Internet resources
Here is a list of internet resources focusing on sharing or moneyless life:
Software
(All of the following tools are different from cosmopool regarding user empowerment, privacy or community structure.)
- actsofsharing.com easily share your stuff and borrow from friends (community oriented; communities must pay money)
- darudar gift giving website popular in Russia
- freecycle simple mailing list (one per city) to announce gifts and wishes
- freegle network of local groups to give stuff away, user base in mainly UK
- sharedstuff.org sharing platform (give + wish) emphasizing privacy
- streetbank.com neighborhood sharing platform, user base mainly in UK
- onnepank.ee neighborhood sharing platform, user base mainly in Estonia
- RetroShare Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform
- Vivir Bien Mapping resources for a solidarity economy
- WhyOwnIt A smartphone app for lending, German language only
- usetogether.com "Safe & simple peer to peer sharing", requires Facebook account
- neighborhoodfruit iPhone app for sharing edibles with neighbors
- neighborgoods Save money and resources by sharing stuff with your friends
- ourgoods a barter network for the creative community
During the last years there were also others, which went offline, e.g.:
- NutziGems and whopools.net Conceptualized around 2003 and coded in PHP
- borrowme.com “Borrow, lend or rent anything with those you trust.”
- happy-lending.net active 2012, oriented towards pupils
- giftflow.org until July 2013, see review
Other attempts:
- people around keimform.de had ideas (1, 2) for a system to share information on what you are searching
Theory and other resources
- lifewithoutmoney.info (FAQ)
- wikipedia on gift economy
- Book: David Graeber: Debt – the first 5000 years
- altruists.org — Re-Establishing Altruism As A Viable Social Norm
- Anders leben wiki (german) — Collection of various practical ways to live without money
- demonetize.it — Scientific and public discourse on moneylessness
- freeebay.net — Collection of various texts on internet and gift economy (mirror; original site was hijacked by spambots)
- open source ecology
- gegenseitig.de (german) — Projektwerkstatt auf Gegenseitigkeit
- sharewiki.org — a wiki about sharing
- p2pfoundation.net — peer-to-peer tools and communities
- ouishare.net — "Connecting the collaborative economy", shows trends