My articles appears without my persmission on the ComputerWorld.com
Website. ComputerWorld says that I should be honoured to be published by them and
that they don't have to pay me a cent. They eventually removed the article, but
refused to pay me. I uncovered they did the same with at least a dozen other authors.
1X launched their SportMarkets exchange. The exchange
allowed online sportbooks to layoff every bet on the exchange, eliminating
risk. The exchange traded thousands of positions across about a dozen
Websites.
This was the second time I was given the MVP award. Microsoft
offered the award again, but I refused it on the grounds that they refused
to ship a JVM with XP.
1X launched their professional trading exchange. The exchange
allowed professional traders to hedge their positions against each other
and limit risk. The exchange was dismantled after one trade was executed
in the first month.
724 (SVNX) traded as high as $345 the TSX and $240 on NASDAQ.
Because of the 10-1 reverse split that's actually $3450 post split
or 1000 times higher than it traded three year later.
The original ABO was written by somebody else, but was deployed
in only a handful of theatres, as it was quite awful. I rewrote it and it is
now installed in close to half of the movie theatres in North America.