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Cool graphic featured in Fast Company that highlights the market leaders for helping consumers make the most of things they have to get the hings they want..collaborative consumption!
Swap.com featured for all of your used media…and soon for all of the other goods and services!
Very cool graphic.  Thanks FastCompany.

We have all swapped things in our lives. For me swapping started in the lunch room in first grade. As I grew older, I continued to swap, trading cards, marbles, and sports equipment. Today, I trade tickets and toys for my kids. Most of these swaps have come through friends and family [...]

The Boston Globe has posted a feature article about Swap.com’s National Swap Day… a celebration of this age old way of getting things you want by exchanging things you have.  We kicked off National Swap Day here in our hometown of Boston last week by hosting a swap event in Somerville that was attended by [...]

The last thirty years has enabled phenomenal movements and shifts in technology. The rate of change has surely advanced with the Internet. The advancements in mobile technologies has added further acceleration.
It is a dream to me to have a device in my pocket that has allowed me to integrate what was [...]

It is so interesting to look at the wide range of quality that exists with mobile apps.
It resembles the early days of web pages when most people thought about their page as another brochure or piece of collateral.  Some took advantage of the new form factor, browsing, graphics and publish on demand capabilities.  This was [...]

The ink is not even dry on this cartoon by Tom Fishburne and it is already a classic.
It used to be about the “eyeballs.”
Then it was all about “free,” everything had to be free.
Now as Tom illustrates, it is all about “friends, fans & followers.”
Common wisdom would tell us that if you have alot of [...]

Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers  released their book, “What’s Mine Is Yours” today.  This book is a well research manifesto on a very important economic trend…collaborative consumption.
Today Rachel and Roo got the opportunity for a guest post in the Huffington Post to introduce their book and five companies that are “hot” in the collaborative consumption [...]

Last month I posted that Swaptree had acquired Swap.com.   This is a big deal for a young company operating in a developing category.  Our goal is to lead this category.  What better name and domain for the company other than the category name itself.  Today we made the switch of the domain and we updated [...]

I realize that taking a vacation is a time to “recreate” and “relax.”  Spend time with family and friends.  Slow down to reflect and recharge.  I know all of this.  I practice this.
Some of the ways that I accent this is listening to some good music.  Actually reading the paper or a book…not just links [...]