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Jed Christiansen is taken hostage by the Soviets.

Free Jed Christiansen…!!… So, he can blog again on prediction markets… and pump up the hype.

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Jed Christiansen is not dead.

He is working at Google as “a Strategic Partner Manager in the EMEA Reseller team”. Another proof that prediction markets don’t put food on the table of their most ardent advocates.

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Here’s why we haven’t heard about Jed Christiansen for months

The prediction market kid is writing a dissertation on YCombinator. Interesting topic.

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Why I unsubscribed to John Delaney (InTrade) and Jed Christiansen at Twitter

I try to “follow” as many prediction market people on Twitter as I can (click on “following”), but I had to unfollow these 2 persons because: – I like Jed a lot, but he often tweets about his private life. … Continue reading

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CrowdCast want to hire the world.

- A prediction market consultant. – A sales leader. Crowdcast is the leading provider of prediction market solutions created exclusively for the enterprise. Hummm… The leaders are NewsFutures and Inkling Markets. But maybe CrowdCast will take the lead, later on, … Continue reading

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If prediction market advocates are so confident, why aren’t their claims more specific?

Jed Christiansen was kind enough to reply to my post: If prediction markets are so good at forecasting, why aren’t they being used much more widely? #1. (Public or enterprise) traders mainly bring to the exchange some bits of information … Continue reading

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Bursting the enterprise prediction market bubble

I blogged about Jed Christiansen’s EPM post, five minutes ago. I would like to attract your attention to Jed’s awesome comments. Jed comes out as a very reasoned and reasonable person. Good point for him.

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If prediction markets are so good at forecasting, why aren’t they being used much more widely?

Jed Christiansen has an awesome industry analysis … which I will disagree with. Number one, I don’t understand why information aggregation would be a “bottom-up” approach (as opposed to “top-down”). Our traders bring bits of information to the market —but … Continue reading

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How the love for prediction markets saved Jed Christiansen from injury (and maybe death)

Had Jed not discovered his love for (enterprise) prediction markets, he would still be in his submarine today —click here to see what happened to the sub.

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Some enterprise prediction markets work very well… —some others are just a waste of time.

Jed Christiansen: [...] When it comes to the first point, forecasting something that the company already forecasts, prediction markets may or may not be an excellent solution. I’ve seen one set of markets that absolutely blew away the accuracy of … Continue reading

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