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!
Inkling is a powerful open PM platform
Markets by Inkling is a powerful prediction market platform
- 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
Walking through markets by Inkling
New visitors are requested to sign up for a free account
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????
Simple point & click trading on popular themes
Users start with $5,000 play money
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…
Make your mark with your own Inking market
Easy to create your own markets
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.
Inkling Markets is seriously important play
Inkling is one of the most user-friendly PM products
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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Also try http://www.trendio.com for those who like this kind of prediction games
If you are the owner of “Will Iran actually realize a viable nuclear power industry?”..
please close it. I have my inklings invested in it.