Via mister Bo Cowgill The New Republic – Some British betting bloggers are completely out of the loop. – UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan on Hillary Clinton’-s exit statement. (He liked it.) UPDATE: InTrade forum thread. – InTrade – Democratic Vice President … Continue reading
The topic of this post is: Betting &- Information – – #1. Don’-t trade on the VP predictions markets. I have stong reservations about those VP prediction markets. Only 2 men in the world know what is going to happen: … Continue reading
UPDATE: Bo tells us: “-Actually, that’s my desk right behind him, in the top picture.”- – –– Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and … Continue reading
While Robin Hanson was busy signing Bob’-s petitions and blablabling on philosophy, Jason Ruspini answered the questions. Jason Ruspini (”-The Brain”-) has established himself as one of the experts in the field of prediction markets. Listen up. – 1-2) These … Continue reading
Tom W. Bell, Please, watch this short video, and get yourself a gravatar. It’-s easy and fun. – – The little difference between Midas Oracle and Chris Pirillo’-s blog is that he set up things so that when somebody does … Continue reading
UPDATE: – To be kept updated on the prediction markets, go to the frontpage of Midas Oracle, or click on the InTrade tag. – Here are the expired contracts about the Democratic vice presidential nominee (Joe Biden). – Here is … Continue reading
Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitwewitz – 2008-01-06 – Via Daniel Horowitz (Business and Technology Consultant) Blip.TV —- (FLV file) – … Continue reading
– The image above is static —-it’-s a screen shot of the chart widget, not the chart widget itself. (I haven’-t had access to their code, see, so I am not able to embed it here for you.) To view … Continue reading
– Simplistic enough. Sounds more like a promotion trick than a real game. The Sporting Exchange has outsourced the development of this game (and others) to a Swedish team. The Swedish people won a “-multi-year”- contract. I don’-t understand which … Continue reading
– He didn’-t sign Bob’-s petitions. He is experienced. He is well versed into prediction markets and journalism. Just after HubDub’-s inception, he realized they fucked up their chart widgets. Five months later, they managed to correct that birth defect. … Continue reading
