Casual Observer and Trendio

Casual Observer [http://casualobserver.net/] is a new market data provider (think Bloomberg, Reuters) for prediction markets.  It uses data feeds from Intrade [http://www.intrade.com/]  for analytics to enable decision making and to to also enhance/expand the consumer experience.

Trendio [http://www.trendio.com/en/]  is a stock market for news trends. Sign up and get $10,000 in fake money to trade on words. Trendio monitors their usage from various news sources, and the price increases or decreases based on how often the word appears in those sources.