Smarkets: An Amazon price rank prediction market
After my post this morning about the Y!/O' Buzz Market Game, I was pointed at Smarkets, a prediction market for Amazon products.
Each new product added becomes a "stock". Chart_pie If a product's Amazon's sales rank improves, its stock price goes up. And vice-versa. Chart_pie Traders buy, sell, short, and cover.Here's this month's Oprah's Book Club choice: "A Million Little Pieces". Very nice! Oh, and it's YARoR (Yet Another Ruby on Rails) site... who'd have thunk it.
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Steve Odom [01.04.06 11:29 AM]
Thanks for the plug Rael. Hope you like it. I just launched it so be gentle with any bugs you might find.
Yep, it is YARoR site. And it includes tags; imagine that. The tags are nice because you can group products together to compare their performance. For instance, being able to compare at a glance how Ruby on Rails books are doing compared to Java books. ; )