Yahoo O'Reilly Tech Buzz Game
Posted: Sat 06/24/2006 by ramiroThe Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for technology by Yahoo! Research and O'Reilly Media. Buzz Game players can buy virtual stock in technologies they consider popular and sell those that turn out to lack substance. A technologie's popularity (buzz) is measured in Yahoo! Search frequency over time.
After registering a Buzz Game account you start with an amount of $10,000 in fantasy dollars and can invest in technologies you expect to increase in value. Technologies are categorized into markets, such as Open Source, Entertainment, Network, and Web. In the Desktop Search market, for example, you can currently invest in the following competing technologies:
- Ask Jeeves Desktop Search
- Blinkx Desktop Search
- Copernic Desktop Search
- Google Desktop Search
- MSN Desktop Search
- Mac OS X Spotlight
- Yahoo! Desktop Search
The Buzz Game is a research project. One of it's purposes stated by Yahoo! is: to see if search buzz (including spikes and trends) can indeed be predicted by the collective wisdom of crowds in a market.
Happy trading!
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