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Wednesday, June 07, 2006  


TWOCrowds - The Wisdom of Crowds

TWOCrowds - The Wisdom of Crowds
http://www.twocrowds.com/

TWOCrowds is a social predicting website which aims to let us all find out if our collective predicting ability can approach something bordering expertise. Create an account here (they predict zero spam) and type in as many predictions as come to your mind and ask your friends to do the same. Once a certain number of predictions are out there, it is hoped that some interesting patterns or relationships might emerge. If you see a prediction that you agree with, you can easily copy it to your list of predictions. TWOCrowds is also a mashup. A mashup is a website or web service that attempts to use the web as a platform for development by using (or consuming) application programming interfaces over the internet. These APIs are exposed by companies such as Yahoo, Google, eBay, Flickr, Amazon etc. to their own data - examples include maps from Google, traffic from Yahoo, book reviews from Amazon and photos from Flickr. Whenever a user clicks on a predictions (her own or someone else's) the text of the prediction is first run by Yahoo's Content Analysis/Term Extraction API to get the relevant terms out of the text as well as by Yahoo's News Search API to get any relevant news articles. The relevant terms returned by the term extraction API are once again routed through Yahoo's Image Search API to get the relevant images associated with the terms. Finally, a quick AJAX update displays these relevant image and news articles next to the prediction. This has been added to Prediction Markets Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:50 AM
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