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Patenting the prediction markets?
Prove that you are a better Internet innovator than David Pennock, and get $5,000 in cash.
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GLOBAL WARMING… SOLVED.
Caveat Bettor, please take a look at that.
Mike Linksvayer, please take a look at that.
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Well be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals, said Turner, 69. Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state -like Somalia or Sudan- and livi
Ted Turner @ Charlie Rose (on April 1st, 2008)
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The answer is “-better technology“-.
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Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:
- How to win $100 in play money at HubDub, regardless of any political outcome
- Problem 17: Prediction Markets — USMA D/Math Problem of the Week — Submission Deadline: April 3, 2008 at 1600
- Midas Oracle is now powered by WordPress 2.5 —and you should be too.
- Would be fun to have the equivalent for event derivatives.
- QUESTION TO THE READERS: Could anyone guess what Nassim Nicholas Taleb would think of the prediction markets?
Ducted Wind Turbines (DFWT)
Author Profile -Editor and Publisher of Midas Oracle .ORG .NET .COM —- Chris Masse’-s mugshot —- Contact Chris Masse —- Chris Masse’-s LinkedIn profile —- Chris Masse’-s FaceBook profile —- Chris Masse’-s Google profile —- Sophia-Antipolis, France, E.U. Read more from this author…-Read the previous blog posts by Chris. F. Masse:
- A case of advertisement mistaken for content
- Michael Shermer’s The Mind of The Market
- A prediction market panel… where only 2 out of 5 are truly prediction market experts. What a nuclear joke. This poor line-up is the reflection of the poor state of the prediction market industry in the US… and the inherent mediocrity of the conference business.
- VentureBeat makes it like established veterans NewsFutures, Consensus Point and Inkling Markets are contemporary of just-out-of-the-egg Xpree.
- 13 lines for Justin Wolfers, but only 2 lines and one word for Eric Zitzewitz — Mat Fogarty, what were you thinking of?
- The Betting King — The ATP Tour was his NASDAQ.
- The blue screen we all wish David Pennock will never see
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Last time, I told you about TED 2007 and I noticed Nathan Myhrvold (former MicroSoft CTO –he founded MicroSoft Research) in the speaker list. That prompted me to visit his site, Intellectual Ventures, home of his “invention company”:
Intellectual Ventures is an invention company. We conceive and patent our own inventions in-house through a world-renowned staff of internal and external scientists and engineers. We also acquire and license patented inventions from other inventors around the world. Our network of invention sources includes: large and small businesses, governments, academia, and individual inventors. These inventions span a diverse range of technologies including: software, semiconductors, wireless, consumer electronics, networking, lasers, biotechnology, and medical devices. Our current focus is on developing our invention portfolio. Over time, we intend to market our portfolio on a broad and non-exclusive basis through a variety of channels including spin-out companies.
In the November issue of IP Investor (PDF), it is said that Intellectual Ventures has filed about 400 patents, and Nathan Myhrvold slams eBay for having filled only “10 patents or 11 patents” —big companies need patents “for the future”, he says. It would be interesting to know how many patents BetFair has filled —BetFair, like eBay, is a peer-to-peer exchange.
Of course, once you have transitioned from “invention” to “innovation”, the road does not end there: more than 75% of new products fail.
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All this to come back to Robin Hanson’s invention, the concept of decision markets (a market-generated automatism to extract the wisdom of crowds and make it a better decision tool than managers or politicians), which he spams at each conference he is invited in. As I wrote two times, it’s a solution in search for a problem. I would see only two applications (last time I said “only one”, but I got a new idea):
– As I said, series of decisions that are NEVER taken by senior executives.
– In the coming two decades, imaginary universes (like Second Life) are going to meet with prediction markets. Once we are there, we can imagine a Second Life sub-universe filled with libertarians, playing with imaginary prediction markets. Then, yes, if the gamers agree, imaginary decision markets could rule —both at the macro and micro levels.
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More Resources On Innovation:
– The Business Innovation Insider blog – (highly recommended, especially to my marketing guru Guy Kawasaki)
– Innovators share the lessons they’ve learned during 2006 – (a hodgepodge of ideas taken from various thinkers)