Prediction market round-up
Jed Christiansen at Mercury Research & Consulting has just posted an excellent and comprehensive listing of the many and varied prediction market companies and software solutions available today – a great resource and jumping off point for anyone wanting to research this emerging phenomenon. Although I think I understand why, I was surprised not to see Betfair listed: clearly for anyone in the UK interested in this space they will have already heard of it and it is perhaps not exactly a “prediction market” at least not in the same genre as many of the companies listed, nonetheless in other ways it is the shining success among outcome exchanges and especially in the US (due to Betfair’s strict adherence to US law) is not necessarily known or understood by everyone.
In any event, well done Jed for making this mini-survey available to all.
