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# Internet resources
Here is a list of internet resources focusing on sharing or moneyless life:
## Software
(All of the following tools are different from cosmopool regarding user empowerment, privacy or community structure.)
* [actsofsharing.com](http://actsofsharing.com/) easily share your stuff and borrow from friends (community oriented; communities must pay money)
* [darudar](http://darudar.org/) gift giving website popular in Russia
* [freecycle](http://www.freecycle.org/) simple mailing list (one per city) to announce gifts and wishes
* [freegle](http://ilovefreegle.org/) network of local groups to give stuff away, user base in mainly UK
* [sharedstuff.org](http://sharedstuff.org/) sharing platform (give + wish) emphasizing privacy
* [streetbank.com](http://www.streetbank.com/) neighborhood sharing platform, user base mainly in UK
* [onnepank.ee](http://onnepank.ee/) neighborhood sharing platform, user base mainly in Estonia
* [RetroShare](http://onnepank.ee/) Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform
* [Vivir Bien](http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org/) Mapping resources for a solidarity economy
* [WhyOwnIt](http://de.whyownit.com/) A smartphone app for lending, German language only
* [usetogether.com](http://www.usetogether.com/) "Safe & simple peer to peer sharing", requires Facebook account
* [neighborhoodfruit](http://neighborhoodfruit.com/) iPhone app for sharing edibles with neighbors
* [neighborgoods](http://www.neighborgoods.net/) Save money and resources by sharing stuff with your friends
* [ourgoods](https://ourgoods.org/) a barter network for the creative community
During the last years there were also others, which went offline, e.g.:
* NutziGems and whopools.net Conceptualized around 2003 and coded in PHP
* borrowme.com “Borrow, lend or rent anything with those you trust.”
* happy-lending.net active 2012, oriented towards pupils
* giftflow.org until July 2013, see review
Other attempts:
* people around [keimform.de](http://keimform.de/) had ideas (1, 2) for a system to share information on what you are searching
## Theory and other resources
* [lifewithoutmoney.info (FAQ)](http://www.lifewithoutmoney.info/faq)
* wikipedia on [gift economy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_Economy)
* Book: David Graeber: Debt the first 5000 years
* [altruists.org](http://www.altruists.org/) — Re-Establishing Altruism As A Viable Social Norm
* [Anders leben wiki](http://www.autoorganisation.org/mediawiki/index.php/Anders_Leben) (german) — Collection of various practical ways to live without money
* [demonetize.it](http://demonetize.it/) — Scientific and public discourse on moneylessness
* [freeebay.net](http://web.archive.org/web/20120210214832/http://www.freeebay.net/site/) — Collection of various texts on internet and gift economy (mirror; original site was hijacked by spambots)
* [open source ecology](http://opensourceecology.org/)
* [gegenseitig.de](http://gegenseitig.blogsport.de/) (german) — Projektwerkstatt auf Gegenseitigkeit
* [sharewiki.org](http://sharewiki.org/) — a wiki about sharing
* [p2pfoundation.net](http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Resources?title=Category:Resources) — peer-to-peer tools and communities
* [ouishare.net](http://www.ouishare.net/) — "Connecting the collaborative economy", shows trends