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Is research scientist David Pennock easily impressed? — [TEST IT FOR YOURSELF]

http://corporate.crowdpark.com/ http://blog.oddhead.com/2011/05/11/crowdpark-review/

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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

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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

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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.

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Betable – Bet on anything. Bet with your friends.

Betable – Bet on anything. Bet with your friends. Via Sean Park

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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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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.

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Smarkets.com launch

Smarkets Where is the second part of this video?

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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

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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

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