Tag Archives: Web 2.0
Seesmic Desktop helps us manage the monitoring of prediction market chattering over social media.
Will the global economic recession kill the Web 2.0 (which includes HubDub)?
Jeremy Liew:
I predict that media buyers will focus on both a flight to quality and a flight to surety. This will benefit three types of startups: companies with large audiences, companies that sell direct-response advertising, and companies that offer valuable niche content.
In 2013, Enterprise 2.0 will be a $4.6 billion industry. Good. But they forgot to mind the enterprise prediction markets.
Our good doctor EJSS laughs at the Web 2.0″ concept on TechCrunch, but touts it as an essential part of the NewsFutures offerings on his website.
Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures:
[…-] Also, the mere idea of a Web 2.0 makeover of prediction markets is laughable. To paraphrase a good ol’ song from the 90’s, prediction markets were web 2.0 before web 2.0 was cool.
Yeah, but Emile advertises his mastering of “-Web 2.0 tools”- on the NewsFutures frontpage —-while Inkling Markets and HubDug don’-t even mention the “-Web 2.0″- concept on their frontpage (I checked).
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Here’-s a screen shot of the NewsFutures website:
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Care to revise your TechCrunch statement, doc?
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Read the previous blog posts by Chris. F. Masse:
- Pervez Musharraf prediction markets –Eric Zitzewitz Edition
- The Over-Round Explained
- WHY THE PREDICTION MARKETS WILL LIKELY F**K UP SUPER TUESDAY 2008.
- Still unconvinced by prediction market journalist Justin Wolfers
- Oprah Winfrey
- RIGHT-CLICK THIS IMAGE, AND FILL IN THIS SURVEY, PLEASE.
- Papers on Prediction Markets