Open Prediction Markets

I'm a big fan of HubDub. The user interface for events and trades is very easy to understand. And, lucky for me I'm in the top 10% of the leaderboard (my hubdub profile).

Recently, Simon Owens interviewed Nigel Eccles (who has no home page to link to...). The interview covered both HubDub and the sub-site PunditWatch which tracks pundits.

The "gaming" of anything is generally bad. In the case of prediction markets, there are occasionally some which easily be gamed by a broad audience. There is a new market on hubdub for:

How many results will a Google search for 'Switchy McSwitchenstein' yield by the end of April 2008?

There were recently two launches of prediction markets that are worth writing about: HubDub and The Industry Standard.

Prediction Market with News Aggregator