People-Powered Markets — 60 Resources
There is a growing movement towards peer-to-peer value exchange and production, prompted by a variety of things, like economic conditions, shifting cultural values, exploration into collective intelligence, and further enabled by social technologies.
I've been tracking the online marketplaces that have been cropping up for sharing, swapping, gifting and renting, as well as sites that give people different kinds of opportunity to share skills and knowledge, innovate, and work collaboratively both on and offline. Below are a few sites I've come across, please add any I've missed.
Below the line: Sharing Cars, Rides, Bikes, Space, Land; Gifting, P2P Rentals; Swap Trading, Goods and Money Sharing/Borrowing/Lending; Co-Working, Co-Production, Distributed Work, Skill Sharing, Barter Networks, Idea/Innovation Marketplace.
Car Sharing
– Zimride
– NuRide
– liftshare
– GoLoco
– yRides
Bike Sharing
– BIXI
– B-cycle
– Smartbike
– OYBike
Gifting
Space Sharing
– Place2Stay
– The Hospitality Club
– GlobalFreeloaders
– CouchSurfing
Peer to Peer Rental
Room/Space Rentals
– Airbnb
Swap Trading
– Swap.com
– U-Exchange
Land Sharing
– Landshare
– SharedEarth
Resource sharing/borrowing/lending
– NeighborGoods
– ecomodo
– Share Some Sugar
– thingloop
Clothing Swap
– The Clothing Exchange
– Swap for Good
– thredUP
People-Powered Marketplaces for Work / Co-Production / Innovation / Value Creation
Coworking
– The Hub
– Hub Culture
– General Assembly
– coworking/registry
Co-production
– TechShop
– Hackerspaces
– betahaus
Work Cooperative / Distributed Work
Resource Networks / Skill Sharing
– superfluid
– Assetmap
– skilio
Barter Networks
– ITEX
– Bartercard
– OurGoods
– Barter Brokers
– Tradebank
– Nubarter
Idea/Innovation Marketplace
– One Billion Minds
– hypios
– Quirky
– InnoCentive
– Open IDEO
– simpl
