We notice future predictions every day from the media, such as forecast on weather, gas price, astrology, Dow Jones Index, and etc. These predictions only wrap a tiny part of exciting topics. With an explosive expansion of online social networking and information sharing, it is getting easier to group like-minded users to predict the future collectively in a wide array of topics. With these positive conditions, social prediction is becoming an emerging trend of the Internet.

The inspiration of ZiiTrend’s social prediction platform is that, a community can predict the future better than any individual can, through group prediction and knowledge sharing.

ZiiTrend is a pioneer of social prediction platform launched on September 25th, 2007. It encourages users to have fun “seeing” the future by actively exchanging ideas and information. ZiiTrend covers a wide range of topic categories including finance, technology, politics, sports and entertainment. Within each prediction topic, users can submit their individual predictions, and the web site uses these submitted values to calculate a consensus prediction value. The consensus value is called “ZiiValue”, and it represents the collective wisdom of the ZiiTrend community.

For example, a prediction topic is “Who will win the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election on November 4, 2008“. If “Candidate A” has a ZiiValue of 33%, it means the ZiiTrend community estimates “Candidate A” will have 33% chance in winning the election.

ZiiTrend is dedicated to help users in unlocking the power of social prediction. With the ZiiTrend Prediction Channel, publishers and bloggers can easily build a prediction community for their websites. Registered ZiiTrend users are provided with a Prediction Channel, where they can broadcast their predictions to their readers. The channel can also be embedded in any web page.