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Archives for October 2005

The Buzz Factor

by Jeff Hester · Oct 18, 2005

I stumbled upon a great website experiment in prediction markets. I was first introduced the the concept of prediction markets in James Surowiecki’s book The Wisdom of Crowds. What is a prediction market? It’s a speculative market where people buy and sell shares in pretty much anything. It’s been used to predict the outcome of […]

Filed Under: Good things

BigBlueBall Lands on Wikipedia

by Jeff Hester · Oct 15, 2005

While playing around with Gada.be, I discovered that BigBlueBall was mentioned on Wikipedia. It’s a brief mention on a disambiguation page, but it was cool to see that someone had added the not-quite-one-and-only BBB. Thanks, fans!

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It’s Gada.be another Chris Pirillo project

by Jeff Hester · Oct 14, 2005

Gada.be is a new meta-search project from Lockergnome’s Chris Pirillo. Gada.be (pronounced “gotta be”) is a very clever tool. It’s not quite a search engine, yet it as elements of that. What does Gada.be do? Well, you give a keyword or two and it returns results in neatly formatted XML. It pulls those results only […]

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Yahoo & Microsoft Uncover the Holy Grail

by Jeff Hester · Oct 11, 2005

Interoperability is the holy grail of instant messaging. It’s been long promised, and long sought after by consumers. The fact that instant messengers don’t interoperate is absurd, really. Just imagine if I couldn’t call you because you used a different mobile phone network. Hard to imagine, right? Incredibly, instant messaging fans have suffered incompatible IM […]

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Food for Thought

by Jeff Hester · Oct 1, 2005

I have a nephew who is the most serious kid I’ve met. He is planning to attend a culinary school and training to become a chef. So in honor of his 14th birthday, I’ve put together a “music to cook by” playlist. Matchbox 20 – Breakfast at Tiffany’s Dean Martin – How Do You Like […]

Filed Under: Humor

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