Posts Tagged ‘shared world’

Microfinance, Aggregation, Kiva

Monday, May 5th, 2008

One of those concepts that most North Americans don’t run into everyday is that of microfinance. You can read about it at the link, but in a nutshell it’s the idea that even “poor” people need access to financial services.
One particular area where this is true is financing for the small–by North American standards–loans that [...]

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I’m Excited: Shadow Unit

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Well, this is certainly the best “online entertainment” news I’ve read in a while.

I’ll let one of the participants explain:
Shadow Unit is, more or less, the website for a serial drama in internet form. Or possibly it’s a fan site for a TV show that doesn’t exist.
Over the next couple of months, the site will [...]

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