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Mashable - 3/3/2008
Predictify Platform Launches with Freakonomics
Predictify is offering a platform for others to create co-branded Predictify communities. The first to participate in the new platform offering is none other than Freakonomics. This should make for some interesting material for Freakonomics’ next book, right?
Oregon Daily Emerald - 2/21/2008
8 Websites That Will Change Your Life
The best of the Web focus on interactivity and customization to change the way you live your life online.
Marketplace (American Public Media / National Public Radio) - 2/5/2008
Predictifying the Future
A new website, Predictify.com, is trying to make collective wisdom into a profitable business by allowing people to guess the outcomes of everything from elections to stock prices. Marketplace's Sean Cole reports.
InfoWorld - 12/10/2007
Mob Wisdom Means Business
So-called 'crowdsourcing' lets companies create massive focus groups, garner fresh ideas, and even predict the future
Freakonomics Blog (NYTimes.com) - 10/25/2007
A New Prediction Market for the Masses
There's a new site that looks to be as vast, inclusive, and user-friendly as anything I've seen: Predictify. If the audience proves to be dependable, might soon become every marketer's best friend.
The Dilbert Blog - 10/24/2007
Hiring Republicans
... I get special rights to look at the demographics of the predictors to see what kind of correlations there are. Notice the difference in average predictions by political affiliation: Republicans 352,000, Democrats 286,000, Independents: 275,000. Are Republicans more optimistic than Democrats, and are they projecting that optimism on my book? That’s my hypothesis ...
WebWare (CNET) - 10/10/2007
Predictify Pays You to Change the Future
It's one of the cleverest Web 2.0 mind games I've seen in a while, and it just might work ... they've made it easy and somewhat fun to play, and certainly when there's the potential of earning some money by answering simple questions that only take a few seconds each, people are going to try a least a little to be right.
Mashable - 10/8/2007
Predictify Goes Live Today: Make Money for Being Right
...Throw experts into the mix, however, and you’ve got better data to work with. That’s why Predictify lets accurate users move up in ranking and achieve expert status, which lets them earn more money and weigh in higher for various predictions.
Press Releases
3/3/2008
Freakonomics and Predictify Launch Prediction Center
Freakonomics Partners With Predictify to Make Its Blog More Interactive
1/2/2008
Predictify and The New York Times Launch 2008 Football Playoffs Challenge
New Prediction Game Challenges Football Fans to Prove Their Expertise
12/3/2007
Predictify "Challenges" Members to Test Their Prediction Skills Against Friends
New Challenges Feature Offers Fun Prediction Game Environment For the Competitor in Everyone
11/19/2007
University of Iowa Democrats and Predictify Team Up to Prepare for Presidential Election
Influential Student Organization Taps Collective Wisdom of Internet Users to Prepare for Visiting Presidential Candidates
11/8/2007
Hillary Clinton to Win 2008 Presidential Election, Say Predictify Users
A Year Before Voters Head to the Polls, They.re Out in Full Force Predicting
10/23/2007
Dilbert Creator Uses Predictify to Predict Sales of New Book
Scott Adams, Dilbert Creator and Author, Taps Into Collective Wisdom to Predict Sales Volume, Assess Market Demographics for New Book "Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!"
10/8/2007
Predictify Launches Prediction Platform That Allows Internet Users to Make Money by Predicting Future Events
New Platform Enables Members to Predict the Outcomes of Real-World Events, Build Reputations as Experts and Get Paid for Their Accuracy
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