Nostradamical Overview

We believe that given the right environment and framework groups of people can predict the outcome of events with better overall success than individuals. Influences by James Surowiecki's book, 'The Wisdom of Crowds', and Jeff Howe's book, 'Crowdsourcing' we started mulling over ideas for a 'sociable prediction market' in early 2007. This is what we came up with. You can read more about some of...More»

We believe that given the right environment and framework groups of people can predict the outcome of events with better overall success than individuals. Influences by James Surowiecki's book, 'The Wisdom of Crowds', and Jeff Howe's book, 'Crowdsourcing' we started mulling over ideas for a 'sociable prediction market' in early 2007. This is what we came up with. You can read more about some of the issues we had along the way at this blog post.

We want to give people a voice and a platform for expressing their opinions without having to start a blog or build a website. Through Nostradamical visitors can sign up and in minutes publish an opinion to the world. We want to see more of this and believe this rich diversity of opinion combined with the right tools to capture and filter user generated content is driving the web's current evolution.«Less