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Invitation :: Prediction Markets Summit :: Dec 2, 2005 :: San
Francisco/Silicon Valley :: Registration Open :: http://tinyurl.com/czuxd

Press Release: <http://tinyurl.com/7mhut> http://tinyurl.com/7mhut

Smart mobs, swarms, information markets, crowd wisdom, communities, idea
exchanges and knowledge markets -- all are getting a lot of popular
attention today. Why?

Because they are effective!

Top knowledge scientists, information market practitioners, business school
professors, think tanks, KM visionaries and prediction market tool providers
are converging for an important, one-day Summit in San Francisco/Silicon
Valley on the future of Prediction Markets.

Join Google, Yahoo!, Stanford GBS, Microsoft, HPLabs, CalTech and others for
a one-day, conversational deep-dive of knowledge markets at the new campus
of beautiful UCSF Mission Bay.

<http://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/PM/PM.htm>
http://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/PM/PM.htm

Sponsored, in part, by CommerceNet <http://www.commerce.net/>
http://www.commerce.net/ and NewsFutures
<http://us.newsfutures.com/home/home.html>
http://us.newsfutures.com/home/home.html.

<http://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/PM/PM.htm>
http://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/PM/PM.htm

Registration open, all are welcome. Tuition includes all materials, meals,
registration and refreshments.

Note: 'Clusters are conversations. Because of the low-cost, there are no
passes or discounts available.

Registration: <https://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/PM/Reg_SFO_PM05.htm>
https://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/PM/Reg_SFO_PM05.htm Registration in advance
rqr'd. No on-site registration.

Prediction Markets are a critical business and KM frontier. Why? Brush-up
here with Colabria Briefings.

<http://kmblogs.com/public/blog/105430>
http://kmblogs.com/public/blog/105430

Please forward this invitation in your professional orbit.

For future updates and announcements on prediction markets please simply
syndicate <http://kmblogs.com/> http://kmblogs.com or
<http://kmblogs.com/public/rss/85436> http://kmblogs.com/public/rss/85436.

Most cordially,

-john

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Example: Branded Online Public Markets


Media organizations such as Yahoo! use this engaging new forecasting
technology to collect the knowledge and wisdom of their online audiences.

Prediction markets are a great way to build and facilitate qualified
communities of online "prediction traders". It allows organizations to mine
their distributed knowledge and collective wisdom of their readers/viewers,
and deliver back dynamic new insights.


These qualified online communities, in turn, serve as a knowledge base to
third parties: "Ask our traders about how they perceive the prospects of
your products, your industry, your idea...". It is a fundamentally new way
to monetize the collective brain power of your audience, online communities
and readership.


Prediction markets enable the shift from a typical "one-way" broadcast
audience relationship to a broadband dialogue. They produce rich new
content, as media organizations give today's news and views, while audiences
deliver back tomorrow's forecasts, continuously, and in real-time.


For instance, <http://research.yahoo.com/> Yahoo! Research and publishing
powerhouse <http://www.oreilly.com/> O'Reilly have teamed up to create the
Tech Buzz Game <http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/> , a public prediction
marketplace for high-tech products, concepts and trends. First launched
<http://us.newsfutures.com/home/BuzzGamePR.html> in March 2005 during
O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies Conference in San Diego, CA, and populated
by some of the world's savviest technologists, The Tech Buzz Game is
designed to forecast the success of new technologies. This application was
developed with NewsFutures software
<http://us.newsfutures.com/home/trader.html> .


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