Comments on: Trendio - Bet on News Trends

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ZiiTrend: The Latest Social Prediction Website — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:13:14 +0000

[...] up with a group prediction based on every player’s vote. Unlike a true prediction market like Trendio, though, where players actually trade virtual stocks around events and predictions are derived from [...]

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By: Connecty

Connecty — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:50:41 +0000

The new Trendio was launched today!!

By: Webby's World

Webby's World — Mon, 22 May 2006 21:07:33 +0000

Trendio…

Trendio.com is an online stock market game, much like BBC’s Celebdaq. When you join, you get a fake $10,000 to invest in words & phrases.The game works by the player purchasing shares in a choice of pre-chosen words & phrases. These wor…

By: Thought Flow » Predictive market websites- betting on the future

Thought Flow » Predictive market websites- betting on the future — Thu, 18 May 2006 01:37:02 +0000

[...] The most recent site to launch in the predictive market space is Trendio, the self-described “first stock exchange on headlines news”. It works like many other predictive sites: when you sign-up, you’re given $10,000 in virtual money for investing. For example, you might invest in the topics “Bush” or “gas prices” if you think that future headline news will include these words with increasing frequency. Read Michael Arrington’s full review here. [...]

By: davedonohue.com » Trendio and Web 2.0

davedonohue.com » Trendio and Web 2.0 — Wed, 10 May 2006 05:51:39 +0000

[...] I have to admit that a lot of Web 2.0 is hard for me to grasp, but sites like TechCrunch help ease the learning curve. One site of particular interest is Trendio, where users can bet on what will appear in future headlines. [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 06 May 2006 18:31:05 +0000

Someone above pointed out the BBC pages… but there’s also the Hollywood Stock Exchange (hsx.com) and the Foresight Exchange, which has been around for years: http://www.ideafutures.com/

Pete Cashmore at Mashable reported on some similar “fake stock exchange” type sites a few weeks ago. The idea is nothing new.

By: drunkmen

drunkmen — Fri, 05 May 2006 15:05:42 +0000

The same idea indeed, Marc, “the first stock exchange on headline news!” Created in december 2004: http://mediamammon.drunkmenworkhere.org/about.php

Trendio uses Yahoo as well to calculate the current value, it says on it’s blog.

Will the folks of Trendio create an option market of high scores too?
http://metamammon.drunkmenworkhere.org/about.php

By: Marc Köhlbrugge

Marc Köhlbrugge — Fri, 05 May 2006 13:25:33 +0000

http://drunkmenworkhere.org has a game with same idea, created a year ago I think

By: Tony K’s got something to Say » Blog Archive » Trendio–a newsworthy market game

Fri, 05 May 2006 12:03:37 +0000

[...] I just read about Trendio on TechCrunch. The site is an on-line trading market of news terms. By registering (for free) you are given $10,000 in play cash to buy words that you think will be newsworthy, newsworthiness is measured by the number of appearances words make in the 3,000 online news sites Trendio scans. The more a word or name appears your portfolio will increase and vice-versa for waning terms. [...]

By: Robert Bell

Robert Bell — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:32:34 +0000

The bbc have been doing something similar for many years; celebdaq uses shares in celebrities, where the more press coverage a celebrity gets, the more their stock increases. They have one for sports stars too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sportdaq/

By: webforth » Blog Archive » Trendio.com - The first stock exchange on headline news

Fri, 05 May 2006 09:07:48 +0000

[...] Via TechCrunch [...]

By: John T. Maloney

John T. Maloney — Fri, 05 May 2006 07:20:33 +0000

Hi –

Thanks for the link. These prediction markets are exploding. The next cluster for these is June 7 in Chicago.

http://www.pmcluster.com/

They are non-commercial action/research. All are welcome.

Cheers,

-j
http://kmblogs.com/

By: Saul Weiner

Saul Weiner — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:55:07 +0000

Really silly website. Just another pets.com.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:49:18 +0000

Nick, I fear your skillz way too much.

By: Nick Douglas

Nick Douglas — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:43:53 +0000

Not gonna bite my linkbait play my game?

By: Andrew West

Andrew West — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:14:33 +0000

Michael,

You always make wonderful choices and have some of the best bits of reading that I have been able to find on the net. (Btw, I made the comment about myspace last week you agreed with & also sent you an email today at your editor@ email address. (Just pointing that out so you know how much I do follow your work and appreciate). Keep up the good work, and I look forward to seeing what good comes out of this. :p

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:10:27 +0000

Andrew - I actually agree with you on that. I do have a reason for putting it up that will make sense in a week or two.

By: Andrew West

Andrew West — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:05:35 +0000

wow.. this is the absolutely the worst website I have seen appear on TC in the longest time. I went, and registered and I hope that the final version is far more along.

By: Evgueni Pervago

Evgueni Pervago — Fri, 05 May 2006 01:13:06 +0000

Interesting idea in terms of “Can I guess the next big thing?”, but it’s not a market as the prices are set externally, not by supply and demand within it.

An alternative could be a betting market on news with a fixed expiration date and value determined as already on Trendio, by frequency of mentions.

By: TheWeb20Dev

TheWeb20Dev — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:55:11 +0000

Ill have to check it out. Yay for french translations.