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Posting On Midas Oracle versus Presenting At The Third WorkShop

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

MIDAS ORACLE: 1,600 daily readers (600 visitors on the Web + 1,000 feed subscribers) THIRD WORKSHOP: 40 people in the room. – [Psstt... All the links to the presented papers... here.] – Ratio: 40 to 1. There are 40 times … Continue reading →

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BAD KARMA FOR PREDICTION MARKET JOURNALISM: Almost nodoby has linked to Justin Wolfers’ articles at the Wall Street Journal.

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Considering that he is the #2 researcher in our field, that he issued bold statements on the use of market-generated predictions by journalists (“2020″), that the WSJ is the premier business publication, then that’s bad omen for prediction market journalism … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Prediction Journalism | Tagged event derivative markets, event derivatives, Justin Wolfers, prediction market journalism, prediction markets, researcher, The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, WSJ | Leave a comment

The Marketing Of The Reading Of The Public Prediction Markets = What Robin Hanson has deep trouble with, and what the prediction exchanges (e.g., InTrade-TradeSports, BetFair-TradeFair) haven’t fully computed yet

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Robin Hanson on “silly” research topics: [M]ost people think futarchy (government by [prediction] markets) is silly, even though most think it has a decent chance of performing well [...]. – Decision markets and decision-aid markets are 2 great concepts … Continue reading →

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Independent production company seeks deep throats to spill beans on online poker industry and BetFair Poker.

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Betting Market: I am a researcher employed by a leading award winning UK based independent production company, that specialises in factual programmes. We are currently researching the online poker industry, for a forthcoming documentary that will look at the broader … Continue reading →

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Prediction markets are the best way to tap into the wisdom of crowds.

Posted on November 25, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Swarm Creativity Blog: Thursday, April 26, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Peter Gloor, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, moderator Listening in … Continue reading →

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Spectrum has a long article on prediction markets.

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Bet on It! – (page two – page three + a crappy listing of exchanges) – by Steven Cherry In August 2004, Todd Proebsting, a researcher in Microsoftâ€™s platform and services division, was approached by a manager in the companyâ€™s … Continue reading →

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Meet Jay Hopman of Intel Corporation.

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Jay Hopman: Using Forecasting Markets to Manage Demand Risk Jay Hopman Lab/Group Name: Intel IT Job Function: Researcher, Enterprise Process Optimization Bio [...] He joined ISTG Research in 2001 after working in IT Product Engineering, Business Operations, and Strategy & … Continue reading →

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InTrade Volume Anomalies

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Alex Forshaw, some researcher in economics we know, and some other traders have noticed an abrupt and inexplicable 50% increase in volumes, around the day of the TradeSports-InTrade split. (And that’s not “an augmentation”, Condi Rice-style, that’s really an “increase”. … Continue reading →

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