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New yours2share website

After many months hard work, we’ve now launched the new yours2share website.  Please have a look!

Many thanks to Ruth Cheesley of Virya Technologies for her help with this Joomla based system.

The new yours2share has a forum and directory dedicated to everything related to private syndicates and all things sharing.  Over the next few weeks I [...]

Sharing fine art

Rich Pepper

If you like fine art, buy a few pieces now and then, or would like to, you are probably delighted to find people who like the same stuff as you. Personally I like figurative and abstract art that evokes an emotional response: landscapes just don’t do it for me, neither does still life. [...]

Facebook - sharing websites

I’m developing a list of all the websites related to sharing I know about on yours2share’s Facebook page.   As you’ll see sharing and collaboration take many forms including:

private syndicates
peer to peer rental
rental
swapping
getting rid of stuff that is no longer wanted
peer to peer lending

This is a work in progress. If you know of a [...]

The Mesh by Lisa Gansky

The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing is an interesting book, Lisa Gansky obviously knows a great deal about the many threads that are coming together to create what she calls the Mesh.  If you are looking for ideas about where business is going in the future, this is well worth reading.  There [...]

Raft adventurers arrive in Caribbean

I loved this piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph about four men who have just sailed across the Atlantic on a raft called Antiki. The four ranged in age from 56 to 85.  It has several lovely aspects, but the bit that pleased me the most was

Mr Smith advertised five years ago for “OAPs” to [...]

Landshare partners Shared Earth

Last week Landshare announced that it is partnering with its US counterpart Shared Earth. The American site will use Landshare’s technology platform, but keep its name unchanged.  This moves Landshare into its third country, there is already a Landshare Australia.

I’m pleased to see the landsharing movement growing rapidly.  yours2share also helps people share land for growing fruit [...]

What's mine is yours

I’ve just finished reading “What’s Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live” by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers. It’s thought-provoking and highly readable. Many of its peers are the former, but rarely the latter, and for this reason I’ll admit that I was putting off reading it, even though it’s [...]

How to share the big stuff

I’ve just added a post to Shareable.net’s excellent website about every aspect of sharing.  It is an introductory piece explaining the basics issues to be discussed when you are creating a new private syndicate, called How to share the big stuff.

Timeshare and fractional ownership

I often comment on articles about fractional ownership and timeshare: they aren’t the easiest conscepts to understand and their are many misconceptions.  However this recent article on ehow is probably the most misleading and garbled I’ve seen in a long time.  Unfortunately there is obviously a limit on the number of characters in a comment, [...]