Trendio.com is an online stock market game, much like BBC’s Celebdaq. When you join, you get a fake $10,000 to invest in words and phrases.

The game works by the player purchasing shares in a choice of pre-chosen words & phrases. These word’s frequency in the media affects the price of the shares; the word’s frequency is done by grabbing Yahoo! News every 60 minutes.One thing I don’t find very Web 2.0 about this service is the fact that players can’t add words, nor do they have a say in which words will be added. I believe this is due to license restrictions, though I’m sure the latter option is possible. I believe it is important to give the user’s some say, to add a social side to the website.

Celebdaq runs in a similar manner, though it’s only for celeb’s names.

In my opinion, Trendio has a fairly clean layout, though I’d love to see some AJAX (perhaps when buying shares?).

I have to admit I don’t find it as addictive as BlogShares, but it’s still fairly good!

Tags: Trendio, game, celebdaq, web 2.0, web2, web2.0, web 2