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Excerpts of the BetFair’s answers to their traders’ questions
About the new bet-matching logic:
It’s not clear why you believe that the majority of those customers who use Betfair’s forum are unhappy about the introduction of the improved matching logic. The sport this will most significantly benefit is football [soccer], and there’s nothing we’ve heard from our football customers that would suggest they’re unhappy, nor [...]
How InTrade-TradeSports and BetFair-TradeFair should reach out
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Fred Wilson (a famous NY-based venture capitalist, a “VC”):
Really think about if you need that $15,000 a month PR firm. – There are some really good PR firms out there and if you can get one of them to work with your company, then it may be worth considering it. But a mediocre PR firm [...]
WordPress is a bit like WikiMedia (the software powering Wikipedia), now.
Two weeks ago, I was seeking a WordPress way to have multiple authors for a post or a page. I found 2 interesting plugins.
The CO-AUTHORS plugin, which does what it says. One specific post or page can be assigned two or more co-author(s) by the blog editor. Very interesting. (I don’t get why the plugin [...]
Midas Oracle readers = information workers
Bill Gates (the head of the Evil Empire):
The skills you need to succeed
One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker. [...]
I also place a high value on having a passion for ongoing learning. When I was pretty young, I picked [...]
BOMBASTIC CLAIM: Today’s prediction markets are far from being efficient.
[The IEM prediction] markets were not even weakly efficient.
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Hillary Clinton – IEM vs. Linguistic analysis of news articles
Rudy Giuliani – IEM vs. Linguistic analysis of news articles
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NEXT: Reading the Markets – Forecasting Prediction Markets By News Content Analysis
MENTAL HEALTH EXPERTS: INKLING HOBBY IS GOOD FOR ENERGY ECONOMIST MICHAEL GIBERSON.
The New York Times:
Carol Kauffman, an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School: “When you’re really engaged in a hobby you love, you lose your sense of time and enter what’s called a flow state, and that restores your mind and energy.” [...] “That positive emotion builds your cognitive and social skills. If you follow [...]
TradeSports has not enough liquidity and is too much dependent on human market makers.
That’s the conclusion I draw from reading this long complaint from Todd Griepenburg —who felt that a market maker left him high and dry.
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