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Google’s Bo Cowgill takes a swipe at the prediction market software vendors.

- Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitwewitz – 2008-01-06 – Bo Cowgill: [...] Trade-by-trade data can reveal characteristics of specific working … Continue reading

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Do Google’s enterprise prediction markets work? — Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google

Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitwewitz – 2008-01-06 – VIDEO — Bo Cowgill on Google’s enterprise prediction markets — O’Reilly Money:Tech … Continue reading

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Mat Fogarty’s Xpree needs a mini Chris Hibbert.

Company: Xpree – prediction market software Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Description: Xpree is a leader [*] in providing software to enable corporations to tap their collective intelligence.  Using prediction market based technology , Xpree’s solution is a fun game … Continue reading

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Deep Throat on the NewsFutures’s Dutch debacle

Deep Throat on the NewsFutures’s Dutch debacle: The other moral is that prediction markets should be up-and-running for some time before the big media push. This may not have helped with the structuring of the contracts in the NewsFutures case, … Continue reading

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