I’ve recently being doing some research into sites that make it easy for people to share stuff.
The things to be shared could be news items or pictures of something happening right where you stand.
But equally important are those occasions for sharing items that are useful for everyday life – tools for gardening etc. which might be too expensive to go out and buy, but being able to borrow from a neighbour would make sense.
The ten sharing services I’ve outlined on this spreadsheet approach the question in different ways so I’ve attempted to identify those differences with a basic description and outline of the Unique Selling Proposition.
If you use any of these services– or know of any better ones – I’d be interested to hear about it. What do you value about the service? What would you like to see more of? Please feel free to add information into the spreadsheet or let me know via the comments below.
My search for sites looking at connecting local people like this is continuing, in part, as work I’m involved in with the site www.n0tice.com (more on that here). If you’ve previously signed up for this, you’ll have n0ticed (sic!) that it’s out of view at the moment.
Don’t worry it’s not for long, there’s plenty of work going on behind the scenes and soon there’ll be a beta version to use. I’ll keep you updated on progress.
Picture on this page is by Britta Bohlinger and viewable on Flickr here.
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