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Why InTrade CEO John Delaney, TradeSports acting CEO John Delaney, BetFair CEO David Yu, HubDub CEO Nigel Eccles and NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber should supplicate me to develop my prediction market journalism project
- 200 web visitors (coming from Google) reached my John Edwards post, published yesterday afternoon (ET).
- 10% of them followed my links to the 2 HubDub prediction markets on John Edwards.
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Remember that those web stats count only the web visitors, not the feed subscribers —who are more numerous, and whom I focus more on.
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TAKEAWAY: A [...]
Horizon 2015: A long-term strategic perspective for the real-money prediction markets
Announcing the “Horizon 2015″ group.
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The year 2008 in the field of prediction markets will be marked by these 4 events:
The CFTC will soon announce that InTrade, TradeSports and BetFair are still unwelcomed in the United States of America.
The prediction market academics (with some “notable exceptions“) are all ready to feed on the InTrade trading data, [...]
Prediction markets = “the future of journalism” —said, from day one, Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures. Emile, if you have balls, let’s do it —all together.
My yesterday’s post about the Obama–Clinton prediction markets was the most popular Midas Oracle story of that Monday. Hummmm… No idea why… I was not helped by Google Search or by an external blogger. Sounds like our Midas Oracle web readers and feed subscribers liked it … for some reasons I have yet to discover [...]
The managing editor of CNBC.com asks readers whether they should report what the (play-money and real-money) prediction markets say. He is not that hot on the idea —to say the least. Which is why we should develop a blog network on prediction markets —to get rid of the journalists’ filter and report the prediction markets directly to people. Wanna in?
But the “gambling” nature puts some journalists off.
Is it just providing information … or promoting betting action?
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See, that’s exactly why I want to develop my “Midas Oracle Project”.
Classic journalists and classic bloggers will never treat prediction markets with the maximum sophistication they deserve.
Only brand-new blog networks that will specialize in prediction markets will do a [...]
The Midas Oracle Project
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the richer and most technically sophisticated form of prediction market journalism
a very popular form of prediction market journalism
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Sounds like a too lofty dual goal; your feeling is right. My idea is to find an adéquation between this (too) lofty dual goal and the class of organizations that could fund that. I have had a crazy [...]
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