A social network for renting and borrowing aims to bring the concept of "sharing" back into the real world.
NeighborGoods, the SXSW Accelerator winner for Best Bootstrapped Startup, wants to revitalize neighborly sharing by offering communities a brilliantly practical incentive to interact: everyone else's unused stuff.
"We have tons of excess inventory," says Paige Craig, one of SXSW's Accelerator judges and a venture capitalist. "Why not create an environment where we can very quickly share it?"
The Craigslist-like platform allows neighborhoods and organizations to create exchange networks for the borrowing and renting of underutilized items, such as books, backpacks, or even cars. NeighborGoods has ambitious plans to scale up, and Silicon Valley's already signed on to its larger vision.
[vimeo 19846300]
At is core, NeighboorGoods feels like a more robust and polished version of Craigslist. A graphical user interface keeps track of activity (items shared, money saved), alerts members to wishlisted items,...
NeighborGoods, the SXSW Accelerator winner for Best Bootstrapped Startup, wants to revitalize neighborly sharing by offering communities a brilliantly practical incentive to interact: everyone else's unused stuff.
"We have tons of excess inventory," says Paige Craig, one of SXSW's Accelerator judges and a venture capitalist. "Why not create an environment where we can very quickly share it?"
The Craigslist-like platform allows neighborhoods and organizations to create exchange networks for the borrowing and renting of underutilized items, such as books, backpacks, or even cars. NeighborGoods has ambitious plans to scale up, and Silicon Valley's already signed on to its larger vision.
[vimeo 19846300]
At is core, NeighboorGoods feels like a more robust and polished version of Craigslist. A graphical user interface keeps track of activity (items shared, money saved), alerts members to wishlisted items,...
- 6/2/2011
- by Gregory Ferenstein
- Fast Company
You may have heard me mention Neighborgoods.net before, and I would have told you more about it sooner, but the truth is that I'm rather lazy (and a little busy). The brainchild of Twitter Star and La Derby Doll Micki Krimmel (@mickipedia), NeighborGoods is a social website that allows you to share and/or rent stuff you have and/or need. I'm reminding you again, because I just happened to find a couple of videos that run you through the thing, and I want to send you over to MyooCreate to vote. I hate to go into the details, especially when these videos are going to do it for me, but if there was ever an idea that instantly struck me as something worth getting behind, this is it. Check out the info, and if you think it's as great as I do, sign up, and head over to MyooCreate and help them out.
- 6/18/2010
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Directors Arthur Dong, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Chris Eska, Clark Gregg, Davis Guggenheim and Freida Lee Mock are among the participants in Film Independent's fourth annual Filmmaker Forum, which will be held Sept. 26-28 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles.
Producer Ted Hope will deliver this year's keynote address at the three-day event, which focusses on the latest developments in independent filmmaking.
The forum will kick off on Sept. 26 with a screening of Rian Anderson's "The Brothers Bloom," followed by a Q&A with producer Ram Bergman and other members of the creative team and a reception in the DGA atrium.
On Sept. 27 and 28, panel discussions will be held on such topics as "Finding the Financial Sweet Spot"; "What's Up Doc?"; "The Micro Budget Film as a Calling Card; New Tools for Audience Building; The Cost of Cutting Corners: Production Dos and Don'ts"; "Keeping Your Documentary on...
Producer Ted Hope will deliver this year's keynote address at the three-day event, which focusses on the latest developments in independent filmmaking.
The forum will kick off on Sept. 26 with a screening of Rian Anderson's "The Brothers Bloom," followed by a Q&A with producer Ram Bergman and other members of the creative team and a reception in the DGA atrium.
On Sept. 27 and 28, panel discussions will be held on such topics as "Finding the Financial Sweet Spot"; "What's Up Doc?"; "The Micro Budget Film as a Calling Card; New Tools for Audience Building; The Cost of Cutting Corners: Production Dos and Don'ts"; "Keeping Your Documentary on...
- 9/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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