A New Ego Feeder
Holy crap, I've discovered a new incredible new way to waste time. I'd seen a couple of my Twitter folks mention/tweet transactions in something called EmpireAvenue, but didn't really give it much thought until I saw this post from Scoble.
Jeez, talk about an ego feeder ...
But then you dig a bit deeper and EmpireAvenue really does let you dig around and start finding people with whom you might like to connect. If you think about it, historically, finding and following Twitter (or Facebook, or whatever) friends is incredibly random ... someone you follow re-tweets an interesting tweet and then you jump on and follow as well. Let's face it, that is the epitome of random ... you are relying on people you know to maybe recommend other people you might want to know.
Using EmpireAvenue seems to let me find other people with similar interests or locations, and then to use their "stock price" to evaluate them in the context of their community; You can use this much like a Klout score, but based on how people are trading them ... kind of circular, but it seems to allow the cream to surface.
Going to follow / fiddle with this a bit ... maybe more later (if it doesn't flash in the pan like so many other social "experiments" in the past).
Normally I'd embed just the video, but in this case is worth watching vid in context of Scoble's text. Anyway, here's a link to full article: http://scobleizer.com/2011/04/15/this-social-media-stock-market-game-is-building-a-real-world-value-score-about-you/
