According to Wikipedia, Prediction Markets are “speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions. Assets are created whose final cash value is tied to a particular event (e.g. will the next US president be a Republican) or parameter (e.g. total sales next quarter). The current market prices can then be interpreted as predictions of...
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Archive for 2009
Twitter, Prediction Markets and Profits
The Mechanical Turk
Link: The Mechanical Turk The True Story of the 18th Century Chess-Playing Machine (‘Automata’) that Fooled the World.
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Neave Strobe …like dropping acid, but not
Link: Neave Strobe …like dropping acid, but not Stare at the animation for 20 seconds, then look away – the world will seem to throb. I like these – even trivial – things that connect the web to the real world.
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