Entries from September 2007

September 24, 2007

Enterprise 3.0: new representations, new markets

Later this week, NewsFutures will have another great opportunity to introduce prediction markets into the consciousness of mighty American businessmen and women.
At the invitation of the organizers of the September 2007 DiamondExchange event, CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber will take part in a panel discussion on “technologies to raise your organization’s IQ” led by Chunka Mui, [...]

September 21, 2007

Introducing Bet2Give : the thrill of betting, the power of giving

This week we released a totally new breed of prediction market, a “mash up” between online betting and online giving.
It’s a simple idea: What if, rather than being reviled as a source of evil, the natural urge to bet on the future could be leveraged to help improve the future? What if you could win [...]

September 18, 2007

UC Riverside’s eLab eXchange : featuring Competitive Forecasting and Idea Pageants

UC Riverside’s Sloan Center for Internet Retailing has just launched their eLab eXchange, a website for gathering collective predictions about marketing in the digital world. The New York Times had a nice write up about it yesterday.
The eLab eXchange features two of NewsFutures knowledge aggregation mechanisms of which there are precious few public examples: Competitive [...]