http://www.nostradamical.com/blog Discussing news and ideas around Nostradamical.com Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:12:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey folks, sorry for the site service disruption over the last couple of days. We had some domain issues with a Chinese company. But hey, it's all sorted now. Nostradamical.com is back up for business with the latest long term predictions on world events. And how about checking out our new ... http://www.nostradamical.com/blog/185-were-back If you're not on Twitter, you're not on the planet We're now streaming all the prediction activity from our members at Nostradamical.com to our Twitter page. We're doing this via our FriendFeed page which I have to say has a lot more flexibility and features that Twitter. But hey, these ... http://www.nostradamical.com/blog/179-streaming-our-prediction-market-to-twitter At Nostradamical.com we love predictions. Our community is thinking about the future, mostly. So we were chatting this week on our fav time travel characters in popular fiction. Here they are... 1. Doc Emmett Brown (Back To The Future 1, 2 & 3). The wild eyed scientist played perfectly by Christopher ... http://www.nostradamical.com/blog/70-8-fictional-futurists-we-love At Nostradamical.com we've started using the SocialMention.com API to pull in realtime blog posts, news, videos and comments against each one of our predictions in our prediction market. This makes it easier for our users to gauge the latest web opinions on predictions like, 'Will Chris Brown do jail time ... http://www.nostradamical.com/blog/165-were-getting-real-time-social-gossip-from-socialmentioncom Login and get stated in seconds with Facebook Connect We've added Facebook integration to Nostradamical.com using the wonderful Facebook Connect platform. This means visitors can now login to Nostradamical.com using their existing Facebook login, which is super fast and easy. It also means users can publish their Nostradamical predictions back to ... http://www.nostradamical.com/blog/149-announcing-facebook-integration-at-nostradamicalcom So we've launched our first YouTube video which rapidly charts the computing technology milestones of the last 100 years and asks, 'where are we heading next?'.  We're really excited about it and it was fun to create.  Check out our YouTube channel PredictionTV (cheesy but 'Nostradamical' was taken...). The concept We wanted to ask, 'what have been ... http://www.nostradamical.com/blog/111-technology-100-years-of-past-predictions-sort-of-video At Nostradamical.com we're all about predictions - predictions on future events, world affairs and hot topics on the public's mind. So naturally we're interested in the whole social search and 'real time search' debate. We've listed out some real time & social search resources currently available that give users the ability to monitor what's ... http://www.nostradamical.com/blog/101-get-ahead-of-the-curve-8-useful-social-search-tools Welcome to 'Crowd Gazer', the monthly roundup of who is predicting what at Nostradamical.com and what trends we are seeing from our user community. All predictions and forecasts at Nostradamical.com are created by you, the public. Up, up and away! So January saw us off to our public launch with a great response ... http://www.nostradamical.com/blog/80-crowd-gazer-whos-predicting-what-in-feb-09 We've been asked several times how our members can write good predictions that will get interest and popularity from visitors. As Nostradamical.com is like a large multi-user blog many of the tips for good blogging apply for good prediction writing. So here are our top 10 tips: Avoid obvious predictions. They're not that ... http://www.nostradamical.com/blog/62-10-tips-for-writing-good-predictions After 4 months of Private Beta testing and tweaking today we launch into Public Beta. So sign up and create some predictions! Thanks for taking part in our Private Beta   For the last few months we've been busy making changes to Nostradamical.com based on continuing feedback from our beta testers. We've made ... http://www.nostradamical.com/blog/57-were-live-nostradamicalcom-public-beta-launch-today