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San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com and Predictify Launch SFGate.com Prediction Center
New Partnership Enables Readers to Predict the News
Redwood City, Calif. - July 16, 2008 - Predictify, an online prediction platform that leverages the wisdom of crowds to add an interactive, forward-looking dimension to the news, today announced the launch of the SFGate.com Prediction Center in partnership with SFGate.com. As the online home of the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com delivers the latest news coverage for the San Francisco Bay Area and worldwide events, along with interactive tools for web readers. The SFGate.com Prediction Center enriches this interactive user experience by providing a forum for readers to truly engage in the news.
The SFGate.com Prediction Center invites its readership to research, debate, and predict the future on topics that interest them from politics to business, and sports to entertainment. Predictors are scored and ranked based on their accuracy in predictions, building a reputation for expertise over time. Predictify then aggregates readers' predictions into meaningful forecasts, generating unique, crowd-sourced editorial data for SFGate.com.
The SFGate.com Prediction Center launch is Predictify's latest deployment of its partner platform offering, which enables websites to create their own co-branded prediction centers with their own look and feel but with the analytic brawn of the Predictify technology.
"The prediction cycle includes a feedback loop that connects participants to world events as they unfold," said Parker Barrile, Co-Founder and CEO of Predictify. "Predictify is a great way for news sites like SFGate.com to engage readers in their coverage."
Predictify’s platform is ready for immediate deployment and can be customized for virtually any website or blog for free. For more information, visit Predictify at www.predictify.com
About Predictify
Predictify is a community-based prediction platform that makes predicting real-world events easy and fun. Users can research, discuss and predict the future, build a reputation based on their accuracy, and even get paid real money when they're right. Marketers can create awareness, engage consumers, and gather data by posting promotional questions about a product or service. Since its launch in October 2007, Predictify has partnered with the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Freakonomics, Mashable and ReadWriteWeb.
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