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Tag Archives: social betting
Is research scientist David Pennock easily impressed? — [TEST IT FOR YOURSELF]
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CrowdPark = social betting – [VIDEO]
The CrowdPark team have tested their social betting model in Germany, and they are now opening an office in San Francisco to boost their US expansion. You can bet with a virtual currency, and their business model is to monetize … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Collective Forecasting, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged Betting, betting markets, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, CrowdPark, event derivative markets, event futures, Martin Frindt, play-money betting, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, social betting
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Smarkets want you to believe that they are going after a much bigger betting market than BetFair’s one.
Their CTO (Hunter Morris) is the first to present in the video. Watch out for his slide on casual and social betting. Startups Rally – Part I – Elevator Pitches (4 of 4) from Plugg Conference on Vimeo. Download this … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Exchanges & Markets, Gambling
Tagged BetFair, Betting, betting market, casual gambling, casual gaming, Gambling, Internet bettting, Internet gambling, Smarkets, social betting
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Social betting In Italy –> vedrete.it
I am told that vedrete.it is similar to nostradamical.com, with a stricter method, though: they don’t show results in advance; they ask twice to predict, one before knowing the results, one just after, to learn the differences.
Betable – Bet on anything. Bet with your friends.
Betable – Bet on anything. Bet with your friends. Via Sean Park
The next wave of prediction market sites will be based on FaceBook.
FaceBook is the future of the peer-to-peer applications. Watch this Thread video, and while you are watching, try to imagine what it could mean for P2P betting (what we call “prediction markets”). Thread.com in less than a minute from Thread.com … Continue reading
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Tagged Betting, betting markets, event derivative markets, FaceBook, prediction markets, social betting, Thread
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Smarkets was created because their founders felt that BetFair was lacking social features.
Smarkets video: Spot the intro by Jason Trost. Smarkets Launch Party from Smarkets on Vimeo.
Posted in Betting, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged BetFair, Betting, prediction markets, Smarkets, social betting
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Smarkets.com launch
Smarkets Where is the second part of this video?
FanDuel (by HubDub) is launched exclusively thru TechCrunch UK, which is, of course, upbeat on its future. Here’s a more critical take.
HubDub is a huge success in term of Internet popularity (pageviews, time spent on the site, etc.). However, HubDub has no business model, other than trying to get bought up by some bigger fish. Which is why Nigel Eccles and … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Business & Economic Models, Entrepreneurship, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet Strategy, Regulations
Tagged baseball, Betting, business models, FaceBook, FanDuel, fantasy baseball, fantasy football, fantasy leagues, fantasy sports, football, HubDub, Internet Marketing, Internet Strategy, marketing strategy, Nigel Eccles, social betting, social games, social gaming, TechCrunch UK, Twitter, Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, Unlawful Internet Gaming Act of 2006
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BetFair USA in Silicon Valley is building a social betting website.
CNN Money: The plan is to build a technical team that can combine that television property with a brawnier website, which can stream live horse races to viewers and add all the social media bells and whistles, including Twitter feeds, … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet Strategy, Regulations, Software
Tagged America, BetFair, BetFair US, BetFair USA, Betting, betting exchanges, betting markets, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Silicon Valley, social betting, social media, The Sporting Exchange, United States Of America
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