Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Crystal Ballz

Today has been one of those “wild speculation” days – various subjects. It always seems to be the ill-informed who write the most on a subject. Maybe it’s something to do with the lack of clarity to drive brevity.

Anyway, I wondered if there was scope for a service called trust.me (note the very trendy .me extension – that domain is for sale it appears) which would be like a ‘Like’ button but would only appear on a blog post some 90-days after publication to enable readers to decide whether a particular random prediction had any merit. So you’d end up with some kind of “accuracy index” or a series of badges (yeah – I’m there) such as “Mystic Meg Badge: for a run of 20 inaccuracies” and so on.
Trust.me could partner with Instapaper to deliver a summary of previously read articles now past the ‘dodgy prediction’ phase for attention by those readers.

I’m only half-joking. Oh, and when someone turns it into a $100Bn company – you heard it here first web fans.