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Inkling Markets’ Advisory Board… which does not want to tell its name

Via Daniel Horowitz (Business and Technology Consultant) Inkling Markets’ Advisory Board (curiously named “Friends Of Inkling”): Bo Cowgill, Google Inc. — Product developer, expert on decision markets for Google; creator of Google’s prediction market and co-author of Using Prediction Markets … Continue reading

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Do the media avoid reporting the bad omens that is sometimes reflected in the prediction markets?

The HSX story that Max Keiser recounts does not lead me to think that “prediction markets are doomed to fail”. It tells me that television is not about reporting the truth —it’s about entertainment. Link via Daniel Horowitz (Business and … Continue reading

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Excellent article about enterprise prediction markets and Inkling Markets —with a good word for Robin Hanson, who invented MSR.

Via Daniel Horowitz (Business and Technology Consultant) Software taps into the zeitgeist to predict the future. -

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The human time constant

Over at BritannicaBlog, a spark of realization that prediction markets might be a good thing, after all. Welcome to the party! This reminds me of a technology consultant that worked with me, who always cited “the human time constant” for … Continue reading

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