Tag Archives: New York

IMPRESSIVE: KickStarter is now used to start up big projects. — [VIDEO]

- Let’s build a floating pool for everyone in the rivers of New York City.

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Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, St. Petersbourg, Shanghai, Tokyo, New York and London — [VIDEO]

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New York cultural periodical the Village Voice has named @discographies, an anonymous Twitter account that publishes 140-character reviews of the life work of musicians and bands, as its music critic of the year.

Sign of times. @Discographies.

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Nate Silver rates New York City’s neighborhoods… and Jason Ruspini objects.

Nate Silver rates New York City’s neighborhoods. Jason Ruspini: The piece is problematic insofar as it underweights proximity to areas where people work, which results in high ratings for distant neighborhoods and low ratings for central ones, on top of … Continue reading

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New York’s Guggenheim Museum turns 50.

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Crackdown on Internet gambling and betting

Federal authorities in New York have frozen or seized bank accounts worth $34 million belonging to 27,000 online poker players.

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NewsFutures and the media are hostile to Princess Caroline.

“Caroline Kennedy draws criticism after latest tour.“ More from the Beeb. – - © NewsFutures – Who will fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat? – -

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What InTrade CEO John Delaney told the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets)

John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file): July 4th 2008 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Three Lafayette Centre 1155 21st Street NW Washington, DC 20581 U.S.A. Attention: Office of the Secretariat RE: “Concept Release … Continue reading

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InTrade Spotting — Monday Morning Edition

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Robin Hanson, please, jot down “February 4, 2009″ in your Google Calendar.

O’Reilly’s Money:Tech 2009 – (one session about prediction markets) – New York City, New York, U.S.A. – 2009-02-04~06 – Last year, Robin Hanson was invited as a speaker… but declined. Instead, our Master Of All Universes went to another conference, … Continue reading

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