Prediction Markets are here…

Well they always were. We are beginning to realize the presence.
Dus Ka Dum (power of 10) is a reality show hosted by popular Indian actor, Salman Khan. The show progresses by asking the player a question, the answer of which tries to predict a percentage. A possible question is “What percentage of votes will the [...]

Age of the Wikimania: the importance of online collaboration

The Web 2.0 and the easy access to bandwidth has ushered in some new paradigms in collaboration. The rise of the wikipedia (in general the open source wiki frameworks such as mediawiki) and P2P frameworks have transformed knowledge sharing in the open-source (or should i say open-knowledge) world.