Trendio.com - Form a Gambling Problem With Fake Money
Posted on January 27, 2007, under Development.
I cam across Tredio.com from a comment to recent article. I have playing with the service for the last hour, and it’s addictive. Trendio.com is very much a “Web 2.0″ company, all the way down to the design. Trendio.com takes some of the ideas behind BlogShares and applies them to current events.
Trendio is the first current events stock exchange. It is a stock exchange where words from the news are the stocks. The value of the words is calculated according to their presence in the media. It makes it possible to visualize trends in the media and try to predict what will make the headlines tomorrow in a cool community-based game.
I have never been one for gambling, because my money is too hard earned to play around with. The reason why I like this service is it’s very much virtual, all for fun, and will never put you in the position of losing your house over a bad bet. The last note is, kudos to the service as signing up was extremely easy and I have not received any emails from them much like other services.
Full Disclosure: The links in this article have my account referral ID attached to them. If you sign up I will get “virtual money” to buy more “virtual stock”. I do not profit, physically, in any way from them. It’s just a game.
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