Comments on: PicksPop - Bet on Pop Culture Stuff

By: Edopter Attempts “Social Trendcasting” Through Crowdsourcing And Internet Buzz : Oragle

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:30:48 +0000

[...] and predict milestones for each item. Another similar application is PicksPop, where users can predict and bet on celebrity gossip and pop culture. There’s also CoolSpotters, a site where users can [...]

By: Edopter Attempts “Social Trendcasting” Through Crowdsourcing And Internet Buzz

Edopter Attempts “Social Trendcasting” Through Crowdsourcing And Internet Buzz — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:53:32 +0000

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Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:47:44 +0000

By: Ram

Ram — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:36:28 +0000

a similar site for betting on Cricket macthes is at http://cric.13links.com

By: Wyoming Dude

Wyoming Dude — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:02:58 +0000

I think it’s pretty neat. I wonder if they’ll be good at picking the Oscars. The Wisdom of the Crowds thing applied to different verticals is a cool idea if it truly predicts outcomes.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:06:57 +0000

Josh & Scott - yeah, we’re putting it back up. We’ve had a bunch of server issues the last couple of days that we were sorting through, and we pulled MBL off to see if it was a problem. Don’t think it was.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:02:41 +0000

Fafarazzi.com is another one in the celebrity-game space. We’re more based on the fantasy sports model, though.

By: Scott Rafer

Scott Rafer — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:42:33 +0000

@Josh

We needed to fix a few software scaling issues plus more hardware is going in now. Michael knows the score and kindly reached out to me before pulling the trigger.

By: Grange

Grange — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:01:44 +0000

The design isn’t great, but it’s not horrible. I think the site looks like fun — I’ll probably end up playing this game more than I use any of those web 2.0 sites. A couple of other celebrity/game sites exist, but this one looks much better.

By: Accuse

Accuse — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:57:28 +0000

I prefer the fantasy stock-exchange approach of trendio.com. The 2 websites have the same goals (betting, prediction for fun, social network features) but Trendio’s index of popularity and the possibility to buy the celebrities and other words is funnier in my mind.

By: ginchy

ginchy — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:52:15 +0000

My Second Life avatar got addicted to virtual gambling on PicksPal. I tried looking for a virtual therapist for him, but they were all busy dealing with people who were hooked on furry porn. Stupid internet.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:41:19 +0000

Hi Robert!

Totally agree with the navigation looking like google ad links…quite the turn off.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:37:49 +0000

Also, it looks like TC took down the MyBlogLog sidebar.

Any rhyme or reason for this? Spamming? Personally I thought it cluttered up the sidebar, but at the same time, I love MyBlogLog.

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:37:28 +0000

Josh - long time no talk!!

There are a couple of things I don’t like about their design… The first is the navigation at the top - the links look like Google Ad links. The other thing that I’m not a fan of is “folder-like” feel of the content in the center of the page.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:34:07 +0000

For some reason I dont like the design of their site…cant put my finger on it.

By: China Market Blog

China Market Blog — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:11:54 +0000

$6 million?

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:52:33 +0000

It should be noted that it’s not really “betting” as most people think of it (i.e. cash). Instead, it appears that you get a set number of points and you can bet your points on a specific event occurrence. You can then cash out your points for prizes.

By: Fashion Industry Ceo

Fashion Industry Ceo — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:44:26 +0000

Sounds like a great idea mike…really like the idea of pickspop and picikspal…both seem great for building a large online audience