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INSIDER’s STORY: The insightful strategic business report about The Evil Empire that Henry Berg does not want you to see

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The best thing I read this Friday morning. Don’t you love the Web? Blogging employees can rat on their boss —for our information or entertainment. -

Posted in Business | Tagged Henry Berg, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, The Evil Empire | Leave a comment

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

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

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 →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Meta), Cases, Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Software | Tagged Best Buy, Bo Cowgill, CEO, Chapman University School of Law, Christina Ann LaComb, Co-Founder and CEO, Co-Founder and President, Consensus, Consensus Point, corporate prediction markets, David Perry, Dawn Keller, enterprise prediction markets, Founder and CEO, GE, General Electric, George Mason, George Mason Department of Economics, Google, Henry Berg, internal prediction markets, Jim Lavoie, Kellogg, Koleman Strumpf, Marco Ottaviani, Market Scoring Rules, Mat Fogarty, Microsoft, MSR, prediction markets, President, private prediction markets, Rite, Rite-Solutions, Robin Hanson, School of Management, Tom W. Bell, Xpree, Xpree Inc | Leave a comment

“There will be no media consumption left in ten years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.”

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Dixit Henry Berg’s boss. -

Posted in Prediction Journalism | Tagged Henry Berg, magazine, Media, media consumption, Microsoft, new media, newspapers, print, publications, Steve Ballmer, Web | Leave a comment

Reminder: Corporate Applications of Prediction Markets Conference (1 November)

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Koleman Strumpf

The conference will be held next Thursday (1 November) at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. All of the details are available on the conference webpage (http://people.ku.edu/~cigar/PMConf_2007) and the schedule is listed below. I am pleased to note that Mat … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Events & Meetings | Tagged AEI-Brookings Joint Center on Regulatory Studies, Alexander Costakis, Arizona, Best Buy, Brookings Institution, CEO, Chapman University School of Law, Christina Ann LaComb, Co-Founder and CEO, Co-Founder and President, Consensus, David Perry, Dawn Keller, Department of Economics, Director, Discussion, Eller College of Management, Eric Zitzewitz, Founder and CEO, General, George Mason, George Mason Department of Economics, Google, Henry Berg, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX, InTrade, Jim Lavoie, John Delaney, Kansas City, Kauffman Foundation, Kellogg, Managing Director, Marco Ottaviani, Mat Fogarty, Microsoft, Paul Rhode, prediction markets, President, Rite, Robert E. Litan, Robin Hanson, School of Management, Senior Fellow, Tom W. Bell, University of Arizona, VP Research and Policy, Xpree, Xpree Inc | Leave a comment

Conference: Corporate Applications of Prediction/Information Markets (Thursday, 1 November 2007)

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Koleman Strumpf

I have organized a conference on corporate prediction markets which may be of interest to Midas Oracle readers. It will take place on 1 November at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. All of the details are available on the … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Events & Meetings | Tagged AEI-Brookings Joint Center on Regulatory Studies, Arizona, Best Buy, Brookings Institution, CEO, Chapman University School of Law, Christina Ann LaComb, Co-Founder and CEO, Co-Founder and President, Consensus, David Perry, Dawn Keller, Department of Economics, Director, Discussion, Eller College of Management, Eric Zitzewitz, Founder and CEO, General, George Mason, George Mason Department of Economics, Google, Henry Berg, InTrade, Jim Lavoie, John Delaney, Kansas City, Kauffman Foundation, Kellogg, Marco Ottaviani, Microsoft, Paul Rhode, prediction markets, President, Rite, Robert E. Litan, Robin Hanson, School of Management, Tom W. Bell, University of Arizona, VP Research and Policy | Leave a comment

Spectrum has a long article on prediction markets.

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Bet on It! – (page two – page three + a crappy listing of exchanges) – by Steven Cherry In August 2004, Todd Proebsting, a researcher in Microsoftâ€™s platform and services division, was approached by a manager in the companyâ€™s … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Analysis (Meta), Cases, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Consulting, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged cent, Chris F. Masse, consultant, Director, director of the group, France, Henry Berg, internal product, manager, manager in the company, Microsoft, researcher, software features, Sophia Antipolis, Steven Cherry, Todd Proebsting, USD | 4 Comments

BetFair, TradeSports-InTrade and the Hollywood Stock Exchange do control what you read on Wikipedia.

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

— — – BetFair has been editing Wikipedia 6 times. – TradeSports-InTrade has been editing Wikipedia 33 times. – Cantor (the owner of the HSX): 134 times. – Google (of Bo Cowgill) and Yahoo! (of David Pennock and Daniel Reeves): … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Resources - References | Tagged Alex Costakis, Cantor, Daniel Reeves, David Pennock, David Yu, George Mason University, Google, Henry Berg, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Iowa, John Delaney, Microsoft, New York Times, owner, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, University of Iowa, Yahoo! | 11 Comments

Yes Virginia, Wikipedia is a warzone of vested interests.

Posted on August 14, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Wiki Scanner: Search the Wikipedia edits to spot the organizations that edited it. It would be interesting to investigate who edited the Wikipedia pages on prediction markets and betting exchanges. (At the time of writing, Wiki Scanner was out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Resources - References | Tagged Cantor, Daniel Reeves, David Pennock, George Mason University, Google, Henry Berg, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Iowa, Microsoft, owner, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, University of Iowa, Virginia, Yahoo! | Leave a comment

MicroSoft PredictionPoint – Software for Prediction Markets?

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

— MicroSoft PredictionPoint – Software for Prediction Markets? – If yes, it is probably based on Robin Hanson’s Market Scoring Rules. Henry Berg Henry Berg = Group Manager, Information Markets at Microsoft Corporation LinkedIn tells us that Robin Hanson … Continue reading →

Posted in Software | Tagged developed software, forecasting tool, Google, Group Manager, Henry Berg, Information Markets, Justin Wolfers, Microsoft Corporation, prediction markets, Robin Hanson | Leave a comment

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