The Industry Standard re-launches as a combo User-Created News Media + Prediction Exchange (organizing prediction markets about the Internet economy).

When copies are free, you need to sell things that can not be copied. HubDub rocks. Thus, the combo News Aggregation + Prediction Exchange rocks.

The Industry Standard re-launches as a combo User-Created News Media + Prediction Exchange (organizing prediction markets about the Internet economy).

Chris F. Masse February 4th, 2008

The Industry Standard

Silicon Alley Insider

Central Networks

[I know more about this brand-new prediction exchange, but I'm not yet allowed to tell.]

UPDATE: I have taken the first look. No charts??

UPDATE: OK, I’m allowed to write that the Industry Standard’s prediction exchange is powered by Consensus Point. And the charts are coming…

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Exchanges & Markets , Genesis , Journalism, Editing & Publishing
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2 Responses to “The Industry Standard re-launches as a combo User-Created News Media + Prediction Exchange (organizing prediction markets about the Internet economy).”

# Greg Knaddison on 04 Feb 2008 at 7:14 am

Note the industry standard now runs on Drupal

But, note also, they have not released the module behind the site that runs the prediction market piece…interesting.
# Chris. F. Masse on 04 Feb 2008 at 8:00 am

Drupal is a friend of WordPress in the open-source software space.

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