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode The easiest way to specify is … Continue reading →

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Question to Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

As a blogger, I don’t care if someone steals my content, and I don’t care if he/she does not cite my fucking name or brand name —as long as he/she links back to Midas Oracle. That way, it tells Google … Continue reading →

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Mike Linksvayer’s networking groups at LinkedIn

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Obviously, this guy has good taste. Here is a sample of the LinkedIn networking groups he belongs to: Here are the links to the networking groups managed by Midas Oracle (“PMs” is the most popular, the others are to be … Continue reading →

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Mike Linksvayer *himself* is to blame for the non-liquidity of his Wikipedia prediction markets.

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Mike Linksvayer: Prior to the Wikipedia community vote on adopting CC BY-SA it crossed my mind to set up several play money prediction market contracts concerning the above outcomes conditioned on Wikipedia adopting CC BY-SA by August 1, 2009, for … Continue reading →

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Mike Linksvayer (middle of the shot) didn’t put on a tie to receive his (deserved) award… and Richard Stallman’s hairdress looks like South Vietnam in the sixties, just after the spraying of Agent Orange and all the bombing.

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Chris F. Masse
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Washington Mutual is seized by the US government.

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- New York Times – Another one bites the dust: (Sorry for those who have a narrow screen and don’t see the right part of this big chart.) – According to InTrade, here are the banks that could fail next: … Continue reading →

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Subsidizing real-money prediction markets and real-money conditional prediction markets

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Should Google subsidize the Lunar X Prize contract on InTrade? John Salvatier, Our good friend Bo Cowgill might have already re-created those prediction markets on Google’s internal prediction exchange at a marginal cost of zero US dollar. No need for … Continue reading →

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GLOBAL WARMING… SOLVED.

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Caveat Bettor, please take a look at that. Mike Linksvayer, please take a look at that. -

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