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Why I unsubscribed to John Delaney (InTrade) and Jed Christiansen at Twitter

I try to “follow” as many prediction market people on Twitter as I can (click on “following”), but I had to unfollow these 2 persons because: – I like Jed a lot, but he often tweets about his private life. … Continue reading

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Some thougths about Amazon.com

- They are testing Twitter. I would look at the Twitter presences of Tim O’Reilly, StarBucks and NakedPizza for ideas on how to use Twitter. In my view, the StarBucks idea to have one Twitter journalist/blogger inside StarBucks reporting from … Continue reading

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The Twitter Book

The Twitter Book – by Tim O’Reilly et al. The Twitter Book – A Sneak Preview View more presentations from oreillymedia.

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So far, the Prediction Market Industry Association (PMIA) is a shallow organization run by a bunch of delirium-tremens incompetents. — It sounds too European, too French. — Yeah, it’s too French. — All words and no actions. — Hot air in a golden-painted balloon ready to burst.

Prediction Market Industry Association’s goals as stated last year: 1) Create a central, standardized registry of available prediction stocks and contracts from different prediction markets. This open central resource will help demonstrate the wide coverage of available predictions, facilitate search, … Continue reading

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NewsFutures’ hyper marketese on their prediction market consultancy and software package for enterprise prediction markets

NewsFutures: Top-10 reasons why NewsFutures is the ideal partner to harness the wisdom of your crowd 1.) Integrated Solutions We offer complete solutions, not just great software. This approach delivers a much higher success rate and enables the client organization … Continue reading

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The network knows what the nodes don’t.

Roger Ehrenberg: Prediction markets and elections, run by Eric Zitzewitz of Dartmouth. Eric ran though a slew of data looking at sports and financial prediction markets and compared it to election prediction markets. Bottom line, sports and financial prediction markets … Continue reading

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LinkedIn will be data-mining its database of millions of users to find potential experts.

Tim O’Reilly

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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 … Continue reading

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Blogger’s Code of Conduct

Gee, Tim O’Reilly is quite serious about that.

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