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Loading ...The latest version of Inking Markets has gone all Ajax and Ruby on Rails-looking… here’s a retrospective. I love Inkling Markets then and now. I hope this is still useful!
- Easy enough for your grandmother to use while powerful enough for anything
- Flexible tools allow any sort of event or outcome to be made into a market
- As easy to create a market as it is to participate in a market
- Only PM platform to offer widgets to include on blogs and SNS‘s
Inkling is a business, offering custom front-end interfaces powered by the Inkling engine.
- Private markets for friends
- Academic markets for research
- Business markets for intelligence
- Corporate markets for collaborating
Three simple steps:
- Enter a valid email
- Check INBOX for invitation
- Click on the validation link
- Fill out your name, user ID, and password
- You’re done
Immediately upon signing in, an attractive market is featured
- “Will Harry Potter be alive at the end of the last book of the series?�?
Most PMs are academic, expecting deep knowledge of investing – not Inkling!
- Inkling is for the common man – it asks, “what do you think?�?
Find a market that you like
- Since users can submit markets, the diversity of markets is high
Make your best judgment
- “Chances are higher than 53%�?
- “Chances are lower than 53%�?
Choose how many shares to “buy�?
Confirm purchase
- Is the order accurate?
- Do you have enough money?
- Are you going into debt?
You’re done
- Users are pointed to their portfolio
- Portfolio is called “dashboard�?
If you can’t find a market you like…
Click on “create market�?
Choose the type of prediction
- Single or multiple event occurrence
Choose a question of outcome
- Outcome must be proven
Fill out the details and terms
Choose a public or private market
Submit market for review
- Administrators maintain quality of the introduction of public markets
Once approved, the market is live.
Free public markets are only the tip of the iceberg
Los Alamos National Lab hosts their Collective Decision Making System (CDMS)
- http://cdms.inklingmarkets.com/
- Used for serious academic peer review
Other buzz surrounding the Inkling platform
- „ABC7-KGO San Francisco Launches a Marketplace with Inkling�?
- governmentfutures.net help clients understand the United States Federal Government
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