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Tag Archives: Mike Robb
BetFair’s guerilla marketing on General Election 2010 – [VIDEO]
Mike Robb: The “betometer” concept was poorly conceived. However, overall, it is a good tactic. It is a win.
UK’s General Election 2010
Hung Parliament. Here’s a 10-days old video of BetFair’s Mike Robb at the Beeb:
Posted in Betting, Collective Forecasting, Exchanges & Markets, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Predictions - Forecasts
Tagged BetFair, betting markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, forecasts, Great Britain, Mike Robb, Politics, prediction markets, Predictions, UK politics, UK's General Election 2010, United Kingdom
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Mike Robb takes charge of the BetFair Bureau at New York.
BetFair won’t release any public press release on all this, but they told me this: Following Stephen Burn’s taking over BetFair US leadership, Mike Robb will be sent in New York to open a new “BetFair Bureau”, from which he’ll … Continue reading
Mike Robb’s blog on PR, media, betting exchanges, and other British things (mint sauce on red meat, etc.)
http://crowdedvoice.com/ When he is not reading Midas Oracle, Mike Robb works at BetFair on the Right2Bet campaign —as you all know.
Posted in Resources - References
Tagged BetFair, blogs, Crowded Voice, Mike Robb, Right2Bet
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Londoners (among them many faithful Midas Oracle readers) go voting today. Spot, in the first chart, that British political betting expert Mike Smithson serves some (IMPLIED) PROBABILITIES EXPRESSED IN PERCENTAGES to his readers —and not those fu***ng fractional odds, or those equally fu***ng digital / decimal odds.
- Boris Johnson, next mayor of London: – RELATED: BetFair’s “percentage vote share” prediction markets are illiquid, alas. – BetFair blog’s London page — Tabloid style. I don’t like it much. I think politics should be treated more seriously. Mike … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Politics
Tagged Bath, BetFair, Boris Johnson, Bristol, decimal odds, digital odds, elections, event derivative markets, event derivatives, fractional odds, Google, Ken Livingstone, London, mayor, Mike Robb, Mike Smithson, New York Times, percentages, prediction markets, probabilities
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Not a single Google Reader user has subscribed to the politics section of the 9-month-old BetFair blog (which features Mike Robb and the self-infatuated “BetFair Prof”, commenting on the political prediction markets). NOT A SINGLE ONE.
See at the bottom of this screen shot. – - And note that their posts on football, tennis and politics are not published as feed. (See the “0.0 posts per week” notice.) -
Huge quality improvement (well, considering that they started from 1,000 meters below the sea level) in the BetFair blog, lead by their resident prediction market guy, Mike Robb
The guy has shown commitment. Look at the semi-long list of posts he has produced. The guy has finally understood that people want red meat —dynamic charts (i.e., self-updating) that link to the said prediction markets. I observe, in passing, … Continue reading
Meet Mike Robb of BetFair and the BetFair blog (the “prediction markets” section).
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Tagged BetFair, BetFair blog, Michael Robb, Mike Robb, prediction markets
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BetFair-TradeFair (slightly) improve their blog, finally (it was about time) —and open 2 new sections: “prediction markets” and “financials”.
Here’s the vertical menu of the BetFair blog. Scroll down until you see “Politics”, and “Prediction Markets”. – - Here’s their section on politics: – Here’s their section on finance: – - My thoughts: Their “about” page still does not … Continue reading
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Tagged America, author, BetFair, BetFair blog, Clinton, David Jack, David Pennock, Editor, Eric Ziztwitz, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Finance, Google, informed BetFair trader, InTrade, Justin Wolfers, KING, Lance Fortnow, Leighton Vaughan-Williams, Michael Robb, Mike Robb, Paul Tetlock, prediction exchanges, prediction market approach, prediction market journalism, prediction market writer, prediction markets, Professor, Robin Hanson, Search Engine, search engine spiders, TradeFair, TradeSports, United Kingdom, web-literate internationalist, writer
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