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Last Update: Sat Apr 12 11:27:30 2008 | | + CommerceNet Internships -- Summer 2008 +
We are offering a couple internship positions at CommerceNet this summer. CommerceNet is an entrepreneurial research institute, [...] with Cleveland or Tufte principles would be a bonus Email cn-hr@commerce.net with questions or cover letter and resume. |
| + Commuknity +
A goal of many new Web "2.0" ventures is to build a large or at least persistent community. Success is difficult to measure, but [...] list checker " page up just so that an impatient person can see how many people are in line to get accounts before he or she does. |
| + Attacks on Vidoop Authentication +
A new authentication scheme was announced recently at the Web 2.0 Expo: Vidoop http://www.vidoop.com . Vidoop describes itself as [...] and shares many of the same vulnerabilities. In particular, Vidoop is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack in which the attac |
| + Needed: Web 2.0 hackers +
A longer, though not necessarily more accurate job description, can be found here . ... |
| + Open Source, Open Standards +
I've been told in the past that Open Source and Open Standards are practically the same thing, they go so well together. While they're [...] IPR concerns, and proliferation of standards ("The good thing about standards is, there's so many to choose from" - ref ). |
| + EMail Standards Waves +
A month ago at the last IETF meeting, I talked to a bunch of email standards experts about the current wave of Internet email [...] support and authentication features for IMAP and SMTP . SASL was added to SMTP in 1999 although didn't get put into IMAP unt |
| + What compliance means to an engineer +
I've been seeing the word "compliance" tossed around a lot for HTTP and other standards lately, with much ambiguity. Let's say you [...] probably published after the client was written. The important question to ask is whether a new feature or requirement is backwards |
| + A Skeptic's View of Identity 2.0 +
I signed up to do a talk called " Beyond Passwords " at ApacheCon US 2006, which took place in Austin last week. I had originally [...] that is considering relying on some 3rd-party to authenticate and identify its users - on how to evaluate the benefits and the costs. |
| + CalDAV to Proposed Standard +
I am very pleased to announce that an effort I've spent nearly three years on is becoming an IETF Proposed Standard. CalDAV will ... |
| + [Lisa Dusseault] Introducing myself +
As my first The Now Economy post, I thought I'd introduce myself and what I do. I just joined CommerceNet as a Fellow a couple [...] of deployed and useful implementations of new standards), so I was very happy to accept this position and enjoy doing it so far. |
| + Gambling Bill doesn't cover Prediction Markets +
The Internet Gambling Act (HR4411) that passed the House earlier this month is a curious compromise. There's been a lot of [...] they pass something, and if there are any differences between the House and Senate versions, anything can happen in reconciliation. |
| + Increasing Liquidity in Multi-Outcome Claims +
Previous articles have described a few simple formats of prediction market: simple double auctions , markets with open-ended prices [...] the temperature in San Jose be on August 27th?) into a series of discrete choices. I'll talk about those kinds of markets later. |
| + Collective Intelligence +
MIT's Center for Coordination Science has recast itself as the Center for Collective Intelligence . Tom Malone (who spoke at the New [...] their final locations. cci.mit.edu still has the old center's pages, while the new center is at learning.mit.edu. If the links move |
| + Zocalo Release for Windows +
In response to a couple of requests for installation help, I spent most of the week figuring out how to install under Windows, and how [...] number of visits is good. Thanks for your interest. I plan to keep improving Zocalo; I hope to justify your continued interest. |
| + New Zocalo Release: Accounts and Transaction History +
I released a major new version of Zocalo on SourceForge yesterday. This release is the one I've been targeting as good enough for [...] details to traders. I will also do some cleanup and simplification of the order entry form, since I've alrady had a request for that. |
| + Individual Prediction And Prediction Markets +
Eliezor Yudkowsky has written a good review on individual biases for a volume assessing the possibility of global catastrophic risks [...] in this area are particularly clear and usually directed to an audience that might not have thought carefully about reasoning. |
| + The Future of Zocalo +
CommerceNet has been very generous in funding my work on Zocalo for more than a year. From the beginning, it was proposed as an [...] been through here. We had some great interns last summer, and are expecting more this summer. I can't talk about all the companies tha |
| + Chicago Prediction Market Summit +
I'm joining the roster at the Chicago Prediction Market summit. I'll try to explain how Zocalo can improve the prospects for [...] as well as perenials John Delaney (from Tradesports), David Perry (Consensus Point), and Emile Servan-Schreiber (NewsFutures). |
| + Some VC and Research Lab links +
It's a Friday afternoon, and I'd like to clean up my desktop with a list o' links I've found interesting over the past few weeks: [...] SkyBlue calls its class of software ready-to-run (R2R) and has launched a portal site, itCasting, to promote collaboration on R2 |
| + Market Design: Book and Market Maker +
There are two basic ways of handling incoming orders: keeping standing orders in a book against which market orders can be entered, [...] shares are available below that price, then some could be purchased above the price as long as the average price for the order is belo |
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