株が上がる literally means “stock price is rising” but sometimes people use this expression to compliment you if you do or say something that makes you look cool. あなたの株上がった！In others words, your action makes your market value goes up. Technorati Japan has taken this concept and created the 芸能証券 Geinou Shoken site which tracks the popularity of celebrities in Japan. Each celebrity has a four digit stock code similar to company stocks in Japan and is listed on exchanges with names that parody the real Japanese stock exchanges e.g. Mothers→Sisters, Hercules→Pegasus, Jasdaq→Gasdaq. The price of each geinojin is calculated daily by the number of times the person’s name is mentioned in blogs, news articles etc. The idea is similar to Blogshares but you can’t buy and sell the celebrities. Too bad I think I would buy up Haruka Ayase in a second. That’s her 3 month daily chart above. Geinoshoken is interesting and serves as a convenient database for looking up the names of talento but I don’t really see this serving any other purpose. Since my work revolves around the presentation and delivery of stock market data over the Internet, I found it interesting to see how they used the financial market concepts with celebrities. They should really have a fundamentals section listing the celebrities vital statistics, skills, experience etc. That would be a better way to measure the valuation of the person.
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