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RecycleMatch is an online market to transform commercial waste into value. Their solution is to match companies that have waste materials with other companies need the materials. RecycleMatch is working to accelerate participation and innovation in commercial recycling and reuse of materials, creating a more efficient business ecosystem.

RecycleMatch’s online marketplace makes it easy for companies to reduce costs and improve environmental impact. With a few clicks, companies can use a powerful network to find better solutions than they could have on their own. Whether the company is seeking to divert materials from landfill, or whether they are seeking alternative, cost-effective and environmentally responsible materials, RecycleMatch is turning trash into treasure. The maketplace is performanced based…

Threadless is a community-centered online apparel store run by skinnyCorp of Chicago, Illinois, since 2000. Co-founders Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart started the company with $1,000 in seed money after entering an Internet t-shirt design contest.

Members of the Threadless community submit t-shirt designs online; the designs are then put to a public vote. A small percentage of submitted designs are selected for printing and sold through an online store. Creators of the winning designs receive a prize of cash and store credit.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.

Although senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends, by default Tweets are publicly accessible by all. Users can choose to follow users they wish to receive regular updates from, and be followed by any other twitter users. Because of its open nature and userbase, it is often used as a social-media marketing tool by utilizing the power of crowdsourcing and word of mouth.

The Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.

Ushahidi is a free and open source project with developers hailing from Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Malawi, Netherlands and the USA working on it. They respond very quickly to worldwide crisis & disaster situations using and sharing their platform and by crowdsourcing people worldwide to assist in the effort.

wikiHow is a collaboration to build and share the world’s largest, highest quality how-to manual. wikiHow contains over 70,000 how-to guides in 7 languages, which are written, edited and maintained by thousands of volunteers. Over 20 million unique visitors per month turn to the website at http://www.wikiHow.com to learn how to do new things. Quantcast ranks wikiHow as the 130th most popular site on the web. wikiHow freely distributes its…

Openness is built into the infrastructure of wikiHow. Volunteer editors on the wiki have produced 70,000 articles which are all licensed under a Creative Commons license. Company staff produces and freely distributes open source software to run the site and downloadable software applications to enable more people to read the content. The site itself is managed and edited in such a way that decisions are made in the open…

Zopa is an England-based company providing an online money exchange service, allowing people who have money to lend it to those who wish to borrow, instead of using savings accounts and loan applications at traditional banks. Zopa acts as the man in the middle operating the markets.

Zopa offers a marketplace for both borrowers and loaners to come together. People who wish to borrow can seek people who wish to lend, skipping time consuming processes in traditional banks. The process is sometimes referred to as peer-to-peer lending.