[Discussion] Collaborative Consumption

[Matt Purvis]

I've never used them but there's at least a couple of NZ car pooling sites
already:

http://www.letscarpool.govt.nz/

http://www.jayride.co.nz/

The first is run by the Greater Wellington Regional Council.


On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Brian Murphy <brian at objective.co.nz> wrote:

>  I guess the NZ guy recognized a good thing.
>
> It would seem to me that local is one of the ways to make stuff like this
> work, so there being a NZ site is important.
>
> Car pooling and ride sharing could be a killer app for this, if it can
> overcome some hurdles, ease of use, trust and reliability.
>
>
>
>
> On 2/03/2011 1:36 a.m., Ed wrote:
>
> So some folks are running CC.*com* and some guy has CC.*co.nz* and wants
> to make a new site? Doesn't that run contrary to the concept of
> collaborative consumption by duplicating efforts for the sake of ownership?
> Am I correct in assuming that .co.nz dude has no connection to the .com
> folks?
>
> Ed
>
>
>
>
> On 01/03/11 20:21, Brian Murphy wrote:
>
> Check out http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/ it is worth watching
> the Rachel Botsman TED talk.
>
> As I said I encountered someone who has the domain collaborativeconsumption.co.nz he thinks that we should be linked off
> that page as collaboration is what we are doing in essence.
>
> He also needs a home for that domain, and perhaps we could collaborate
> with him there. 8-)
>
> I am interested in any thoughts you have about this.
>
> Brian
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