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"I'm a big fan of the \"wisdom of crowds\".  For those who haven't read it yet, the basic premise of the book is a large group of people makes better decisions than a small panel of experts.  The author cites Google's PageRank system as a prime example of the process.  For web experts, the book is extremely interesting - the web is the greatest decentralized sytem ever, and perfect for harnessing the wisdom of crowds.\nSo of course, I was glad to hear from the Yahoo! Search Blog that Yahoo is relaunching its Tech Buzz Game, which is basically a prediction market (like a stock market) for emerging technologies.  The site records a product's \"buzz\" (based on Yahoo searches) and the current market price (based on how many people are \"buying\").  While I'm not too sure how to interpret the stats, here are some interesting tidbits I came across:\n\u2014While Yahoo! Music is generating lots of searches, iTunes has better prospects\n\u2014Surprisingly, Gawker Media is way ahead of Weblogs Inc by all accounts\n\u2014Google Desktop is likely to become the biggest desktop search app\n\u2014Google Maps is currently lagging behind MapQuest\nWhat's more, if you think you know better, you can \"invest\" in the market yourself - all for fun, of course!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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