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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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NewsFutures’ hyper marketese on their prediction market consultancy and software package for enterprise prediction markets

NewsFutures: Top-10 reasons why NewsFutures is the ideal partner to harness the wisdom of your crowd 1.) Integrated Solutions We offer complete solutions, not just great software. This approach delivers a much higher success rate and enables the client organization … Continue reading

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In the blogosphere, everything is immediate. The deadline is now.

With all due respect, I totally disagree with Tyler Cowen (of Marginal Revolution fame). Here are some outstanding blogs and sites that are seldom prompted by immediacy: Alea – (finance) Endless Innovation – Read & Write Web – (information technology) … Continue reading

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Dead or Almost Dead

— Dead: CME Economic Derivatives — Auction format Economic Derivatives – (U.S.A.) — CME + ICAP + Longitude (previously with Goldman Sachs) — These financial instruments are traded through a Universal Dutch Auction format —an automated parimutuel technique. — OTC … Continue reading

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With the 2007 hurricane season under way, scientists believe their new forecasting model will make more-accurate predictions, thereby saving lives.

MIT Technology Review: The device that will make this happen is a new hurricane-forecasting model developed by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental Modeling Center. It will utilize advanced physics and data collected from environmental-observation equipment … Continue reading

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The hierarchical structure of the Internet, based on the connections between individual nodes, such as service providers

MIT Technology Review

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