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December 11th, 2006

confab.yahoo update

Here is an update on the confab.yahoo on prediction markets happening this Wed Dec 13 at 5:30pm at Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale headquarters, Building C, Classroom 5.

  1. We’ve added Stanford b-school professor Eric Zitzewitz as a speaker
  2. We’ll hold an ad-hoc vendor session immediately following the event, tentatively featuring Collective Intellect, HedgeStreet, HSX, Inkling Markets, NewsFutures, and RIMDEX
  3. There will be food!
  4. We’ll be giving away a limited number of copies of Surowiecki’s book The Wisdom of Crowds
  5. We’re planning to webcast the event at two connection speeds: 100k | 300k

Again, the event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

December 11th, 2006

The Jelly Manifesto

Jelly is sticky. Spread it everywhere and see where users stick.