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CrowdCast = Collective Forecasting = Collective Intelligence That Predicts

The fine people at CrowdCast (Mat Fogarty and Leslie Fine) are finally out today with their brand-new, no-trading, collective forecasting mechanism. The purpose is to aggregate information across one organization so as to generate the most objective business forecasts. The … Continue reading

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Why CrowdCast ditched Robin Hanson’s MSR as the engine of its IAM software

- Leslie Fine of CrowdCast: Chris, As Emile points out, in 2003 I started experimenting with (and empirically validating) alternatives to the traditional stock-market metaphor that will be more viable in corporate settings. We found the level of confusion and … Continue reading

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How to make great use of the LinkedIn recommendation system

Mat Fogarty @ LinkedIn: – “Mat is a funny, friendly and great person to work with. He’s highly entrepreneurial and innovative business leader, with passion and drive. I’d recommend Crowdcast to anyone – they know how to create best-of-breed online … Continue reading

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Kay-Yut Chen of HP Labs + Mat Fogarty of CrowdCast

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Combinatorial Prediction Markets — David Pennock Edition

ACM: [...] Prediction markets are gaining interest because the Internet allows greater worldwide access to them, as well as to the ever-increasing amount of data stored on any topic imaginable (which theoretically allows participants to make more informed predictions, individually … Continue reading

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Mat Fogarty to David Perry: “My ‘Chief Scientist’ beats yours.”

Leslie Fine is “Chief Scientist” of CrowdCast, now —formerly “Xpree”.

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Did Xpree and Inkling Markets forecast that?

Electronic Arts, the world’s largest game publisher, best known for Madden and the Sims, lost $641 million in 2008′s fourth quarter. Both Xpree and Inkling Markets boast Electronic Arts as their client. Previously: The truth about prediction markets

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Are collective intelligence solutions being oversold?

Xpree CEO Mat Fogarty: Chris, Management struggles to understand and plan for the future. When forecasts are inaccurate, corporations incur huge costs due to inventory write-offs, stock-outs, misallocated resources or cost of capital. Collective intelligence delivers objective, accurate forecasts in … Continue reading

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My open question to Xpree’s Mat Fogarty

Mat, congrats for your expansion. – Will Jim oversell the predictive power of the enterprise prediction markets? All the other “business development” directors I see out there are overselling, in my view. -

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Xpree’s Advisory Board

- Justin Wolfers – No more Eric Zitzewitz – Michael Pliner – Andrew McAfee – Xpree’s Advisory Board -

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