Tag Archives: XML

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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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 →

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I scan 102 feeds and 398 items each day with Google Reader.

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

— – Chris Masse’s shared items at Google Reader – Chris Masse’s XML/OPML file

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Yahoo! Pipes has a GIGO problem.

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

John Ives (formerly of Storage Markets): We experimented with using Yahoo! Pipes with Storage Markets. We created several Pipes to collect and feed market specific content to our traders. [...] [W]hile the Yahoo! Pipes environment appeared to work flawlessly, it … Continue reading →

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You can now search for PREDICTION MARKETS within your Google Reader.

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

BO COWGILL, WE LOVE YOU. — Chris Masse’s Readings – Chris Masse’s shared items at Google Reader – Chris Masse’s list of feeds at Google Reader: XML/OPML file — Previous: Google Reader is a better feed reader than BlogLines. UPDATE: … Continue reading →

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What is the BetFair Exchange API?

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

BetFair Developers Program: The Exchange Application Programming Interface (API) is the tool on which participants in the Developers Program are able to build customised tools and interfaces to use with the Betfair (sports) Exchange. Normally users will read market information, … Continue reading →

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Chris Masse’s list of feeds

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

All the blogs I read. U can “import” any of these two feed listings into your own feed reader (Google Reader, etc.). OPML file â€” XML file â€”

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The Wisdom Of Crowds: James Surowiecki on the predictive accuracy of the horse race betting markets

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

With your permission ( ), I am re-publishing here in one blog post the two comments from James Surowiecki, so the Midas Oracle readers who don’t subscribe to comments can see it. [...] The crowd of bettors at the racetrack … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Betting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Economics, Forecasting (Science & Practice) | Tagged author, Daniel Reeves, DAVE PENNOCK, financial columnist, Google, Herbert Fallin, James Surowiecki, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Niall O'Connor, Royal Statistical Society, The New Yorker, XML | 2 Comments

How to subscribe to James Surowiecki’s column

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

The New Yorker – (just re-designed website ) – The Talk Of The Town – (James Surowiecki is one of the columnists.) Sub-Site Feed: http://www.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/talk.xml – [Partial feed, though. ] Subscribe to “Talk of Town” via Google Reader. Pssttt… James … Continue reading →

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BetFair Site Map

Posted on December 20, 2006 by Chris F. Masse

As you all know, there are two kinds of “site map”: a HTML version (for humans) and a XML version (for search engine robots). For instance, for Midas Oracle: – site map (HTML) – site map (XML) I have just … Continue reading →

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