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FastCompany: Airbnb launches new ID Verification
‘Today Airbnb introduced “Verified Identification,” a tool designed to ensure that a user’s online identity matches his or her offline identity. In an age of clinically insane YouTube commenters and...
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Zipcar: The Smarter Business Blueprint
“As a start-up, Zipcar disrupted the established car ownership model. We held the belief that the status quo was no longer the best way to meet people’s needs in the modern urban environment. The...
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Fast.Co Design: Experience is everything in the sharing economy
Image courtesy of Shutterstock “We increasingly consume products and services through renting, sharing, and purchasing subscriptions. Being “socially connected” is no longer just about having a lot of...
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KnowTex: Interviews with 40 OuiShare Fest presenters
The team at Knowtex, the creative community network, undertook the admirable task of interviewing 40 of the amazing speakers at OuiShare Fest in early May. These interviews are now all available to...
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GigaOm: RelayRides buys p2p carsharing rival Wheelz
“With a still small, but growing, market around people that want to rent out their personal cars to their neighbors, some consolidation seemed inevitable. On Tuesday startup RelayRides, which was one...
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The Sun: Shares Worth A Fortune
“I don’t own my own car and usually rely on public transport to get me around. But when I need to dash to Heathrow for an interview before visiting my brother in Guildford, Surrey, I find a better...
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Shareable: Mais Oui, We Share
Photo courtesy of Stefano Borghi “During the most impressive panel of the conference (that I saw), four whipsmart women talked about the intersection of the collaborative economy with government: Molly...
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Australian Financial Review: Building a Home to Share
“Visitors to David McCrae’s Sydney home, who are many and varied, note how perfectly the light, breezy space captures the spirit of the northern beaches locale. Then they head upstairs and unpack....
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NY Times: Young Americans Driving Less
“For six decades, Americans have tended to drive more every year. But in the middle of the last decade, the number of miles driven — both over all and per capita — began to drop, notes a report to be...
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WAMDA: Is The Arab World Ready for Collaborative Consumption?
“Wamda’s contributors have been torn about whether the Middle East is ready for a sharing economy- Ahmad Majid said that there are endless possibilities for sharing in Saudi Arabia, while Gulay Ozkan...
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Fast Co.Exist: What Motivates the Sharing Economy?
Image courtesy of Shutterstock “Most people who share, do it because they want to make the world a better place, according to a new national survey commissioned by AirBnb. This new survey gets at the...
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Airbnb: Update on NYC Accommodation Laws
Image courtesy of Shutterstock “Earlier this week, an administrative law judge in New York issued a new interpretation of the “shared space” exception to New York’s short-term rental restrictions,...
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The Telegraph: Drivers Spend 106 Days Looking for Parking
Photo from The Telegraph “The average motorist wastes a total of 2,549 hours circling the streets searching for a space whether it is on the school run, the local high street or a supermarket or...
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Gizmodo: Citibike finally launches in NYC
Image courtesy of Gizmodo “The program is a long time coming. Other cities, like Boston, D.C., and Chattanooga (who knew?), have been there first. But New York poses its own unique problems: There’s...
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TechCrunch: Cookening launches to connect travellers and locals over a meal
“Launching today is Cookening, a new French startup co-founded by Cédric Giorgi (previously co-editor of TechCrunch France) that combines elements of both Airbnb and Housebites. Starting with France...
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AllThingsD: TaskRabbit launches hiring platform for businesses
“TaskRabbit CRO Anne Raimondi said that 30 percent of TaskRabbit revenue already comes from small businesses, and many of them are trying to use the platform to do much more than posting simple...
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Atlantic Cities: iGo CarShare bought by Enterprise
“Avis competitor Enterprise announced yesterday that it was acquiring IGO, the Chicago nonprofit that pioneered the concept there more than a decade ago. As we’ve previously written, nonprofits have...
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Collaborative Consumption Directory – Visualized
We launched the new Collaborative Consumption Directory of Examples more than two months ago now and have received over 150 new submissions from the community, spotting new ideas from around the world....
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VentureBeat: Lyft expands ridesharing service to Boston
Image courtesy of Shutterstock “Ride-sharing startup Lyft and its pink-mustachioed cars are making their East Coast debut. Today Lyft announced that it is entering Boston. The company closed a $60...
View ArticleTechCrunch: P2P home chef platform Housebites shuts service, shifts model
“In an email to TechCrunch, Housebites CEO and co-founder Simon Prockter confirmed that its take-out business is indeed no more: “Is Housebites dead-pooled? Yes,” he says. “Is Housebites gone? No. We...
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