Facebook is using insights from neuroscience and psychology to try to make the site feel like a safer, more benevolent place for adults and kids alike. Read more »
Building an active user community is now on the agenda of many companies and nonprofits. But what does it take to build a sustainable community? Read more »
Adam Werbach, environmentalist and sustainability innovator, launches sharing service yerdle today, Black Friday, the biggest shopping of the year, to highlight the advantages of sharing over shopping. Read more »
Social Media Week kicks off on September 24, with over 600 events in 14 cities around the world—90% of which are free to attend. Here are ten events related to the sharing economy that may be of interest to Shareable readers. Read more »
Diaspora's founders are handing the project over to the open source community to focus on a new startup. It's an open question whether this move will reignite interest in the project, or mark Diaspora as one of the most high-profile crowdfunding failures to date. Read more »
It may not actually be round five, but it's been a while since I updated Shareable readers on my prosecution for disorderly conduct in connection with Occupy Wall Street that has turned into a surprisingly important test case for online privacy. Read more »
It's not a stretch to say the tweet is a new poetic form, I would go so far as to say it's the dominant form of contemporary poetry. A writer can go from unknown to internet-famous with a handful of precisely chosen words. Read more »
Social media and the Internet are amazing assets. But their designs have to be rooted in the place of our greatest leverage -- inner transformation. If we are to have sustainable revolutions that last for generations, we will need to design our technologies with this element in mind. Read more »
Tech companies at SxSWi discover what those who embrace the sharing economy have always known: humans seek happiness and want to share it with others. Read more »
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