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Pepsi invested heavily in so-called “social media” while de-investing in traditional advertising. — [ANALYSIS]

Result: – Pepsi-Cola and Diet Pepsi had each lost about 5% of their market share in the past year. #fail

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Don’t pump up the features of the prediction markets —instead, put the emphasis on their benefits.

John Tierney and Jed Christiansen are making the same mistake: they think that people and experts should be impressed by the information aggregation functionality of the prediction markets. They are not —people still prefer reading Nate Silver and Electoral-Vote.com over … Continue reading

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