As I make my way down Cannon Street, I feel like death warmed up. I’ve had a bad cold for three or four days, and I’ve used the magical power of cigarettes to develop a simultaneous cough of room-shaking proportions. I’m off to see Julie Meyer at Ariadne Capital. Julie is perhaps best-known as the [...]
Tag Archives: investment
Betting on Search
September 18, 2006 – 6:04 pm
My post on Saturday about prediction markets being a useful way to access collective intelligence brought a response from Gary of Tall Street. Tall Street is a new search engine which operates a form of stock market on search results. You search for and add sites to the system and invest pretend money in the [...]
Stock Tip: Bet on Collective Intelligence
September 16, 2006 – 10:08 am
As I’ve observed before, marshalling collective intelligence, or the wisdom of crowds, on the Internet isn’t always very easy. Social news voting sites like digg are susceptible to social influences. Wikis are also weakened by this: do you really want to edit what your boss says? One way, though, to generate the necessary conditions (independence, [...]
Premier league?
July 31, 2006 – 5:21 pm
E-consultancy reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair paid a visit to Silicon Valley on Sunday:
Hopefully the PM will have left with some ideas about how to create an environment in which dotcom and tech start-ups can flourish here in the UK.
The visit saw Blair urged to set up his own blog, as well to change [...]
