What’s geekier than Fantasy Baseball and D&D rolled into one? It’s the Tech Buzz Game, a fantasy market-based prediction game announced by Yahoo! today. Players compete by purchasing stocks in products or technologies they believe will succeed and by dumping those destined to flop. Available prizes include Mac Minis, passes to O’Reilly events, iPods, and [...]

What’s geekier than Fantasy Baseball and D&D rolled into one?

It’s the Tech Buzz Game, a fantasy market-based prediction game announced by Yahoo! today.

Players compete by purchasing stocks in products or technologies they believe will succeed and by dumping those destined to flop. Available prizes include Mac Minis, passes to O’Reilly events, iPods, and the guaranteed-to-render-you-dateless I’m a Buzz Market Maven! t-shirt.

Gordon Gould of WeblogsInc. has more from the O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, where he wonders how easy this will be to game.

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