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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Prediction markets on US political elections: The Financial Times praises InTrade and snubs BetFair.
Financial Times: Politics has won InTrade a lot of publicity [*], but its core markets are financial. [**] In Britain, politics tends to be the concern of companies that otherwise focus on sport. [***] [*] The Financial Times never mentions … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchange Liquidity, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged BetFair, Financial Times, InTrade, prediction markets, US politics
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What makes people comment like crazy on Midas Oracle? –> ANSWER –> Suspense, Suspense –> John Maynard Keynes
As noticed by our good Doctor Professor Michael Giberson (of Knowledge Problem fame): The appropriateness of the “prediction market†label to an information aggregation mechanism — 39 comments The best way to rank the best ideas coming from the rank … Continue reading
Marc Andreessen on innovations, entrepreneurs and startups
Marc Andreessen, Founder of Ning, Opsware, Netscape and the Creator of Mosaic, provides his insight to entrepreneurs at Startup School 08.
Predicting the entrepreneurial future via hanging out in university research labs
Download this post to see the video. Your feed reader (e.g., Google Reader) does not show the video to you. Marc Andreessen:
Will collective intelligence mechanism AskAgent.com “revolutionize the world”?
Via the iPredict guy, AskAgent.com: Collective Intelligence Made Easy There are Q&A sites. There are crowd-sourcing sites. There are social networks and search engines. There are even paid query sites. But there is only one Ask Agent. That’s because we’ve … Continue reading
“Google Project 10^100″ harnesses the wisdom of crowds.
As Emile et al. are debating the SAVE program, Google has announced today the launch of Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. The result is the list you see … Continue reading