Tag Archives: Yahoo! News US Political Dashboard

Yahoo! News ditch the political prediction markets.

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The Yahoo! News US Political Dashboard was over-sold to us. We thought that Yahoo! News would promote the prediction markets. They did that for a very short period of time, but then they quickly back-pedaled, for some unknown reason. The … Continue reading →

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InTrade CEO John Delaney is so happy that Yahoo! News has endorsed his illegal prediction exchange [*] that, if you asked him right now, he could lay an egg.

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

See him here trumpeting his rational exuberance. External Link: Yahoo! News US Political Dashboard – (See also the Midas Oracle Dashboard.) [*] as opposed to the legal Iowa Electronic Markets, the play-money NewsFutures (which our good doctor Pennock assessed the … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Election 2008 Political Dashboard

Posted on December 17, 2007 by David Pennock

(Cross posted from Oddhead Blog.) I’m happy to report the launch of the Yahoo! Election ’08 Political Dashboard. Using the dashboard, you can navigate through a wealth of election-related data, including prediction market data from intrade.com, polling data from Real … Continue reading →

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DAVID PENNOCK’S YAHOO! ENDORSE IRELAND-BASED, ILLEGAL, REAL-MONEY PREDICTION MARKETS.

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

UPDATE: Someone points to me that there is no hyperlink between Yahoo! News Dashboard and InTrade. Indeed.

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