Tag Archives: Yahoo! News

Knowns and unknowns of the 2012 presidential elections — [LINK]

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

“We gather information from a variety of sources (some of which are themselves information aggregators), including prediction markets, polls, web search, social activity, games, and historical precedent, and combine it together to produce a Consensus Prediction that is as unbiased, … Continue reading →

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Yahoo’s David Rothschild scraps market info from InTrade (and BetFair?), does not cite them, and does not link to them. — [UPDATED]

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

David Pennock’s little protégé should receive a crash course about citing sources. C’est minable. UPDATE: David Rothschild e-mails me to say he forgot to link to InTrade and BetFair in that story, at publication time, but he added the links … Continue reading →

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How Bing could kill Google by partnering with news organizations such as the New York Times

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

According to Jason Calcanis… [click here for the debunking of this idea].

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Yahoo! News finally links to InTrade —for legal reasons, not to InTrade .COM (their real-money prediction exchange), but to InTrade .NET (their play-money prediction exchange, which uses an AMM linked to InTrade .COM, without disclosing it to the public).

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- – InTrade .COM – InTrade .NET -

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New Yahoo! News election dashboard

Posted on September 3, 2008 by David Pennock

Cross-posted on Oddhead Blog. The Yahoo! News Political Dashboard has re-launched for the general election stretch run of the 2008 US Presidential election. From the main map you can see the status of the election in every state according to … Continue reading →

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