[p2p-research] Fwd: Meta-Markets updates

[Michel Bauwens]

Has anyone been following this, any perspectives on the evolution of this
first p2p stock market?

Michel

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Burak Arikan <arikan at media.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:39 AM
Subject: Meta-Markets updates
To: postmaster at meta-markets.com


Dear Meta-Markets participant,

We would like to give you an update about some changes that will take place
in Meta-Markets this weekend.

Saturday-Sunday, Feb 16-17

+ Del.icio.us Market will now include Del.icio.us accounts instead of single
bookmarks as entities.
As you know stocks in Del.icio.us Market have been bookmarks so far,
contrasting the rest of the markets where the stocks are account-based.
Del.icio.us market has been a one-off experiment and we all enjoyed this
experimental model. However, based on our observations and the responses we
get from active participants, we realized that Del.icio.us stocks are
dominating the markets in an unfair way and it is time to transition
Del.icio.us Market into an account-based market. Once transition is
complete, the Del.icio.us stocks will be removed from your portfolio and you
will be refunded the total amount of your Del.icio.us stocks' worth.

Sunday, Feb 17

+ Fair Value calculations will be updated in all markets based on new
formulas.
In the new fair value formulas, we have incorporated more parameters (e.g.
amount of content generated,  efficiency of social network etc.) in order to
have a more accurate reflection of the stock's performance in its respective
domain. Also, we are hoping that this will contribute to the re-balance
stock values across all markets.

+ Market Activities interface will be re-organized to show information more
relevant to your stocks.
The new market activities section will highlight your stocks within the all
market activities stream. Also, we will integrate an icon vocabulary to help
visually differentiate the types of activities.

+ Finally each stock page will show recent content activity in the stock's
respective domain.
For example, a Flickr stock will feature the latest photos uploaded, a
Feedburner stock will include the summary of the latest blog post etc. This
will help reinforce the connection between the account activity in its
domain and the stock's activity in Meta-Markets. Also, we will have more
up-to-date content within markets.

That's it for now! More to come. Let us know if you have any concerns about
these changes, simply by replying to this email.
Meta-Markets Team



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