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Book of Odds is serious fun
In the Book of Odds, you can find everything from the odds an astronaut is divorced (1 in 15.54) to the odds of dying in a freak vending machine accident (1 in 112,000,000). Book of Odds is, in their...
View ArticleYahoo! Key Scientific Challenges: Applications due March 11
Applications for Yahoo!’s third annual Key Scientific Challenges Program are due March 11. Our goal is to support students working in areas we feel represent the future of the Internet. If you’re a...
View ArticleMarch Madness thingnaming: Core 64, True 32?
This year’s men’s college basketball tournament featured four play-in games called the First Four that the NCAA officially designated as the “first round”. They renamed what used to be called the first...
View ArticleIt’s Arab Spring, but is it Prediction Market Winter?
Is the growing prediction market industry graveyard an omen? It’s hard to ignore the accumulating bodies, including, may they rest in peace, PPX, Hubdub, Protrade, Tradesports, Newsfutures,...
View ArticleFBI seizes gambling domain names. Who’s next?
Michael Mitzenmacher recently made a “First they came…” argument, and now I will too. Even if you detest gambling, this should send a chill down your spine: the FBI seized the domain names of several...
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There’s a new oracle in town
Last January, a few friends and I visited the sportsbook at the M Casino in Las Vegas, one of several sportsbooks now run by Cantor Gaming, a division of Wall Street powerhouse Cantor Fitzgerald....
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Crowdpark: Taking Facebook and now Florida by storm
Crowdpark is an impressive, well-designed prediction market game that’s already attracted 500,000 monthly active users on Facebook, the 11th fastest growing Facebook app in April. It’s a dynamic...
View ArticleOn Intrade CEO John Delaney’s death
A few words on the tragic death last May of John Delaney, the founder and CEO of prediction market company Intrade. John died near the peak of Mount Everest, climbing toward one of his life’s dreams...
View ArticleA professional goodbye and a personal thanks to Carol Bartz
My geek CEO was fired. If you’re wondering whether she deserved it, or Yahoo! is better off for it, or Roy Bostock is a doofus or dorfus, I don’t really know.* But I do have a personal story about...
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A professional thanks and a personal goodbye to Steve Jobs
10 Print "Hello" That line typed on an Apple II computer in my Dad’s office in the fourth grade got me hooked on computer programming, an addiction I never outgrew. Over the years, I’ve had the...
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