Prediction Markets + Market Predictions = Collective Forecasting That Pays Off

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The World Wide Web is all about hyperlinks, and performing services to get them to point to your blog.

Tech Crunch:
Ultimately, though, it is all about the links. Links are the currency of the Web. They are the way attributions are made. In most cases, media companies would be better off if they could just get everyone who is copying their stuff to link back to them than by trying to extract licensing fees [...]

Mark Rose’s law of product management

The best products exist at the intersection of demand and profitability.
Mark Rose’s profile at LinkedIn. (He is an ex-HedgeStreet marketer.)
Mark Rose has made 224 “connections” at LinkedIn. Wow. SMOKIN’!!!…

Bill McIntosh (HedgeStreet’s VP Marketing) on Mark Rose (registration-needed link):
Mark is one of the best people I have had the pleasure to work with. His deep understanding [...]

Debunking HSX Alex Costakis’ conspiracy theory

#1. There’s a story covering Inkling Markets and (not extensively) the corporate prediction markets in the Chicago Tribune. Here’s an interesting excerpt:
In the real world, the reason people use markets is to make money. If an outcome is accurately predicted, it is profitable. In virtual markets, “play money is not a bad predictor, but economists [...]

The Wisdom of the Prediction Market Creator

A short thought.
#1. Jonathan Gewirtz (the owner of Chicago Boyz dot net, a group blog on US politics, history and free-market policies) wants to set up a prediction market on whether the European Union will break up. This is not a completely bad idea. However, if I may suggest something, I would rather see a [...]

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