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Tag: Car sharing

Crowd-sourcing your basement: peer to peer renting

May 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science
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Most of us have an unusual assembly of tools, knick knacks, and appliances lying fallow in our basements in many cases used just often enough to prevent us from selling them on E-Bay but not enough to justify the hefty purchase price we paid. Fortunately the Internet is now finding new users for these items through peer to peer renting….

Clive Thompson on Peer-to-Peer Renting | Wired Magazine | Wired.com.

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15 companies that will change the world – Zipcar

August 24, 2007 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science
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15 companies that will change the world – Zipcar (4) – Business 2.0.

I seriously considered not buying a new car this time around and just using this service. If I was closer to a city or worked from home it would be perfect. You can have a NICE car for 8$/hr plus 40$/yr with all gas, insurance, maint. 40% of users sell their cars.

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