Midas Oracle .ORG » sites http://www.midasoracle.org Prediction Markets, etc. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:20:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Knowns and unknowns of the 2012 presidential elections — [LINK] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/11/10/knowns-and-unknowns-of-the-2012-presidential-elections-link/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/11/10/knowns-and-unknowns-of-the-2012-presidential-elections-link/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:58:37 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=27408 Continue reading →]]> “We gather information from a variety of sources (some of which are themselves information aggregators), including prediction markets, polls, web search, social activity, games, and historical precedent, and combine it together to produce a Consensus Prediction that is as unbiased, accurate, and timely as we can possibly make it.”

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/signal/

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/11/10/knowns-and-unknowns-of-the-2012-presidential-elections-link/feed/ 0 Do webpages with higher PageRank rank higher than webpages with lower PageRank? — [VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/08/12/seo-pagerank-internet-sites/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/08/12/seo-pagerank-internet-sites/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:07:09 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=26398 [Download this post to watch the video if your feed reader does not show it to you.]

SEO Moz:

Wistia

Midas Oracle’s homepage is proud to have a PageRank of 6/10.

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More.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/22/new-york-times-is-going-to-fail-big-time-chart/feed/ 0 Great interview of WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/12/03/wordpresss-automattic-matt-mullenweg/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/12/03/wordpresss-automattic-matt-mullenweg/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:45:19 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=22086 The interviewer asks all the good questions.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/12/03/wordpresss-automattic-matt-mullenweg/feed/ 0 BetFair apologizes to Niall O’Connor… and the other traders affected by the site outage. http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/01/28/betfair-site-outage/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/01/28/betfair-site-outage/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:53:07 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=20296 Continue reading →]]> BetFair Forum:

Betfair would like to apologise for the unplanned site outage that occurred earlier this afternoon [Monday, January 25, 2010]. The cause of this problem is currently being investigated by our technical team. A list of affected markets will be posted shortly [here].

Once again please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Will it be enough for Niall?

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Awesome.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/26/wgoogle-webmaster-central-tool-hacked-sites/feed/ 0 Google Commerce Search + Google Checkout = a shopping cart for your site http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/05/google-commerce-search-google-checkout/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/05/google-commerce-search-google-checkout/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:54:29 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=18991 Google Commerce Search + Google Checkout = a shopping cart for your site

http://www.google.com/commercesearch/

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/05/google-commerce-search-google-checkout/feed/ 0 How do traders like (or dislike) the new Hollywood Stock Exchange? http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/23/traders-hollywood-stock-exchange/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/23/traders-hollywood-stock-exchange/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:35:02 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=15580 Continue reading →]]> Hollywood Stock Exchange

Don’t expect Alex Kirtland to ask the tough and harsh questions, of course. (Our good friend Alex sells web usability services. His goal is to make friends.)

The main bit of criticism seems to be that the new website is too slow. That is addressable.

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