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- Interview with Adam Lashinsky — [VIDEO]
- Why some people are more innovative — [VIDEO]
- Forbes editor deciphers Steve Jobs’s Apple. — [VIDEO]
- Jason Ruspini rebuts Eric Zitzewitz on the regulation of political prediction markets. — [COMMENT]
- Eric Zitzewitz petitions the CFTC in favor of real-money prediction markets about politics. — [TEXT]
- Global warming is a big scam. — [LINK]
- A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors — [VIDEO]
- The Tragedy of the Commons — [VIDEO]
- Guy Kawasaki on Steve Jobs — [VIDEO]
- Inside Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
- Apple Education Push — [LINKS]
- Water Crystals — [DOCUMENT]
- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
- Computers thru time — [CHART]
- NASA has finally understood the theorical basis of LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions). — [VIDEO]
Tag Archives: usability
Google+ is just another Google Wave: Cool, but too complex. — [LINK]
Evaluation. Conclusion.
Posted in Inventions & Innovations
Tagged connections, Google, Google Wave, networking, People, social connections, social networking, usability
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Usability take of the day for collective forecasters
“It’s time to show most passwords in clear text as users type them.”
Posted in Internet Usability
Tagged Internet Usability, Jakob Nielsen, masking passwords, passwords, usability
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The Fox… and the Hedgehog
Emile Servan-Schreiber looks like the fox to me. He acknowledges a reality: the prediction market adoption problematic. (Leslie Fine is in the same boat.) Okay, but I want more proof. How come Inkling Markets administrators seem to be happy with … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchanges & Markets, Mechanism Designs, Psychology
Tagged accuracy, CrowdCast, Emile Servan-Schreiber, fox, hedgehog, Information Aggregation, inkling markets, Leslie Fine, NewsFutures, non-trading mechanisms, prediction markets, trading, trading mechanisms, usability
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P2 = a revolution in blogging
As I told you the other day, I am very impressed by P2, a new interactive WordPress theme. I have not selected it for Midas Oracle (I chose WP FrameWork), but I think that P2 will influence a lot of … Continue reading
What prediction markets can learn from Twitter — REDUX
S-I-M-P-L-I-C-I-T-Y + C-U-S-T-O-M-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N Twitter is a very simplistic core. Around that core is a whole ecosystem that adds value to Twitter. You have a large choice of “Twitter clients”, and there are plenty of websites out there that complement the … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet Usability, Inventions & Innovations, Software
Tagged design, Internet design, Internet Marketing, Internet Usability, marketing, prediction markets, simple, simplistic, Twitter, usability, web design, web marketing, Web usability
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What prediction markets can learn from Twitter
S-I-M-P-L-I-C-I-T-Y If betting and trading were as simple and elegant as twittering (think of it as the anti-BetFair case), then we would be able to convert the whole Planet Earth to using and checking prediction markets —providing that prediction markets … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet Usability, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged design, Internet design, Internet Marketing, Internet Usability, marketing, prediction markets, purple cow, purple cows, remarkable products, simplicity, Twitter, usability, web design
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The Iowa Health Prediction Market is usable for the probability seekers.
Iowa Health Prediction Market Swine Influenza Prediction Markets I like how they use icons, and the way they display probabilities on that page. It is clear, and we can get the info real quick. Emile tells me that IHPM was … Continue reading
Simpler Input Mechanisms
I really like what Emile Servan-Schreiber replied to Robin Hanson. I really like it. However, if I am correct NewsFutures never implemented MSR, so how can Emile be so affirmative? Rather, I would like to hear from Mat Fogarty or … Continue reading
Smarkets want to attract bettors that are (allegedly) scared to death by BetFair’s complexity.
Smarkets TechCrunch Geek’n Rolla Pitch from Smarkets on Vimeo. Download this post to see the embedded video above —if your feed reader doesn’t show it to you. Smarkets – Blog post
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet Usability
Tagged BetFair, Betting, betting exchanges, bettors, complexity, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, Internet Usability, Jason Trost, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, simplicity, Smarkets, traders, trading, usability, videos
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Amazing smart little things… that will *never* make it to the market.
The first video shows you a smart ass from MIT that invented unusable smart little things. It is truly awesome to watch. The problem is that, even thought the HCI looks cool, these amazing smart little things obey to rules … Continue reading