Pinterest-style site integrates social sharing, digital identification and online shopping We’ve already seen CrowdSend tap the crowds to help consumers identify unlabelled products in online images. Improving on this concept, myStorey is a new platform that enables users to create curated digital pinboards, with photo-tagging capabilities to let friends know where they bought the items. READ MORE…
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Pinterest-style site integrates social sharing, digital identification and online shopping

We’ve already seen CrowdSend tap the crowds to help consumers identify unlabelled products in online images. Improving on this concept, myStorey is a new platform that enables users to create curated digital pinboards, with photo-tagging capabilities to let friends know where they bought the items. READ MORE…

Site helps travelers find peer-to-peer alternatives Regular Springwise readers are already well-acquainted with the peer-to-peer model through which consumers around the globe are sharing their cars, their homes, their tools and their mobile internet connections, to name just a few examples. Now focusing on travelers, Trablr aims to help users book entire trips using a peer-to-peer approach. READ MORE…
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Site helps travelers find peer-to-peer alternatives

Regular Springwise readers are already well-acquainted with the peer-to-peer model through which consumers around the globe are sharing their cars, their homes, their tools and their mobile internet connections, to name just a few examples. Now focusing on travelers, Trablr aims to help users book entire trips using a peer-to-peer approach. READ MORE…

Site helps neighbors share rarely used goods We’ve seen an increasing number of sharing platforms appear over the years, as consumers seek to lend and borrow rarely used items while earning and saving some extra cash. NeighborGoods and StuffPal are two efforts we’ve seen designed to facilitate such exchanges, and recently we came across another: Share Some Sugar. READ MORE…
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Site helps neighbors share rarely used goods

We’ve seen an increasing number of sharing platforms appear over the years, as consumers seek to lend and borrow rarely used items while earning and saving some extra cash. NeighborGoods and StuffPal are two efforts we’ve seen designed to facilitate such exchanges, and recently we came across another: Share Some Sugar. READ MORE…

App connects those in need of a bathroom with locals willing to share one Consumers have already proven willing to share their gardens, storage space, parking spots and CPU time in exchange for a little extra cash, so why not their bathrooms, too? That, indeed, is the premise behind CLOO’, a smartphone app that will soon connect those in urgent need of a restroom with urban dwellers willing to share one. READ MORE…
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App connects those in need of a bathroom with locals willing to share one

Consumers have already proven willing to share their gardens, storage space, parking spots and CPU time in exchange for a little extra cash, so why not their bathrooms, too? That, indeed, is the premise behind CLOO’, a smartphone app that will soon connect those in urgent need of a restroom with urban dwellers willing to share one. READ MORE…

Photo-sharing site protects copyright and tracks views Videos, sounds and documents have long been easy to share on the internet thanks to the likes of YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Scribd and others. Sharing pictures legally, however, hasn’t been so easy. That’s where Picuous comes in, with a site that enables users to share their pictures while protecting copyright and even tracking details about who has viewed them. READ MORE…
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Photo-sharing site protects copyright and tracks views

Videos, sounds and documents have long been easy to share on the internet thanks to the likes of YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Scribd and others. Sharing pictures legally, however, hasn’t been so easy. That’s where Picuous comes in, with a site that enables users to share their pictures while protecting copyright and even tracking details about who has viewed them. READ MORE…

DIY platform enables fractional ownership of rarely used items We’ve seen the fractional ownership model applied to luxury goods including supercars, second homes, jets and high-end motorcycles. Aiming to expand the concept’s reach, diyFractional is a site that helps people set up and manage shared ownership arrangements for any type of infrequently used good. READ MORE…
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DIY platform enables fractional ownership of rarely used items

We’ve seen the fractional ownership model applied to luxury goods including supercars, second homes, jets and high-end motorcycles. Aiming to expand the concept’s reach, diyFractional is a site that helps people set up and manage shared ownership arrangements for any type of infrequently used good. READ MORE…