BlogShares is a fantasy stock market where weblogs are the companies. Players invest fictional dollars on shares in blogs. Blogs are valued by their incoming links and add value to other blogs by linking to them. Prices can go up or down based on trading and the underlying value of the blog. If your blog is not yet in their database, you can easily add it.

Blogshares is a product of Santa Cruz Tech which also has QuackTrack, billed as the “The world’s largest browsable blog index”. It looks like the two sites are driven off the same database. Another interesting service they have developed is padbot. Send it simple questions by SMS or email and it responds with relevant information.

By the way, we recommend EBB as a strong buy.

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