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The future cannot be predicted. But, even if it could, we would not dare to act on the prediction. - Arie de Geus in The Living Company

I recently wrote about the prediction market I won . I told you I got a full-pass to the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston (June 2010). In short, my company won't pay for travel expenses, so I can't go regrettably. So, who wants my full-pass to the conference. Leave a comment and I'll select one of you with the best motivation!

Prediction Markets have intrigued me for some time now. I've been reading about them in books such as 'The Wisdom of Crowds' and 'We are Smarter than Me' and 'Wikinomics' . The examples they give are inspiring. But still I find the number of examples, also on the Internet, quite limited. And I think I understand why now. I'll explain why below. But first something great happened to me some time ago. For one I joined the 2.0 Adoption Council . Which is a great group of enterprise 2.0 practitioners and enthusiasts. It simply is a group of people in this area that want to learn from each other. And then recently the 2.0 Adoption Council set up a Prediction Market. Ah, this is great, I thought, it would give me the chance to experience a Prediction Markt in practice. So I jumped in! This prediction market was focused on Enterprise 2.0 business and technology. Several statements in this area were put up and the market kicked off. Every participant go...