Item #3 (and my final one) from the 2007 NY Prediction Market Conference Perhaps the most interesting talk of the day was given by Jed Christiansen of Mercury Consulting. He reviewed the results of his study, where people used a prediction market to make bets on the outcomes of a series of boat races. (Apparently [...]
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Intro to Prediction Markets Video
September 5th, 2007 · Comments Off · Prediction Markets, Usability
Apparently an hour long presentation with about a million slides introducing prediction markets and describing how they work for newbies to the field wasn’t good enough. So Jed Christiansen put himself to the task of explaining prediction markets in under 3 minutes. As we say in Brooklyn, “Good on ya.” A quick peak (lasting no [...]
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NYC PM Conference
August 28th, 2007 · Comments Off · Prediction Markets
Anyone who wants to know more about prediction markets, specifically, how one works in the enterprise, and how to implement one at your company, should stop by the upcoming prediction market conference, hosted by Consensus Point in NYC on Sept. 24th. You can see Jed Christiansen of Mercury Research & Consulting and many other people [...]

