Dec 8 2006
microconference
Because we don’t all get together enough and talk about important nerd topics, we and our Yahoo! compatriots have started a series of microconferences, entitled confab.yahoo, which will be open to all and be held in the evenings and early in the week (so you don’t have the excuse of needing to go to important parties).
The first in this series, on Dec 13 at 5:30pm, is a discussion on Prediction Markets, moderated by James Surowiecki. Please sign up and join me next week.
A prediction market is like a stock market for ideas or information.
The market rewards good information whether it comes from elites or the
masses. Prediction markets have built a track record of besting pundits
and pollsters when it comes to predicting everything from political
elections to quarterly sales figures.
From the announcement:
Join us for a public “how to” session on prediction markets1 moderated by James Surowiecki, New Yorker columnist and best-selling author of The Wisdom of Crowds.
Bo Cowgill from Google, Leslie Fine from HP, Todd Proebsting from Microsoft, and Dave Pennock from Yahoo! will describe how they are using prediction markets to aid corporate forecasting and decision making.
Other speakers include Chris Hibbert, the developer of Zocalo, an open source prediction market platform; Adam Siegel, the co-founder of InklingMarkets.com, a Paul Graham yCombinator startup, and Robin Hanson, the visionary economist and inventor whose pioneering work paved the way.
The event will emphasize practical lessons and hands-on advice. After brief presentations from each speaker, Surowiecki will open up the session for discussion with the audience.
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7 Comments
Alberto | Dec 9 2006 at 7:20 am
Cool.
And the cost is?
nujunto | Dec 9 2006 at 1:23 pm
What about webcasting this thing?
joshua | Dec 9 2006 at 7:22 pm
Alberto, it’s free.
Nicholas Wright | Dec 13 2006 at 12:34 am
Seems like a great use for WEb 2.0 stuff to me - take fashion or how to target a new radio station - the word on the street as I tend to pick it up is very different from the word in the marketing dept.s.
A couple of questions - which time zone are your times referring to? Is this a microphone job or can participants use just the keyboard? or webcams?
vps hosting | Dec 13 2006 at 8:13 am
Well, i will joining the prediction market soon, i really appreciate steps like these have always have a good fortune for the best companies to come on the top and prove the best in the market.
wendy | Dec 14 2006 at 11:10 pm
are outcomes available for this event that i have now missed - thanks
assea | Dec 31 2006 at 11:00 am
can you tell me how to download and use web2.0 , thk u!