http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:00:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/indie-music-social-media-week.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:40:18 +0000 Chris Kaskie, the president of Pitchfork, speaks about how in an age of growing internet "noise" he's attempting to provide a reliable source of information.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/springwise-peer-to-peer-marketplace-for-bike-rental.html Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:30:03 +0000 Splinster is a peer to peer bike rental service that allows people to lease out their vehicles for some extra cash.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/fred-wilson-next-big-plays-are-cloud-p2p-marketplaces-and-enterprise-headlines.html Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:05:39 +0000 "The internet investing market is transitioning. Social was the driving force for the past three or four years... Mobile has also been a hot theme..."]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/bitcoin-peer-to-peer-virtual-currency.html Fri, 20 May 2011 09:06:35 +0000 Launch examines Bitcoin in an article that discusses the controversial P2P electronic currency, outlining what they've learned after researching it, and making some predictions for the future.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/skype-and-the-granny-cloud-to-improve-teaching-in-india.html Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:17:18 +0000 A wish for fairytale story telling has snowballed into a Skype supported platform for volunteers to buttress teaching methods in India.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/amazon-to-allow-sharing-of-kindle-content.html Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:57:57 +0000 Later this year, Kindle e-books will be able to be loaned to friends using the reader or the Kindle app. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/the-war-against-file-sharing-the-pirate-bay-trial.html Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:00:42 +0000 Today the largest and most important court case in file-sharing history starts in Stockholm, Sweden. The trial against The Pirate Bay is expected to be followed by countless others around the world. TorrentFreak explains: Almost three years have passed since The Pirate Bay’s servers were seized by the Swedish police. In the years since the raid a lot has changed. For one, The Pirate Bay grew to become the largest BitTorrent tracker on the Internet and one of the most prominent sites in the world (as of right now the site is ranked 102nd largest with 25 million unique users).Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/the-p2p-alternative-social-economy.html Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:47:48 +0000 The Wall Street Journal reports that a peer to peer social currency based economy may be playing a large role in our future. Stan Stalnaker, founder of the Hub Culture social network says “I don’t think anybody has any idea of how big a shift is coming in terms of our our view and perception of finance and money.” Clever social entrepreneurs are already bypassing the traditional banking world with micro lending services such as Kiva.org, and now other groups are creating their own units of exchange. Hub culture has its own digital currency called Ven that its worldwide membersRead more...]]>