- Launched or not?
It’s been quiet around askmarkets.com lately, hasn’t it?
At least on the outside it has, because inside we’ve been cooking up a bunch of new features and ironing out a few or more bugs. But, let me pre-empt your very probable question: No, we haven’t launched quite yet!
Or have we? Well, at least for those of you who have already subscribed to askmarkets, we’ve now kind-of launched, as you can easily and quickly invite all of your friends! Just create a market or navigate to your profile to import your contact list from your gmail, yahoo or hotmail account and choose who you want to invite to play with you @ askmarkets.com! Because what goes for most things also is true for askmarkets: the more …. the merrier :)
And, if you haven’t received an invitation, but are really curious to check out askmarkets, just post here a comment to receive an invite, so simple!
Ah - and this is for all of you, subscribers or not - check out our new videos! It’s supposed to give you a better idea about what takes place behind the askmarket curtains. So, take a look and leave your comments, we really would like to hear from you!
- 5, 4, 3, 2… (still counting)
No, we’re not launching quite yet. Numerous long nights and working weekends of two guys in the lab just aren’t enough to ship a great service. And, while we do are aware of the “ship, then test” art-of-the-start approach, our first aim is to engage you, early-adopters, to test crunch and provide us with feed back on our prediction markets platform, before really going live and wild. So, just sign up for our launch alert and rest assured that a private invitation will be waiting in your inbox real soon.
We also think it’s time to pay tribute to some people whose work has taken us a long way.
- i) David Pennock of Yahoo Research and his academic contributions for inspiring our research efforts
- ii) Inkling markets and their business model which revolutionized the way we think about markets services
- iii) Chris Masse of Midas Oracle for triggering our market instinct on a daily basis
Continuing the countdown till the launch, we’ll keep you posted!
