Tag Archives: Web services

Section 2.3 (k) of the BetFair API agreement says you can’t make a product which promotes any other prediction exchange. That’s evil, because it means we will never have any multi-exchange, order-entry and analysis software package for (real-money and play-money) prediction markets.

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

BetFair: TERMS AND CONDITIONS Software Vendor Special Terms: [e.g. waivers of prohibitions, consents, rights to use trade marks subject to guidelines, added warranties and/or indemnities and variations to the standard terms generally] (1) Subject to the due performance of his/her/its … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Software | Tagged analysis software, analysis software packages, API Permissioning Services, BetFair, Breaching Party, Chancellors Road, computer software, data owner, developers, duly authorised officer, entry-order software, faster access, GBP, Hammersmith Embankment, HTML, individual software application, Initiating Party, London, lost advertising, manager, normal banking, particular software application, prediction markets, prospective buyer, similar officer, skilled and experienced contractor, software applications, sub-contractor, The Sporting Exchange Limited, third-party applications, United Kingdom, User, Wales, Web services, Web Services Definition Language, web-formatting scripts, www.betfair, www.betfair.com, XML | 4 Comments

Mat Fogarty’s Xpree needs a mini Chris Hibbert.

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Company: Xpree – prediction market software Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Description: Xpree is a leader [*] in providing software to enable corporations to tap their collective intelligence.Â Using prediction market based technology , Xpree’s solution is a fun game … Continue reading →

Posted in Jobs - Careers - Hiring | Tagged architect, Chris Hibbert, DOM, engineer, experienced Software Engineer, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Prediction Market Software, prediction markets, Python, Ruby, Senior Software Engineer, United States, Unix system, web servers, Web services, XML, Xpree, XSLT, years software | 1 Comment

The truth of the source code

Posted on August 5, 2007 by George Tziralis

Call it Occam’s razor, minimization of information entropy, or just KISS principle. Call it ‘less is more‘, usability or just common sense. The question is, are the currently available prediction markets web services compliant with the era of attention economics? … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Exchanges & Markets, Information Technology, Software | Tagged HTML, Occam, Web services | Leave a comment

Screenshot of a Second Life Chat about Amazon Web Services

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

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Amazon Web Services provides developers with direct access to Amazon’s robust technology platform.

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Via Mister David Pennock, Amazon S3: Welcome to Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services provides developers with direct access to Amazon’s robust technology platform. Build on Amazon’s suite of web services to enable and enhance your applications. We innovate for … Continue reading →

Posted in Information Technology | Tagged Amazon Web Services, David Pennock, Web services | Leave a comment

Incite the free-market thinkers into practicing prediction markets.

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Which objective(s) should have the highest priority? 23 Responses – Generate revenues and profits for Midas Oracle. 4 / 23 – Make Jason Ruspini quit whining about the fact that he blogs on Midas Oracle for free. 1 / 23 … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Industry), Inventions & Innovations, X Groups, X Universes | Tagged content management system, finance experts, George W. Bush, Hal Varian, internet democracy, Jason Ruspini, media/blog organizations, media/blogs, San Diego, the Star, Web services | 4 Comments

Should prediction market firms use blogs?

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

BusinessWeek on McKinsey’s global survey: [...] Only 16% of the companies surveyed said they were investing in blogs, compared to 63% for web services, 28% for peer-to-peer networks, and 19% for social networks. 78% identified web services as the Web … Continue reading →

Posted in Information Technology | Tagged content management system, David Perry, event derivative traders, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HTML, HTML editor, identified web services, media people, prediction markets, Social Networks, technology/tool, Tennessee, web publishing, web publishing tool, web publishing tools, Web services | Leave a comment

10 Ways To Make Money On The Internet

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Stephen Eddy: 1. Offer your professional expertise in an online marketplace. 2. Sell photos on stock photography sites. 3. Blog for pay. 4. Or start your own blog network. 5. Provide service and support for open source software. 6. Online … Continue reading →

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged blog network, Build services, Internet Stephen Eddy, Online life coaching, online marketplace, open-source software, Stephen Eddy, virtual gold farmer, Web services, web workers | 1 Comment

Google Reader vs. Yahoo! Pipes

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

I have raved many times here about Google Reader, so today it’s fair that I give a link to Yahoo! Pipes. (Especially since I said many times that My Yahoo! is complete crap.) I have not tested it yet —and, … Continue reading →

Posted in Information Technology, Resources - References | Tagged engineer, Google, JavaScript, Jeremy Zawodny, manipulation tools, Mike Linksvayer, online data sets, online data sources, Pipes, Unix, utilities using pipes, Web services, Yahoo! | 1 Comment