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Everything Betting

April 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Fun, Market Definitions, Prediction Markets

Everything 2.0 has been running a nice series of late, listing out the number of “Web 2.0″ companies/sites that help users do some thing, such as: visualize information; or build an RSS feed; or go play games; and so on. Today’s list seems to be right in line with UsableMarkets’ interests. It lists a number [...]

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Have You Thought About Bullet Charts Today?

February 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Information Design

Well, neither have I … but other people are. Here are some links for those of you interested in creating bullet charts. But first, an example of a bullet chart – Bullet Graphs for Not-to-Exceed Targets – Business Objects’ Bullet Graphs: A Good Idea, Implemented Poorly – Holiday Goodies – Google Chart API Challenge Charts [...]

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Selling Infomation Markets to the Corporate World

May 7th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Prediction Markets

I am fairly new to the area of information markets, but one thing has become abundantly clear to me: selling the concept of information markets to businesses and government agencies is not going as well as perhaps it was thought it would. I’m sure some people thought that James Surowiecki’s popular business book would do [...]

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