Talk:Geeks and Baseball/@comment-69.2.120.11-20060322105557

Information markets are only going to go as far as there is liquidity and incentives to trade accurately. Tradesports involves real $ so it has all the incentives built in. Google is a 20% project that got only 1000 people trading out of 8000 people in the company (if it were a better information tool, there would be a Google Markets product).

But alot of these newer market sites, Inklingmarkets.com and CrowdIQ with their slick web 2.0 interface are examples of information markets that fail, either due to bad incentives, bad interface, lack of trading etc. Checkout the www.mashable.com blog; pretty interesting thoughts on this subject.