Tag Archives: Web 2.0
Seesmic Desktop helps us manage the monitoring of prediction market chattering over social media.
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Will the global economic recession kill the Web 2.0 (which includes HubDub)?
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Jeremy Liew:
I predict that media buyers will focus on both a flight to quality and a flight to surety. This will benefit three types of startups: companies with large audiences, companies that sell direct-response advertising, and companies that offer valuable niche content.
In 2013, Enterprise 2.0 will be a $4.6 billion industry. Good. But they forgot to mind the enterprise prediction markets.
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Our good doctor EJSS laughs at the Web 2.0″ concept on TechCrunch, but touts it as an essential part of the NewsFutures offerings on his website.
Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures:
[…-] Also, the mere idea of a Web 2.0 makeover of prediction markets is laughable. To paraphrase a good ol’ song from the 90’s, prediction markets were web 2.0 before web 2.0 was cool.
Yeah, but Emile advertises his mastering of “-Web 2.0 tools”- on the NewsFutures frontpage —-while Inkling Markets and HubDug don’-t even mention the “-Web 2.0″- concept on their frontpage (I checked).
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Here’-s a screen shot of the NewsFutures website:
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Care to revise your TechCrunch statement, doc?
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Read the previous blog posts by Chris. F. Masse:
- Pervez Musharraf prediction markets –Eric Zitzewitz Edition
- The Over-Round Explained
- WHY THE PREDICTION MARKETS WILL LIKELY F**K UP SUPER TUESDAY 2008.
- Still unconvinced by prediction market journalist Justin Wolfers
- Oprah Winfrey
- RIGHT-CLICK THIS IMAGE, AND FILL IN THIS SURVEY, PLEASE.
- Papers on Prediction Markets