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NewsFutures Election Contest – Actually Win Something
Yesterday, NewsFutures launched a new contest on the US election, focusing on swing states. A way for us to beta test some new technology and some new UIs (this blogger/trader seems to like it so far.) As a reward, we’re offering X$5,000,000 to the best traders. That’s play money, but it’s significant play money: if [...]
NewsFutures Invents “Prediction Market Movies”.
A “prediction market movie” allows one to relive the excitement of past trading in a prediction market. For instance, the widget below brings back fond memories of the epic Clinton vs Obama primary battle. Isn’t it more fun than looking at a price chart?
(If you are reading this in a feed and the widget doesn’t [...]
NewsFutures Enterprise Prediction Market Workshop, NYC, 10/27
For aspiring practitioners and those intrigued by the applications of collective intelligence in the workplace, the typical prediction markets conference can be frustrating for lack of focus on practical knowledge and hands-on experience with the tools. That’s why NewsFutures is organizing a Wisdom of Crowds Consulting Workshop, in New York City, on October 27.
It [...]
How political prediction markets save lives
Over the years there has been a lot of talk in this community about how prediction markets could be “socially valuable”. The discussion has often focused on the value of the information and/or predictions that the markets could generate, especially in a political context. Election-based decision markets a la Hanson are thus being held as [...]
Enterprise 3.0: new representations, new markets
Later this week, NewsFutures will have another great opportunity to introduce prediction markets into the consciousness of mighty American businessmen and women.
At the invitation of the organizers of the September 2007 DiamondExchange event, I will take part in a panel discussion on “technologies to raise your organization’s IQ” led by Chunka Mui, author of [...]
Demise of a Sarko Killer
She was billed as the only one who could steal this election from Nicolas Sarkozy. The media had dubbed her “the queen of the polls”, so towering was her popularity over her socialist rivals for the party’s nomination. She was strikingly beautiful (for a politician), feminine yet tough, motherly yet authoritative, reassuring yet unafraid to [...]
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