Peer-to-peer renting Peer-to-peer renting refers to the process of an individual renting an owned good, service, or property to another individual. It is also referred to as Person-to-Person rental, P2P renting, Collaborative Consumption, the sharing economy and Product Service System. The term is mainly used to describe online enabled rental transactions between individuals. Individuals have been renting from each other for decades, particularly in the real estate domain, however, with the Internet acting as a facilitator, there is a growing trend of websites that offer to facilitate peer-to-peer rental transactions. The term Peer-to-peer renting is inspired from the computer networking term Peer-to-peer, which allows cumulative network bandwidth through direct and multiple connectivity between users. Peer-to-peer renting services and Platforms are usually online marketplaces connecting individuals and enabling rental transactions between them. See also[edit] Notes and references[edit] External links[edit]
Ultimate CES 2011 Tablet Roundup: 25 Tablets Compared To say there were a few tablets at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show would be a vast understatement. With more than 80 tablet launches in total, there were at least as many Android tablets and devices on the show floor as almost anything else, including 3D devices, which popped up almost everywhere else. There was even a 3D tablet, as a matter of fact. We’ve boiled down the overflowing list of tablets down to a manageable 25. Motorola Xoom The Motorola Xoom is our favorite tablet of the show. BlackBerry PlayBook The BlackBerry PlayBook entered CES an underdog, but left as one of the hot items of the show. Toshiba Android Tablet This still-unnamed Toshiba tablet is running Android 2.2, but should be upgradeable to 3.0 (Honeycomb) before the tablet hits retail sometime this spring. Dell Streak 7 and 10 Dell’s 5-inch Streak failed to capture much interest when it hit AT&T last year, but the PC manufacturer isn’t done yet. Dell Inspiron Duo Samsung 7 Series Sliding Windows PC
Peer-to-peer lending Peer-to-peer lending (also known as person-to-person lending, peer-to-peer investing, and social lending; abbreviated frequently as P2P lending) is the practice of lending money to unrelated individuals, or "peers", without going through a traditional financial intermediary such as a bank or other traditional financial institution. This lending takes place online on peer-to-peer lending companies' websites using various different lending platforms and credit checking tools. Overview[edit] The interest rates are set by lenders who compete for the lowest rate on the reverse auction model, or are fixed by the intermediary company on the basis of an analysis of the borrower's credit.[1] Borrowers assessed as having a higher risk of default are assigned higher rates. Lenders mitigate the individual risk that borrowers will not pay back the money they received by choosing which borrowers to lend to, and mitigate total risk by diversifying their investments among different borrowers.
iPad 2 with High Res Screen, SD Card Slot and iPhone 5 with A5 Processor? Take a peek at some high probability rumors coming your way via Engadget, a couple about the iPad 2, iPhone 5, and a next generation Apple TV. First there's a few bits having to do with that super mysterious iPad 2 dummy model that was sighted at a booth at CES 2011 - non working, not confirmed as anything legit, but the details here don't seem that far fetched: a "super high resolution" screen similar to that of iPhone 4's Retina Display (hotness.) Then there's the notion of an SD card slot - this one I and we are a little bit less confident in, unless Apple plans on marketing the iPad to be more like the easy-open G3 towers of yore, openable and customizable - almost like a computer that was meant to be modified! The final couple of details on the iPad two are thus - a screen size that's exactly the same as the current model (likely,) and both front and rear cameras (also likely.) That all sound alright to you?
Collaborative Consumption Population-wide reduction in salt consumption recommended The American Heart Association Thursday issued a call to action for the public, health professionals, the food industry and the government to intensify efforts to reduce the amount of sodium (salt) Americans consume daily. In an advisory, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association , the association sets out the science behind the American Heart Association’s recommendation for the general population, which is to consume no more than 1500 milligrams (mg) of sodium a day because of the harmful effects of sodium – elevated blood pressure and increased risk of stroke, heart attacks and kidney disease. Elevated blood pressure (hypertension) is a major public health problem – approximately 90 percent of all Americans will develop hypertension over their lifetime. Sodium consumption is currently more than two times higher than the recommended upper limit of 1,500 mg daily, with 77 percent of that consumption coming from packaged, processed and restaurant foods.
Defining P2P as the relational dynamic of distributed networks 2.1.A. Defining P2P as the relational dynamic of distributed networks Alexander Galloway in his book Protocol makes an important and clear distinction between centralized networks (with one central hub where everything must pass and be authorized, as in the old telephone switching systems), decentralized systems, with more than one center, but these subcenters still being authorative (such as the airport system in the U.S. centered around hubs where planes must pass through), from distributed systems, where hubs may exist, but are not obligatory (such as the internet). So: what is peer to peer? P2P processes are not structureless, but are characterized by dynamic and changing structures which adapt themselves to phase changes. P2P is a network, not a pyramidal hierarchy (though it may have elements of it); it is 'distributed', though it may have elements of hierarchy, centralization and 'decentralization'; intelligence is not located at any center, but everywhere within the system.
iPhone 5, iPad 2 to follow Motorola Xoom? iPhone 5, iPad 2 to follow Motorola Xoom? iPhone 5 and iPad 2 will ditch the home button? Motorola Xoom, the forthcoming Android tablet, has no buttons present in most of current Android devices available. Looks like Apple inc is not just planning solar-powered devices, but also products with less physical buttons. The new rumor suggests that iPhone 5 and iPad 2 (or Apple devices scheduled to hit the stores this year) will not rely on the home button, and will get access to the “return to home” function by pushing a button programmed inside the touchscreen UI. The report also added that some folks inside the Cupertino, California-based company are now testing the iPad with no home button model, most likely the iPad 2, reportedly scheduled to arrive in the USA exclusively (in just three months) next quarter. But the rumor is most likely related to Motorola Xoom, the latest device that will try to snatch iPad’s tablet domination. Around The Web: 1. Related Articles
Characteristics of P2P 3.3.C. Beyond Formalization, Institutionalization, Commodification Observation of commons-based peer production and knowledge exchange, unveils a further number of important elements, which can be added to our earlier definition and has to be added to the characteristic of holoptism just discussed in 3.4.B. In premodern societies, knowledge is ‘guarded’, it is part of what constitutes power. Guilds are based on secrets, the Church does not translate the Bible, and it guards its monopoly of interpretation. With the advent of modernity, and let’s think about Diderot’s project of the Encyclopedia as an example, knowledge is from now on regarded as a public resource which should flow freely. Again, peer to peer appears as a radical shift. If there are formal rules, they have to be accepted by the community, and they are ad hoc for particular projects. A second important aspect is de-institutionalization. Please note my semantic difficulty here.