Comments on: Buzz Game’s Back Baby

By: pete

pete — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:22:25 +0000

What Scott McMasters said about Google, Yahoo, Apple and Microsoft, i would love to see that as well

By: Timothy

Timothy — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:04:46 +0000

What Mark said above – please add Simpy. Simpy is an excellent social bookmarking service, and is much like Yahoo’s MyWeb. If you have ‘FEEDME’ (Feed me links?), I don’t get why you don’t have Simpy (and Furl, for example).

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:07:30 +0000

This is great, but what happened to the Social Bookmarks market? I’m a big Simpy fan, and Simpy was doing well in the previous encarnation of Buzz Game. Please get Simpy in there.

By: Scott McMasters

Scott McMasters — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 03:31:12 +0000

Sorry, Jerry, but this has to be off topic: I’ve been reading how Yahoo has helped imprison a journalist fighting for civil liberties in communist China. Saturday you said it was the law there and “Yahoo” (ie, you and its other directors since “Yahoo” isn’t a person with a free will) had to comply with the law in communist China. Well, Jerry, that’s a lot of horse shit. Nobody has to just roll over and hurt people, not for a bloody nickel. If you’re going to help screw good people over and hide behind “just following orders”, then I hope the whole world finds out, stops, thinks about it, and tells “Yahoo” no thanks. Make amends, apologize, work to release this guy, criticize China, and have some balls in the future.

By: Solynna

Solynna — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:32:53 +0000

this stuff is great!

By: Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:41:34 +0000

Hi,

I want to blog this tomorrow, so I’m just trying to clarify what these figures mean. You claim that Gnutella is the “P2P system on the march”, but BitTorrent is the highest valued stock – surely this suggests that BitTorrent simply hasn’t reached the mainstream yet. As I see it, if the highest valued stock is not the product generating the most buzz, this simply means that it is yet to flourish (ie it has not gone mainstream yet). Perhaps you could clarify how these figures should be interpreted?

I think the Tech Buzz Game is fascinating and I think it’s commendable that you’re trying out the wisdom of crowds theory. As your last commenter pointed out, it’s difficult to emulate perfectly the system that Surowiecki proposes, but I still believe this project will deliver some remarkable results.

As a tech investor, I’d love to see Google, Yahoo, Apple and Microsoft go head to head in the buzz game, but I can’t seem to see them listed. I’m sure there’s a good reason for this.

I also think that getting information out of this system is crucial. I see you have an API – any chance of RSS feeds?

PS. Keep up the great work :)

By: An

An — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:16:04 +0000

In a fantasy game where real investment is not at stake, people are prone to experiment and be adventurous. Even if crowds can forsee tech trends, they wont necessarily invest in stocks/markets that are bound to grow. They’d rather invest in stocks that will return money immediately. A game that runs for 6 months is not a good indicator. Collective wisdom can not be tested in a market that can be easily manipulated by the richer shareholders. If points were given only for predicting trends and not for investing in a market, that would be a better indicator.

My two pennies, :-)