Meta Market

Created by genius Burak Arikan, Meta Markets is super fun.

It is a continuous stock market, up and running 24/7, like a living organism. It has many markets each composed of different values generated by people's products in networked public spaces. Current markets are open to all members for trading and for offering their own products to public (IPO). We select markets based on their popularity and accessibility through APIs. More markets will be added in the future.

If you want to join, let me know I am selling invitations (private message me in "comments").

Prediction market for corruption

For our pro-seminar class, a PhD requirement, Stefanie Tellex, Noah Vawter and Aaron Zinman and I am designing a prediction market for corruption. Our idea is that citizen can bet on the next congress that will be indicted.

Looking for visual tools and data analysis, I have found on Jaiunblog, the observatoire presidentiel web site.

It is an interactive presidential observatory. It allows individuals to visualize a tendançologue to follow the media popularity of main political French figures estimated for this election and this until the presidential elections of 2007.
The interactive µtendançologue considers also news from blogs, newsgroup, online press. It allows the user to compare between presidential online press.
This online observatory also proposes an interactive political blogopole map. The map represents the total of citizen's blogs that bring up political debates in France.


The Blogopole and a close-up on the French Green party