# 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