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April 1, 2005
categories: press, projects
The Tech Buzz Game
Technology soothsayers can put their predictions to the test as part of a research project merging search-query data with a virtual, online marketplace.— eWeek
The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends. It is a joint research project between Yahoo! Research Labs and O'Reilly Research.
As a player, your goal is to predict how popular various technologies will be in the future. Popularity or buzz is measured by Yahoo! Search frequency over time.
Predictions are made by buying virtual stock in the products or technologies you believe will succeed, and selling stock in the technologies you think will flop. In other words, you "put your play money where your mouth is."
This was just about the last project that I worked on before leaving Yahoo.