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How Best Buy make use of their prediction market software

Here are 2 videos about how Best Buy use the “Web 2.0″ information technology (and that includes enterprise prediction markets) to further their business. – One short video: – One long video: -

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The URL of the Consensus Point Blog + The URL of its feed

http://www.consensuspoint.com/prediction-markets-blog/ http://www.consensuspoint.com/prediction-markets-blog/?feed=rss2 [How to read blogs using a feed reader like Google Reader]

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Robin Hanson’s résumé is a potent selling point for a website frontpage. I predict that the Consensus Point stock will go up.

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What is a prediction market? What is the utility of enterprise prediction markets?

Consensus Point: First, every market price is a prediction. Think of a familiar securities market such as a stock market. The price of a company’s stock is a forecast of the value of future dividend payments. A bond price is … Continue reading

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Robin Hanson is now Chief Scientist of Consensus Point.

Robin Hanson is now Chief Scientist of Consensus Point. With Inkling Markets and NewsFutures, Consensus Point is the co-leader in the enterprise prediction markets space.

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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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The best presentations from the world’s best conference on enterprise prediction markets —ever

Awesome slides in bold. Brought to you by Koleman Strumpf (circa November 2007): – Henry Berg, Microsoft <slides> Discussant: Robin Hanson (George Mason Department of Economics) <slides> – Christina Ann LaComb, GE (The Imagination Market; abstract is free, text is … Continue reading

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STRAIGHT FROM THE DOUBLESPEAK DEPARTMENT: NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber, well known to chase tirelessly the Infidels who dare calling “prediction markets” their damn polling system, is eager to sell the confusion to his clients and whomever would listen.

Emile’s made up a phrase that means nothing (except in his fertile imagination), “a proprietary prediction market variant“ —sounds like a red herring to me. Unlike Consensus Point, Inkling Markets and Xpree, NewsFutures is the only prediction market software vendor … Continue reading

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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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The Industry Standard is powered by Consensus Point.

I’m free to talk, now. The Industry Standard is powered by Consensus Point.

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