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An overview of the theory and practice of prediction markets with CrowdCast’s Leslie Fine

An overview of the theory and practice of prediction markets with CrowdCast’s Leslie Fine – @ Word-Wide Web – 2009-07-23

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The prediction market conferences are way overpriced.

- $300 for a TechCrunch conference —featuring the top Silicon Valley people. – $400 for a commercial conference on prediction markets —featuring one or two boring academics and a microscopic bunch of second-tier collective forecasting managers. Obviously, the TechCrunch conference … Continue reading

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Mat Fogarty and Leslie Fine are speaking at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston.

Enterprise 2.0 – Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – 2009-06-22~25 The Promise of Prediction Markets [*] #e2conf33 When will the product really ship? How much will we sell next year? While accurate forecasts are a cornerstone of a well-run enterprise, the methods … Continue reading

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Inkling Administrator Conference is live on Twitter.

Arik Johnson is twittering it. #inkling And the event is being video-tapped… —stay tuned to Midas Oracle. P.S.: The Inkling workshop is a regret-free conference.

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Inkling Administrator Conference on May 7th, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Adam Siegel is twittering it. #inkling Best wishes to Inkling Markets for their workshop. It will be a rich event, and no-one will have “regrets” about it.

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Inkling Administrator Conference on May 7th, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Inkling Administrator Conference on May 7th, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Adam Siegel: There won’t be any sales pitches or windy academic talks. I like that. And their price ($79) is reasonable —contrast it with the $400 that the clown … Continue reading

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Nate Silver at TED 2009

TED 2009

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The San Francisco conference on prediction markets

I previously wrote that that San Francisco vendor conference is not worth the $400 they are asking. However, in all honesty to my readers, I shall notify that they have just made one (small) change that goes in the right … Continue reading

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Prediction Markets for Emerging Technology: An Experiment in the Wisdom of Crowds

Coalition for Networked Information – Prediction Markets – @ Washington, D.C., U.S.A. – 2008-12-08~09 http://markets.nitle.org/ -

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NewsFutures workshop — Monday, October 27, 2008

After you have participated in this NewsFutures workshop, send me an e-mail at … cfm |-at-| midasoracle |.|-com-| … or …. chrisfmasse |-at-| gmail |.|-com-| … to tell me how it went. I need to hear from the participants, not … Continue reading

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