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Former CommerceNet CEO Resch Re-emerges

Congratulations, Mark! Copyright-sharing group delves into science | CNET News.com Creative Commons, a nonprofit group aimed at carving out ways to share creative works, is expanding from the realm of copyright into patents and scientific publishing. The Stanford, Calif.-based organization said Wednesday that it hired former CommerceNet executive Mark Resch as its new chief executive […]

W3C 10 Symposium

Rohit will be attending W3C 10 on December 1… Speakers and panelists will discuss the history of the Web, W3C’s central role in the Web’s development, and their visions of the Web’s future. The program is built on two themes: The world of W3C is leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is the […]

Market Based Resource Allocation

Fine is a former student of Ledyard’s, who also Hanson’s advisor. Research at HP Labs : Information Dynamics Lab : Papers : Eliminating Public Knowledge Biases in Small Group Predictions Kevin Lai, Bernardo A. Huberman, Leslie R. Fine HP Laboratories Palo Alto, CA 94304 Abstract P2P clusters like the Grid and PlanetLab enable in principle […]

eBay as Pricing Authority

Tony Gentile pointed eBay’s move to release pricing data as a Web service: eBay announced the availability of Pulse, a tool that aggregates bids to provide up-to-the-minute (and historical) values for goods (and some services). Yes, that’s right… eBay, who, unlike your local newspaper, has transactions that clear (i.e., you know that the item was […]

UPC + Inventory + Mobile + Search

John Battelle writes in his piece, “The Transparent (Shopping) Society”: First, the entire UPC system, which I must admit I do not fully grok, must be made open and available as a web service. Second, merchants must be compelled to make their inventory open and available to web services. Third, mobile device makers must install […]

Troutgirl In Da House

We welcome Joyce to CommerceNet Labs; in the coming months, she’ll be working with us on projects such as zClassifieds and declassifieds and other fun things to do with ad networks…

WWW 2005

We’ll be not posting for several days so we can complete our paper about Nutch for submission to WWW 2005…

Report On Election Market Making

Bettors for Bush – Political futures markets claim they’re more accurate than opinion polls. So, how’d they do yesterday? By Daniel Gross Bettors for Bush Political futures markets claim they’re more accurate than opinion polls. So, how’d they do yesterday? By Daniel Gross Posted Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004, at 12:15 PM PT The exit polls […]