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David Pennock August 15th, 2008

Cross posted from Oddhead Blog.

We’ve just added a new feature to Yoopick especially for Frenchmen Chris and Emile and citizens of nineteen other countries to place their swagor* on how many medals their country will win.

We’ve argued that the Yoopick interface is useful for predicting almost any kind of number, and since medal count is indeed a number, we thought we’d give it a try.

Besides, Lance told us it would be a good idea.

Sign up, play, enjoy, and don’t forget to tell us what you think!

Thanks,
Sharad Goel
David Pennock
Dan Reeves

* Scientific wild-ass guess, on record

Yoopick: Olympic medal count: Select

Yoopick: Olympic medal count: France: Make pick

Tags: event derivative markets, Olympic Games, Olympic medals, Olympics, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, YooPick

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Chris F. Masse July 6th, 2008

I understand that YooPick is a FaceBook application, but I’d like to know what these people are talking about, and in what context they link to Midas Oracle, and what they expect to find out on Midas Oracle when they click on the Midas Oracle URL. Natural curiosity for an intrepid webmaster like me.

Makes me think of what some IT bloggers said… that they now get more daily referrals from social networking websites (like Twitter, FriendFeed, FaceBook, or LinkedIn) than from Google Web Search.

(That’s not the case with Midas Oracle. For your information, on week days, we receive about 350 daily visits from people using Internet search engines.)

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So, if you could answer my interrogations, please, e-mail me.

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YooPick for FaceBook

YooPick @ FaceBook

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PS: Yet another hit for Robin Hanson’s MSR. - MSR is only step one in his world domination plan.

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UPDATE: Mystery solved.

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Chris F. Masse July 3rd, 2008

If US laws were gambling compatible, would a FaceBook betting application solve the chicken-and-egg problem that any brand-new prediction exchange is facing? (Short sellers will come to the exchange only if there are enough backers, who will come only if there is enough liquidity, etc.) Could MySpace, FaceBook and LinkedIn (who have registered people by the millions, already) provide a starting launch for future prediction exchanges?

YooPick for FaceBook

YooPick @ FaceBook

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PS: Yet another hit for Robin Hanson’s MSR.

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