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Enterprise Prediction Markets = The wisdom of crowds comes to the enterprise.

Here are short excerpts of the Forrester report on enterprise prediction markets and companies that provide software for enterprise prediction markets. – The Forrester executive summary: The “wisdom of crowds” is capturing the attention of corporate strategists across the globe, … Continue reading

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Why InTrade CEO John Delaney, TradeSports acting CEO John Delaney, BetFair CEO David Yu, HubDub CEO Nigel Eccles and NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber should supplicate me to develop my prediction market journalism project

- 200 web visitors (coming from Google) reached my John Edwards post, published yesterday afternoon (ET). – 10% of them followed my links to the 2 HubDub prediction markets on John Edwards. – - Remember that those web stats count … Continue reading

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Google PageRank of the main Prediction Market Consultants

Inking Markets and NewsFutures are graded 6 / 10. Consensus Point and Xpree are graded 5 / 10.

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If you want to connect with InTrade CEO John Delaney on LinkedIn…

http://www.linkedin.com/in/johndelaneyintrade My list of business connections is 9 times longer than his. So, mine is longer than his. I have the longest. – Don’t forget to connect with our newly created “Prediction Markets” group on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/152133/0F2F81268260 -

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HubDub will get quoted in the future, just like the Hollywood Stock Exchange is, today… — PROBABILITY = 33%, AT BEST.

HubDub CEO Nigel Eccles: I fully appreciate the work that Emile and others have done but just because something hasn’t worked before doesn’t mean it can’t happen. [...] Sometimes ideas take time and a fresh perspective before they achieve their … Continue reading

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How does InTrade deal with insider trading?

InTrade CEO John Delaney (in 2007): Insider trading is one of the wicked problems, perhaps. Intrade is about providing the best predictive information. If insiders have information, then getting that information reflected in the market increases the quality of the … Continue reading

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Meet one of the few “notable exceptions” whom InTrade CEO John Delaney was talking about in his comment to the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets).

- – - Koleman Strumpf, one of the “notable exceptions”. Here’s his latest post on Midas Oracle (about Inkling Markets). Here’s his latest interview: CNN. – John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file): Nearly … Continue reading

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InTrade CEO John Delaney’s comment to the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets) was so good that even a BetFair shareholder loved it.

Sean Park (who invested in Betfair at inception): [...] I was heartened to read John Delaney’s (InTrade CEO) contribution [...]. I would certainly have endorsed this contribution – well crafted, robust, articulate and (imo) stating the blindingly obvious [...]. – … Continue reading

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Science comes to the rescue of the “leading academics” suffering lapses of memory —those who, on Monday, signed on to be on the board of the Prediction Market Industry Association, which is supposed to lobby for the legalization of InTrade’s real-money prediction markets in the United States of America —and, on the next Tuesday, signed Bob’s puritan and sterile petition.

CX717 = “memory pills” US scientists have invented a pill that can boost memory. – Invented by Dr Gary Lynch from the University of California. – - John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file): … Continue reading

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Pssttt… Did I tell you that I like InTrade CEO John Delaney’s comment to the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets)? I can’t remember whether I did tell you that already. (I do suffer memory lapses, sometimes. I know it’s a common affliction, because I see that Robin Hanson and Justin Wolfers, just before they signed Bob’s puritan and sterile petition, completely forgot that they were on the board of the Prediction Market Industry Association, which is supposed to lobby for the legalization of InTrade’s real-money prediction markets in the United States of America. A lapse in memory, probably.)

John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file): Nearly all leading academics, not known for their attraction to unanimity, have publicly supported event markets. A great majority of these academics have been supplied with Intrade … Continue reading

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