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Launch a prediction market startup for free thanks to Google App Engine.

Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure.
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Matt Cutts:

Google launched App Engine, which lets you write code for a web application, then Google takes care of the scaling/failover/logistics-type issues. You can store your data in a Google Bigtable using the Google File System (GFS). There’s a bunch of App Engine APIs to simplify things like sending [...]

Meet Nigel Eccles, a veteran of UK’s betting exchange industry, and an innovator.

Nigel Eccles (HudBud CEO – Previously with McKinsey, Betdaq, and BetFair-Flutter)
HubDub is developing a web application which will change the way people discover, track and interact with news stories.
His startup: HubDub – (What they are brewing: a news aggregator using some kind of prediction market mechanism.)
More info:
What we are developing is a social news aggregation [...]

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