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Any predictions for which team will win? Comments about your overall experience with Markstrat? Markstrat was an experience of humbling frustration; but I benefited from having good teamates and learned about sticking together when things aren’t going your way. I would like to re-do Markstrat later in the program. It would be interesting to see how things would turn out.
 * Markstrat**

I enjoyed MarkStrat; our team worked well together, and I think it was a beneficial learning experience. Finding out what works and what doesn't is sometimes hard...you think you're doing the right thing, but it ends up having the totally wrong results. But again, a good learning experience and something that I think will help me in future situations.

__**Participation**__


 * [|Collective Intelligence]**Thoughts/Examples?

I think Collective intelligence is an awesome resource for companies to draw upon. I thought that Bzz agents from last weeks discussion really innovated how it can be used for marketing purposes. I also think that it is a great resource in technical fields. If you run into a problem and enough people look at it eventualy someone will come up with a solution. "Two heads are better than one".

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 * Cambrian House Case

__**Prediction Markets**__
 * Hollywood Trading

[|Crowd Sourcing]/[|Open Sourcing]**Do People really participate for glory? I think that crowd sourcing is a great and innovative way to collect ideas from sources that you would normally not be exposed to. People do compete for glory and recognition. I have seen many photo, writing and poetry contests that were strictly for being chosen as #1. Do we not all want to be employee of the month?

__**Balbir Pasha in India?**__ Hey all! Wanted to get my last WIKI participation points in... Though the Balbir Pasha campaign was a couple of years ago I've been keeping my eyes peeled for any sign of the famous character in Mumbai. Here's the closest thing I've found (forgive me if this offends you!):