Gift Economy Websites

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If you're a webdesigner/programmer, see starting a gift economy website.

Users note that non-English language sites are labeled as such.

Contents

Goods

To give things away, consider the simplicity of the giveaway project. For more organised systems:

Focus Websites
Items (German) http://alles-und-umsonst.de
Books http://www.bookcrossing.com
Items (classified ads) http://www.regioshare.org
Redistribution of spare items, food, plants http://freesharing.org
Eliminating waste worldwide http://freecycle.org
Consumer Goods (Canada/US) http://www.onlinerecyclers.com
Giving not discarding items (French) http://donnons.org
Cutting consumption through reuse (French) http://www.recupe.net
Linking free supply with free demand http://www.free-economy.org
Keywords for publishing your free stuff on your blog or website http://www.tagsets.org/ustagset/free
Free Economy Facebook Application http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=295996908556&ref=ts

For help with dumpster diving/skipping, try http://trashwiki.org.

Services

Focus Websites
Mixed cash/gift economy since 1999 http://favors.org
Hugs!!! http://www.freehugscampaign.org
Peer-to-peer Education (multi-language) http://wiki.tsolife.org
Linking free supply with free demand (works for services as well) http://www.free-economy.org


Transport

If you're ready to keep your back to the wind, see HitchWiki, recommended to both beginners and expert hitchhikers. Alernatively, try the below websites, which are about matching drivers to passengers.

Focus Website
Lift Sharing (Mainly Europe) http://www.hitchhikers.org
Lift Sharing (Europe) http://www.hitchhikers.org
Lift Sharing (mainly UK) http://www.mylifts.com
Lift Sharing (UK) https://www.liftshare.com
Lift Sharing (UK) http://www.freewheelers.co.uk

Hospitality

HospitalityClub was the most famous of these, but has come under criticism about its autocratic style, refusal to delete members' profiles, and some documents that turned up on wikileaks. If you just want to join one, http://www.CouchSurfing.org is probably the one.

Focus Website
International Community (Multi-language) http://www.CouchSurfing.org
Hospitality http://www.GlobalFreeloaders.com
Hospitality http://www.BeWelcome.org
Tourism (Multi-language) http://hospitalityclub.org

Information

These days, pretty much the whole internet is a gift economy. Commercial pay-per-view websites got crowded out by free alternatives.

Focus Website
Open source Music http://opsound.org
Things you're not supposed to know http://wikileaks.org
General reference http://wikipedia.org