Their idea summaries, so far:

- Prediction markets

- Miscellaneous

- Managing information

- Kids

- Wikis

- Comments, mashups and tagging

- Data services

- Ze Frank

- Social networks

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In passing, I “remark” that they don’t get web writing.

• Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines – by Jakob Nielsen – (Search-engines kill the art of clever headlines) – 1998-09-06

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The small team of The Economist’s Project Red Stripe is about to make the decision on which project it will “take to market”. I’m biased. I believe that displaying market-generated predictions is the logical extension of any idea and news publishers. But should The Economist set up its own prediction sub-exchange or should it just cherry-pick the probabilities generated on various liquid prediction exchanges out there?

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