Here’s a fun little tool. I’m not sure how to relate it to online advertising, but I’m sure you can figure something out. The website is called TWOCrowds, and it’s billed as a social prediction website. The concept is fairly simple – use mass opinion to predict and determine the outcome of future events.
I’m not sure how effective this is going to be because I find public opinion of future trends tends to become more accurate with fewer people, but hey it might be fun.
From TWOCrowds:
Welcome to TWOCrowds, a social predicting website. Here, you can share your predictions with the world and see how many others are of a similar mind and what they, in turn, predict will happen. You can add your predictions about anything:
- Politics (X will be the next President of the US)
- Sports (Team Y will win the Super Bowl or the World Series)
- Technology (Google or Yahoo will buy or merge with Company Z)
- Entertainment (Movie A or Actress B will win an Oscar)
… and so on. One of the goals of this website is to see how good all of us are, as a group, about predicting the future.