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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Lees in het Nederlands. Today, the Amsterdam City Council gave final approval to a new policy that embraces home sharing and makes Amsterdam a pioneer in the global sharing economy. 
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In the world of collaborative consumption, what's mine is yours and what's yours is mine - for a fee. Pioneering services like CouchSurfing and Airbnb have proliferated into shared cars, bikes, dog sitters, tour guides and even yachts. Those fees add up and the size of just the peer-to-peer lodging market is estimated at $26 billion, luring companies who once focused on adventurous youths to set their sights on even more lucrative markets such as business travelers.
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What began as a new age-ish approach to vacation rentals has now become a trend that is infiltrating the business travel industry. The shared economy, also known as collaborative consumption, makes use of idle rooms, cars, office space, tools, and other items, and has grown significantly since the dawn of Internet-fueled communication and more trusted e-commerce.
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Researchers say that African-Americans who rent out comparable apartments in similar neighborhoods charge less for their listings than white hosts do.
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In The Wall Street Journal, Andy Kessler talks with Airbnb cofounder Brian Chesky about how an idea to rent space on air mattresses turned into a Web business that has hotel chains fuming and politicians suspicious.
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Ole Ruch’s on the right. via flickr.com Airbnb is one of my favorite startups out of the Silicon Valley because I think it’s one of the leaders in collaborative consumption and is disrupting the foundations of many economies across the world.
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I interviewed Brian Chesky, the co-founder of Airbnb, in July about the "sharing economy." While I was researching Chesky's company, I got a call from an entrepreneur, Tracy DiNunzio. She had heard that I was writing about Chesky and wanted to tell me about her startup because it was related to Airbnb, the site on which anyone can rent a spare bedroom to anyone else around the world and pick up a little cash.
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Quite recently I’ve had the chance to participate to Pisa’s Internet Festival, one of the biggest Italian event about the Internet (as per the name). I was the curator of an entire conference afternoon that was dedicated to the theme of the sharing economy (or the collaborative economy as I very much more like to call it lately).
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Like the Man who rents it, this apartment also Does Not Exist, at least according to house sharing service, Airbnb. The company insists that its users are just regular folks like you and me, renting their primary residence out while they’re on vacation, or in some cases squeezing a few bucks out of a temporarily empty summer home. People who rent or own property solely to use as Airbnb “hotels” do not exist. And yet, I’m talking to the Man Who Does Not Exist, in the living room of one of his rentals.
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The sharing economy is just getting started and will change the world, Airbnb founder Brian Chesky told Sarah Lacy at PandoMonthly in San Francisco tonight.
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Businesses like Airbnb, 9flats and Windu are putting a dent in the traditional hotel and bed and breakfast market. But as the popularity of these sites and their services continues to grow, the burgeoning industry is starting to rub regulators and locals the wrong way. In fact, regulations are in various stages of development in New York, Berlin and Amsterdam.
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Just a few days after we pondered whether the clock was ticking on the sharing economy, news has emerged that European Airbnb competitor 9flats is closing down its Berlin operations. The news follows Berlin’s move toban short-term vacation rentals in the German capital.
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“The new policy is also an excellent example of how policymakers can create innovative policies that embrace the sharing economy and make cities better places to live, work and visit,” he wrote in a statement.
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Editor's Note: This is first in a series of data dives into Airbnb's listings in New York City. We believe Airbnb vs NYC is the defining fight of the shari (RT @hkanji: Airbnb versus New York City is one of the defining fights of the sharing economy.
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When I first began listing my one-bedroom adobe house in Marfa, Texas, on Airbnb, the service seemed like a godsend.
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A new wave of technology companies claims to be expanding the possibilities of sharing and collaboration, and is clashing with established industries such as hospitality and transit. These companies make up what is being called the “sharing economy”: they provide web sites and applications through which individual residents or drivers can offer to “share” their apartment or car with a guest, for a price.
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Airenvy is a new way to solve tasks associated with posting your property, property managers for Airbnb clients, cleaning, booking & communication and price optimization. (Another example of sharing economy @villaumbrosia: This is genius!
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Airbnb's success is an example of how to go beyond serving a customer base by finding an economy to serve through a sharing economy concept.
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How some consumers are using the collaborative web to make ends meet.
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AirBnb, the pioneering web company that allows people to rent out their homes to travellers, has just completed work on its new headquarters in San Francisco. The office space, which fills a century-old warehouse, takes inspiration from listings posted on the site, featuring replicas of apartments from Milan to Bali
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, the proverbial saying goes.
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Like many other homeowners across the Coachella Valley, Henry is trying her amateur hand at property management through the help of websites such as Airbnb. Henry, a 47-year-old lifeguard and swim teacher at a YMCA in Redlands, says she’s turned her spare rooms into a lucrative side business.
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sustainable business news - The sharing economy: is Airbnb's legal trouble a sign of things to come?
latest sustainable business news - The sharing economy: is Airbnb's legal trouble a sign of things to come? (Challenges: The sharing economy: Airbnb's legal trouble a sign of things to come for resource-efficient businesses?
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The Airbnb guys are not dumb, they are well aware of the fault-lines in their model, they know the problems inherent in the accommodation industry, they know that at some point, someone will be beaten or molested or murdered, they know that a host will return home to the horrifying sight of a guest suicide, they know exactly what the media reaction will be, they know exactly what will happen to the notional value of their company, they know that one big compensation order will completely destroy the tenuous math upon which their company is based.
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AirBnb is one of the most prominent examples of the shared-economy model referred to earlier. In this model people rent beds, cars, boats and even share meals with each other, all facilitated by the Internet and social networks