Wednesday, September 08, 2010

The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

With the rise of products like Zip Cars and local sharing platforms such as NeighborGoods and Share Some Sugar, there has emerged the concept of Collaborative Consumption. While renting cars and sharing items is not a new concept, there is a school of thought that looks at this trend as a paradigm shift in market behavior. The idea that these concepts are "reinvented through social technologies and peer communities" is something very intertesting.

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