Tag Archives: www.betfair.com

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 →

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BetFair’s Global Warming Prediction Markets

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

As you have seen, Niall O’Connor posted about BetFair’s Global Warming prediction markets, yesterday, Wednesday. I searched the Web and couldn’t find their announcement. So I e-mailed Robin Marks (the Head of the Media Department at BetFair), and he was … Continue reading →

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The definitive proof that Emile Servan-Schreiber, the NewsFutures CEO, is an essential part of the world-wide conspiracy aiming at silencing BetFair.

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

[This post is filed in the "humor" category, of course. ] — Take a look at the blogroll of the NewsFutures blog, which cites everybody but BetFair: Recent Posts UC Riverside’s eLab eXchange : featuring Competitive Forecasting and Idea Pageants Demise … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Humor | Tagged collective intelligence networks, Emile Servan-Schreiber, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Los Angeles, Mike Giberson, NewsFutures CEO, Odd Head, prediction markets, reporter, Republican Party, Ron Paul, RugBY League, sports betting, United States, Washington D.C., www.betfair.com, Yahoo! | Leave a comment

Hanson’s Market Scoring Rule Explained in Five Sentences, Why Betfair Gets So Little U.S. Press Coverage, and other Half-Baked Commentary by Michael Giberson

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Michael Giberson

[Chris Masse invited me to submit to an email interview. I’m responding here to Chris’s questions, rendered in italics below. I'm not sure that anyone other than Chris will be interested, and half-way through he may regret this idea himself. … Continue reading →

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BetFair vs. TradeSports-InTrade

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

“Anonymous” to Patri Friedman (thanks to Jason Ruspini for the link): Have you tried Betfair? www.betfair.com . Chris Masse over at Midas Oracle www.midasoracle.com — the main prediction markets blog — tends to support them over InTrade. The interface is … Continue reading →

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Recent enhancements to the BetFair site…

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

- The BetFair Promo site guides you visually thru the latest site changes. – And this is some blablating about the changes. — OK, I got it now. – The main site www.betfair.com is for orientation, only. – The speculators … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged analysis software, BetFair webmaster, horse racing, Internet usability rules, order-entry software, United States, www.betfair.com | Leave a comment