http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:53:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/texting-car-sharing.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:28:52 +0000 Vehicle sharing program manages the whole process through SMS.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/peer-to-peer-online-exchange-for-couture.html Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:40:11 +0000 reFashioner lets members sell and swap luxury clothes, and use their store credit to buy more items.]]> 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/2011/10/gm-and-relayrides-team-up-for-car-sharing.html Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:07:15 +0000 OnStar subscribers who use the service won't have to install the usual hardware, they can use a mobile app instead.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/future-of-retail-social-currency-2.html Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:00:15 +0000 Retailers are rethinking the value of a shopper based on the history and potential of that individual’s spend and also on the influence of their social graphs.]]> 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/2010/12/connecting-peer-to-peer-trades-of-physical-goods-online.html Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:19:50 +0000 Rachel Botsman, author of 'What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption,' explores the story of Swap.com.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/wearing-1-star-yelp-reviews-proudly.html Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:22:21 +0000 In a humorous display of the interplay between the digital realms and real life, Pizzeria Delfina in San Francisco has started outfitting its staff with t-shirts bearing quotes from some of their “best” 1-Star Yelp reviews. The move is interesting for a number of reasons, but in particular because it points to a real understanding of how much these reviews mean to businesses nowadays. Social media platforms that provide peer-to-peer reviews have at least caught up with, if not surpassed, the once powerful sway held almost exclusively by the classic expert reviewer. And while this new methodology may offer aRead 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...]]>