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Usable Country Day

January 21st, 2008 · Comments Off · Other Markets

For those who haven’t read (or listened to) Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech, it is remarkable, and certainly worth reading not only for the quality of its content, but its metaphorical power. Martin Luther King Jr. made civil rights accessible in a way few have (or can) by communicating clearly the past, [...]

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Virtually Waiting for Your Cash

January 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Usability, Virtual World Markets

I’m willing to bet that most people who read (or wrote) about the banning of “unregulated” banks in the virtual world Second Life were concerned with the legalistic, moral, and financial aspects of the story. (Covered in TechCrunch and the FT.) Reading a sentence like this from the FT … There was a run on [...]

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Public Prediction Markets Heuristic Review: Inkling

May 20th, 2006 · Comments Off · Prediction Markets

Who Is … Inkling is another recent entrant into the public prediction market field. Already generating a lot of interest and commentary in the Prediction Market community, Inkling does something that appears (at least to me) to be very novel. As they say in their Q&A: “Inkling has been designed to be easy enough for [...]

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