The Rise of the Sharing Economy Collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer marketplaces, the sharing economy — it's been called a few names by now, but no one is denying that the idea of accessing rather than owning is controversial — and it's taking the Internet by storm. Peer-to-peer marketplaces, of which Airbnb is the beloved poster child, have been popping up for the past few years, but 2011 was an explosive year for the sector. Whether you wanted to borrow or rent someone's apartment, bike, car, parking spot or random household good, you could find a marketplace to do it. This is only the beginning, though; 2012 looks to be a promising year for those involved with the sharing economy. Collaborative consumption services are getting a lot of attention, yes, but I couldn't help but notice that only a small percentage of my contacts — even my super techie friends — have tried any of them. It's All About Value Knodes and SnapGoods founder Ron J. Renting vs. While it's called the "sharing economy," not everything is free.
Troqueurs de Temps.com permet l'échange d'heures libres Un site permettant à une communauté d'internautes de troquer du temps libre ! Innovant, convivial et gratuit ! Échangez des heures libres avec troqueurs-de-temps.com Communiqué du site Troqueurs-de-site. janvier 2012 Il s'agit d'un concept original de troc de temps : www.troqueurs-de-temps.com Ce nouveau site Internet permet la mise en relation de personnes qui n'arrivent pas à finir un projet par manque de compétences ou d'argent. Le concept : “Du temps ? Grâce à Troqueurs de temps.com, les personnes peuvent échanger des heures entres elles, c'est convivial, simple, rapide et gratuit. L'objectif de ce site se révèle dans une démarche participative et solidaire entre les internautes qui peuvent échanger du temps, des heures entre eux. Le site est clair, dynamique, attractif. Pour un échange en toute zénitude sur Troqueurs-de-temps.com, une fonctionnalité permet aux troqueurs de s'évaluer entres eux. Une notation visible sur chaque fiche des troqueurs.
CommentReparer.com - Apprenez à tout réparer L'émergence de la Consommation collaborative - Economie Get pretty much anything done by awesome people Usages, mésusages C’est en lisant Paul Ariès (Wikipédia), rédacteur en chef du Sarkophage – notamment La simplicité volontaire contre le mythe de l’abondance -, que j’ai mieux compris les limites qui me chiffonnaient dans la consommation collaborative. Celle-ci nous est souvent présentée sous les atours du partage et du don, alors qu’elle n’en est pas toujours. Le covoiturage et l’autopartage ne sont pas inspirés par une vision altruiste, comme on l’entend trop souvent. Le premier moteur du covoiturage et de l’autopartage n’est pas le partage, mais l’économie. Ce n’est pas sauver la planète qui motive les covoitureurs et les autopartageurs, mais amoindrir l’impact de la crise sur leurs finances personnelles, comme le soulignait déjà l’étude 2010 de l’Institut d’aménagement et d’urbanisme d’Ile-de-France (.pdf). La consommation collaborative… c’est encore de la consommation Image : « la consommation te consume », une image du collectif décroissant Deshazkundea. De l’usage au mésusage Hubert Guillaud
Jeff Jarvis : « Nous pouvons voir les prémisses d’une nouvelle économie basée sur le partage » Méconnu en France il y a encore quelques mois, Jeff Jarvis s’est fait remarqué en mai dernier, lors de la grande messe l’e-G8. Face à un parterre d’entrepreneurs du web encravatés, il interpellait alors Nicolas Sarkozy pour lui demander de prêter une forme de serment d’Hippocrate : « ne pas blesser internet ». Éditorialiste, blogueur sur BuzzMachine.com et directeur du Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism à l’université de New York, Jeff Jarvis fait parti des gourous du web outre-atlantique. Auteur d’un premier livre, La Méthode Google, il se définit lui-même comme un « optimiste d’internet ». À 57 ans, il publie en France un second ouvrage, Tout nu sur le web, paru en septembre aux États-Unis sous le titre Public Parts. La vie privée est-elle une notion dépassée ? Non, la vie privée est toujours quelques chose de très important. Vous dîtes que vous êtes « public par défaut ». J’ai essayé de définir la vie privée, mais je n’ai pas réussi.
« Ce qui est à moi est à toi » Publié le mardi 04 octobre 2011 à 10H17 - Vu 445 fois Antonin Léonard se définit comme « entrepreneur, blogueur, innovateur ». Il anime le site consocollaborative.com qui fait référence en France. D’où vient le concept de « consommation collaborative » ? « C’est Rachel Botsman, dans son livre (paru en 2010) « What’s mine is yours » (« Ce qui est à moi est à toi »), qui a popularisé cette notion. Est-ce une économie du bon plan, une économie solidaire, parallèle ? On entend d’ici les professionnels des secteurs où la consommation collaborative va se développer dénoncer une économie au noir et une concurrence déloyale… « Pour pas mal de secteurs, l’économie entre particuliers ne vient pas nécessairement faire concurrence aux acteurs traditionnels. Quels sont les domaines d’application qui vont apparaître demain ? L'union l'Ardennais
“Towards a Cooperative, Small scale, Local, P2P Production Future” – back from the OuiShare Summit in Paris « Meedabyte (Italian translation of the post follows here – La traduzione in italiano è disponibile qui) I’m fresh back from the first OuiShare Summit in Paris – that has been held in the wonderful coworking space “La Mutinerie” - where I had the amazing opportunity to gave a talk entitled “Towards a cooperative, small scale, local, p2p production Future” in which I really tried to connect the dots over a bunch of topics, amazing authors and also writings that I’ve done on my own, especially the latest three on the blog. OuiShare initiative was born in Paris during 2010 mostly thanks to the energy and sociablity of Antonin Leonard following the global wave of interest around two seminal books that have been published those days: Rachel Botsman’s and Roo Rogers’ “What’s mine is yours” and Lisa Gansky’s “The Mesh”. The paradigm of cooperation is, indeed, one – probably the only one – credible alternative that our global society should tackle in pursuit of a future of some kind. Like this: Like Loading...
Hack the Planet It seemed obvious that someone was coordinating the national crackdown on occupations, but I always figured it was the FBI or the Department of Homeland Security. The revelation of the truth – that a non-governmental organization called the Police Executive Research Forum has been hosting calls between mayors and providing advice based on anti-protest tactics from the last twenty years – is even more disturbing. PERF issued a hasty and unconvincing denial, but it was too late. A group of anonymous hackers aligned with the occupations were already on the attack, shutting down the Forum’s site with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack and publishing the Chief Executive’s personal information online. It’s the vengeance of the internet, and by now you have to agree with the anons: they should have expected it. All of which begs the question: what the hell took so long? After my father split when I was three, my mother worked as a waitress to support us. "This is our world now.
The nature and potential of the collaborative economy The collaborative economy is expanding, developing, and gaining more traction, and has surpassed the threshold of simply a fad or passing trend. More companies are emerging which are based on the principles of sharing, for both experiences or resources. Coworking and its gradual adaption into widely understood work practices is just one example. OuiShare is an online platform that aims to host conversations about this 'new' economy, and promote the values this economy underpins. OuiShare started as a blog about collaborative consumption in 2010. Two years on, the facebook group has near 1000 fans from all over Europe, and has expanded into a collaborative platform which promotes this economy, and, most importantly, the values behind it. As more individuals and businesses alike turn to the sharing economy as an effective and fulfilling alternative, more people develop opinions about the phenomenon and are inclined to try to define it. What is new about the collaborative economy?
Study Reveals Big Opportunities in the Sharing Economy Latitude and Shareable Magazine recently released the findings of The New Sharing Economy study, which uncovered new opportunities for entrepreneurs, investors, and established companies in the emerging sharing economy. Top Opportunity Areas for New Sharing Services. The New Sharing Economy study surveyed 537 participants for their current engagement and future interest in sharing across industry categories. Infographic excerpted from The New Sharing Economy study report. Time is money. What All Businesses Can Learn from The New Sharing Economy. Image credit: D'Arcy Norman Build brand loyalty and generate more actionable marketing data through sharing-based offerings. A Few Forward-Looking Sharing Business Concepts, Submitted by Participants. Software. Study Lead: Kim Gaskins [email]. This one of four posts on our study:
What the Sharing Economy Needs Is a Little Less Democracy | Wired Business Digital utopianism runs through Silicon Valley like water down the Mississippi. But the rhetoric reaches even higher levels than usual when the tech cognoscenti start talking about “the sharing economy.” An app that puts strangers in your apartment when you’re not in it or in your car when you’re not driving is a seductive proposition. For engineers and designers weaned on the idea of efficiency as the key to better living, sharing just makes so much sense. The most breathtaking example of that idealism in action to date may be Uber’s latest financing round — a $258 million shot-in-the-arm led by Google Ventures. Despite all the talk — and the cash behind it — the floodgates have not opened where it matters. The success of the sharing economy depends on the degree to which a culture of using versus owning triumphs over the deeply ingrained consumerist notion of our stuff as an extension of ourselves. In a sense, it’s no longer just “yours.” Maybe the problem is too much democracy.