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EXCLUSIVE: The Davos report that the Beeb didn’t broadcast because it was too critical of the world oligarchy. — [VIDEO]

With bits of Max Keiser in it.

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NewsFutures’ hyper marketese on their prediction market consultancy and software package for enterprise prediction markets

NewsFutures: Top-10 reasons why NewsFutures is the ideal partner to harness the wisdom of your crowd 1.) Integrated Solutions We offer complete solutions, not just great software. This approach delivers a much higher success rate and enables the client organization … Continue reading

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Set up a blog, get yourself a mobile video phone, and, hop, you’re a journalist competing with CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FBN, and the BBC.

IT blogger Robert Scoble (on the left), holding his Nokia, interviewing Michael Dell at Davos (WEF): Michael Arrington of TechCrunch took the pic. — Here’s a Davos video taken with a mobile video phone:

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Davos – World Economic Forum

Hey, Davos starts on Monday. WEF website And they have a blog, of course. Twenty20 = Sure Bets and Wildcard scenarios to the year 2020. Nothing on that website, yet, but I’ll be monitoring it.

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What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?

Is there any prediction market answer to the Davos Question? I bet that there isn’t any, because the successes of the prediction markets are incremental and not spectacular. Prediction markets are a tool of convenience —they have no magic in … Continue reading

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Chris Masse is bull-shitting. On the paper, NewsFutures is OBVIOUSLY the market leader.

That’s what all the people thought, after I published my ranking. The NewsFutures clients: The world’s largest steel maker. CORNING Display Technologies. Japan’s largest advertising firm. Hungary’s leading news weekly. Voted “most innovative” pharmaceutical company in Fortune‘s 2003 and 2004 … Continue reading

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NewsFutures Timeline

About the NewsFutures history: – Company founded in March 2000. – French prediction market “la bourse de l’info” launched in September 2000. – Hungarian version “Hirbörze” launched in April 2001 (first integration of a prediction exchange in a news media) … Continue reading

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World Economic Forum – Annual Meeting – @ Davos, Switzerland – 2007-01-24~28

World Economic Forum – Annual Meeting (2007) – @ Davos, Switzerland – 2007-01-24~28

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