It’s the most efficient way to dynamically aggregate information (a market). Inherently avert to biases (a bet), yet deliciously playful (a game). And you love it. Still, you need to visit the askmarkets marketplace and log in to participate. And two more steps away is a long distance on the web.
Compare this to the user experience of a dull poll widget: You set up your question, add the widget code in your website; then every visitor of yours is able to submit his quick answer. Such a hassle-free option is available around the web, but, still, it’s just a static poll, and you have learnt to ask for more. Markets, that is.
Today, askmarkets bring the two worlds together, by keeping their benefits alone. And we are happy to introduce you the askmarkets widget, what we consider a cross-industry innovation, enabling you to replicate the full askmarkets functionality straight from your website. Full? Well, almost. You’d better check it out and judge by yourself, here is how it works:
- You log-in to askmarkets, and create a new market.
By turning your question into a prediction about the future, while the answers are the various potential answers – it is possible for almost every topic out there.
Or you just pick among the already available markets, the catalog is big enough and it keeps growing.
- Then you grab the html code to add it in your website.
You can also customize all two colors and dimensions, it’s as simple as it gets and it blends in with your website style.
- Now the market question with all the answers and their probabilities gets monitored in real time right in your website.
But, it doesn’t stop there.
- Every visitor of your website is now able, not just to see the latest results, but also to co-shape them, by trading into the relevant market right from the widget.
It does not require a login, each visitor (and session) gets ¥€$1000 to trade within the market(s). By just clicking on the outcome of choice, the cursor moves to the ‘Invest’ text field, where you just enter the amount you want and press the invest button, while watching the prices getting updated in real time (if you want to have more play-money available, you need to log-in first).
Enough said. You’d better take a look in the widget below, or go straight away and create one for yourself; questions in your website will never be boring again :)
You may also try our marketplace solutions and services, and create some widgets right from your enterprise marketplace.
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AskMarkets’s widget don’t go into feeds —triple alas. | Midas Oracle .NET on Jul 17 09 at 8:01 am[...] 2009 — Leave a Comment It is the typical mistake made by the prediction market companies. They build a market chart widget that appear well on their website but don’t appear within the…. Most of the readers of Midas Oracle consume their prediction market information within a feed [...]
PanosJee on Jul 19 09 at 9:25 pmGeorge that s awesome, you could also use Facebook Connect like Disqus, but it needs a lot of polishing. We should discuss when I return from US
George Tziralis on Jul 19 09 at 9:33 pm@PanosJee Let me know when you are back, I’d love to hear your feedback :)
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