Prediction Markets + Market Predictions = Collective Forecasting That Pays Off

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Google Reader has just censored Midas Oracle.

I have just published a blog post (The Best Blogging Software (WordPress) + The Top 60 WordPress Plugins) containing a PHP code line. Funny enough, Google Reader has discarded that item for the Midas Oracle feed it republishes. —maybe for security reason (or maybe a dirty trick from Bo “Wet Blanket” Cowgill ).
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Mat Fogarty’s Xpree needs a mini Chris Hibbert.

Company: Xpree – prediction market software
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Description: Xpree is a leader [*] in providing software to enable corporations to tap their collective intelligence.  Using prediction market based technology , Xpree’s solution is a fun game enabling the players to bet on future events and metrics.
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer [...]

And the award for the most technology advanced software vendor goes to… the envelope, please…. QMARKETS in Israel. … [Cheers and applauses in the crowd.]

Via Bo “Grandizer” Cowgill, QMarkets:
Reliable Enterprise-Grade Software
Qmarkets was written from day one as a site for massive use by a large number of users & organizations.
As such, Qmarkets is fully scalable in design (relying on Drupal’s core capabilities), allowing us to easily grow by simply adding more servers to our hosted solution.
Looking for a host [...]

Midas Oracle is the most popular blog network covering the prediction markets and the prediction market industry (and that includes BetFair-TradeFair, TradeSports-InTrade, Google, Consensus Point, Justin Wolfers, Robin Hanson, and the rest of the pack).

Google Analytics web stats for January 2008: Google Analytics January 2008 More on the Midas Oracle web stats. --- Here is the web stats report of my web server of January 2008 (Analog.cx): Successful requests: 1,282,515 Average successful requests per day: 41,382 Successful requests for pages: 415,557 Average successful requests for pages per day: 13,408 Failed requests: 1,252 Redirected requests: 9,537 Distinct files requested: 23,436 Distinct hosts served: 26,547 Data transferred: 13.16 gigabytes Average data transferred per day: 434.81 megabytes --- For your information, the blog census since inception:
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