Trendio is a rather new website that lets people setup a free account. With the free account they are given $10,000 of fake money, which they can use to bet/invest in keywords or names that are likely to explode in the headlines soon.
Based on how much those names or keywords take off, will predict how much money a person can win/earn in the Trendio Game. Trendio focuses a great deal on technology, but does have a politics section, so players, pundits, analysts, news hounds and bloggers and more can bet or invest their hard earned fake money on names that might launch into the news stratosphere in the future.
You can also pit your skills against other players. So if you think you can spot the news trends in politics from the perspective of what will make more news (so buy before hand) or what will make less news (so sell before it falls off) you might even win some real prizes.
I entered a political contest myself to give it an initial try. I was able to select the words North Korea and John McCain, but not Chris Dodd. I entered a few others like Iraq, Chavez and Minimum wage. Will those names spike in the next four days? Not sure, but I bet they will in the next month.
I do not know what it takes to get a key word listed yet, but I will continue to monitor and find out. If nothing else it is just a game, but possibly an interesting way to spot trends in the news according to what really is getting covered and what is not getting covered.
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