TechCrunch just posted about Guy Kawasaki’s newest venture: Truemors (I’m not including a link as all you get are annoying login messages at the moment). It was described as a “rumor reporting bulletin board with twitter-like capabilities.â€? Which sure hits the buzzwords nicely; really, is there a startup that is not trying to either: become the next twitter, subvert twitter, wind themselves deeply into twitter?
Anyway, whatever shape it turns up in, I do think it would be an interesting thing to have a site that acted as some sort of truth sifting device. People “bid” or “vote” or indicate in some calculable way what stories they think are true and then get rewarded or punished based upon their historical accuracy. Generally these are known as Prediction Markets and I find the whole notion of a mobile / quickly distributed one very interesting.
WHAT TO DO NOW?