Speaking to a couple of people it seemed clear that a lot of folks didn't really see the point in the idea. Maybe everyone isn't as pedantic as myself.
This got me wondering about the barrier to entry. I had already planned to fully use open ID so that the signup process would be virtually eliminated. I then got to thinking that maybe the act of filling in the basic form for making a prediction would reduce the number of users.
I think the PoLR guys suggested being able to make a prediction from twitter. I really liked this idea. I started playing about with various possibilities and it looks like users will be able to make predictions from a whole set of different sources:
Twitter - requires no initial visit to site
Google Wave - requires no initial visit to site (need to double check google wave auth system)
Blog (any platform) - requires 1 initial visit to site to register blog.
Facebook - Looks like it should be possible, still to be confirmed.
Msn, and others - still investigating.
Forums - no feasible method found, yet.
Email - has huge complications, not sure it will be feasible in the short term.
Other issues raised
Visibility: can a prediction be limited to just friends/specific users, or is it public?
Group Predictions: can a prediction be owned by more than one person?
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