In the “whatever can be transparent will be transparent (but not necessarily usable)” category we have this site from the UK: LIVE Alt Auction Search (ht to AltSearchEngines). Select the auction sites you’re interested in searching (alas, no eBay!), enter your keywords … … and off you go. Hunh? Not quite what I expected, but [...]
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Searching Across Auctions
March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off · Auction Markets, Usability
Tags:eBay·London·United Kingdom
Trust Me, I Have Friends
October 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Financial Markets
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sites have an enormous user experience (and market) problem: how to help lenders pick trustworthy people to loan to. Banks often have whole departments dedicated to this. How is your average (monied) internet dude and dudette supposed to sift the righteous from the chaff? This is not unlike eBay’s problem – how [...]
Tags:America·eBay·given social network·internet dude·Lending Club·matching algorithm·nifty social networking features·P2P·peer-to-peer·social networking features·style solutions·United Kingdom·United States·USD
Shapers and Voters
October 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Prediction Markets
Item #3 (and my final one) from the 2007 NY Prediction Market Conference Perhaps the most interesting talk of the day was given by Jed Christiansen of Mercury Consulting. He reviewed the results of his study, where people used a prediction market to make bets on the outcomes of a series of boat races. (Apparently [...]
Notes from a New Business Idea
January 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Other Markets
There are times when one seriously enjoys the efficiency of ideas. Take this for example. The other day I was sitting at my computer. I smacked my head with the palm of my hand: great idea! I quickly jotted down the following: PM [as in prediction markets] Idea – Name: PlaceYourBets.com – Two people have [...]
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