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    * slipperycat.com - attempt to nail down ontology for game business - shows what a simple industry looks like from low level code up to production. - a '''stub''' at the moment
    * slipperycat.com - attempt to nail down ontology for game business - shows what a simple industry looks like from low level code up to production. - a '''stub''' at the moment
    * <s>www.subvertise.org/</s> - A fun collection of subverted [[advertising]] i.e. Defaced ads and image manipulations in the spirit of [[adbusters]]. Plenty of fun for all [[Brand]]/[[Logo]]/Graphics/ViolentRevolutionOfTheProletariat type of people
    * <s>www.subvertise.org/</s> - A fun collection of subverted [[advertising]] i.e. Defaced ads and image manipulations in the spirit of [[adbusters]]. Plenty of fun for all [[Brand]]/[[Logo]]/Graphics/ViolentRevolutionOfTheProletariat type of people
    * Superprix.com was a French price comparison service by [[w:Pronto.com]]
    * <s>www.stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/ The Surpriv blog</s> was for discussions of RFID-related surveillance and privacy issue
    * <s>www.stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/ The Surpriv blog</s> was for discussions of RFID-related surveillance and privacy issue
    * stromsparung.com/ was a German electricity price comparison service. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    * stromsparung.com/ was a German electricity price comparison service. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.

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    • 1traveler1book.org was a program to encourage travelers to bring at least 1 book to be distributed to children of school age living in various regions in Indonesia.

    4

    • 4insiders.de/ was a German books and CDs price comparison service found defunct in Spring 2017

    A

    • A-B.ie was a nationwide independent multimodal traveller router for Ireland discontinued in 2016.
    • www.airline-direct.es/ was a Spanish price comparison service for flights and cars. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.

    B

    • badcorp.org/ - had a very interesting search engine in the 00's for figuring out who owns who! This is essential to track those constantly-changing names.
    • bestreviewratings.com was a supplement review aggregator. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.bestwebbuys.com/ used to an American price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.bookbrain.co.uk/ used to be a price comparison service for books. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.bookhq.com/ used to be an American book price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.bookkoob.co.uk was a British price comparison service for books. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • thebookscore.net TheBookscore.net] was a review site or review aggregator for books. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www1.bottomdollar.com/ was an American price comparison service later acquired by PriceGrabber.com.
    • Buffalo CarShare www.buffalocarshare.org/ (.org) was a nonprofit carsharing service in the Buffalo, NY area. Found discontinued in 2017.

    C

    • www.calgarycarshare.ca Calgary Carshare (.ca) was a carsharing service in Calgary. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • carreviewsuk.co.uk was a car review site.
    • carsharehfx.ca/ CarShare HFX was a carsharing service in Halifax. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • Ciao.com was a price comparison service that was available in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian and Swedish.
    • www.cityfan.com was an Italian restaurant reviews site. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.cooceo.de/ was a German price comparison service found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.compareshopbooks.com/ was an American price comparison service for books. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • ConsumerGadget.net ConsumerGadget.net] was an ethical information SMS+XHTML-service in the 00's in Finnish. Was discontinued and won money was donated to Kulutusjuhla Ry.
    • www.cooceo.de/ was a German price comparison service found defunct in Spring of 2017.
    • CorpKnowPedia was an early 00's wiki tracking the corporate landscape with the intention of building a database to track the behaviour of corporations.
    • www.costameno.it/ was an Italian price comparison service. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017
    • crit.org used to be annotation software to 'mark up' any site on the web
    • www.critics.gr/ was a Greek multi-category review site by nett O.E. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

    D

    E

    • Ekopedia www.ekopedia.org/ (.org) - advice on living green in 7 languages MediaWiki, CC-A-SA. Contents are utilised in Appropedia.org (www.appropedia.org/Ekopedia)
    • Energy in Common www.energyincommon.org/ (.org) was a microloans for renewable energy solutions scheme. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.environmentaldirectory.net/ used to list over 13.000 organisations dealing with environmental issues in the US

    F

    • www.fleety.com.br/ was a carsharing service in Curitiba, São Paolo and Florianópolis, Brazil. Found discontinued in 2017.
    • fiiha.com was a Czech price comparison service
    • Flexcar was a carsharing service in the USA
    • FindTheBest.com was an American price comparison service that was discontinued
    • www.futureforests.com/ - A project for making products carbon neutral by planting enough trees to absorb the amount of carbon emissions caused by the production of the product. Currently mostly about music records that want a fun label to print on the cd-sleeve. It'd be nice to see a burning rock power plant have this label.

    G

    • givetake.pl/ was a Polish P2P lending site. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.goedkoopstehardware.com/ used to be a Dutch computer components price comparison service. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • GreenScan - www.adbusters.org/campaigns/opensource/greenscan/ - was an early Adbusters project to create a hand-held barcode scanner with a simple output system. Scan a product: if you get a green light, it is ok to buy. Red is bad.
    • www.grouplend.ca/ used to be a Canadian P2P lending site. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

    H

    • www.homenow.fr/ used to be a French app for Android and iOS that keept track of public transport timetables and reminds you to get home before service ceases for the night. Found discontinued in 2017.

    I

    • www.incredita.co.il was an Israeli consumer loans oriented P2P lending site. Found discontinued in the spring of 2017.
    • www.infoshop.org/octo/matrix/index.php/Main_Page The Matrix: An anti-capitalist database] was a GFDL and MediaWiki running site
    • Interra - interraproject.org interraproject.org] was a scheme to make a card to enable "purchasing from locally owned and sustainable businesses" that "donates automatically to community organizations" and even "facilitates connections" like factions or Serendipity.

    J

    K

    • www.kuluttajaluotot.com/ was a Finnish price comparison service for consumer loans

    L

    • www.ladywiki.org/ was open public space for exchange & action against (not only sexual) discrimination, public domain
    • www.lainaa-netista.com/ was a Finnish price comparison service for loans
    • Listar www.listar.com/ (.com) was a search for products by country available in English and Spanish. Found discontinued in 2017.
    • Living Platform was proposed by 142.177.X.X to be useful to emulate to set Publish:policy as it has very similar problems notably with faction and challenges of remaining troll-friendly despite intense feelings about things
    • www.locomute.co.za/ was a South African carsharing service. Found discontinued in 2017.
    • Lsb - was an epic wiki named "eg" ( suppose thatäs latin for example gratularis or so ) by the lsb:Efficient Civics Guild use [[lsb:Article name]]

    M

    • www.metaprices.com/ was an American price comparison service for books etc. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017
    • Modo Fac Central, www.modofaccentral.com/mfc/ was online social networking system lead by Kerry Santo for social entrepreneurs and all who want to Just Do It
    • www.moneygum.com/ was a British price comparison service for insurance, loans and credit cards. Found discontinued in Spring of 2017.
    • www.myphilanthropedia.org/ was a charity reviewing site where experts were invited to rate charities so you can easily choose which one to donate to. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

    N

    • netshoppers.com/ was an American price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • NexTag www.nextag.it/ and NexTag.es were price comparison service domains by Nextag, Inc. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.

    O

    • OurAnswer was a method for the people to respond to business leaders and politicians and it ran MediaWiki and worked under GFDL)
    • www.onecompare.com/ used to be a British price comparison service for mobile phones. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • One Village Foundation, www.onevillage.biz responding to the AIDS challenge in Africa by organizing unity centers as catalysts for global villages

    P

    • www.pcworld.com/shopping/ was an American price comparison service for computers etc. by w:PC World. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • planetarycitizen.open.ac.uk/ used to be a network for the Planetary Citizen
    "This project comes out of a vision for a peaceful, sustainable future for the Earth that has been developing in many places. That vision was very evident in the non-governmental side of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in August/September 2002, in many of the events that were ignored by the mass media."
    • www.pricealert.com.au/ was a car price comparison service in Australia found defunct in 2017.
    • pricebomb.co.uk/ was a British price comparison service. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • PricePanda www.pricepanda.com.ar/ and www.pricepanda.com.co/ were price comparison services in Argentina and Colombia. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • PriceSCAN.com was a site that used to keep indices on certain consumer electronics over time. Discontinued in 2011.
    • www.pricetracker.co.uk/ was a DVDs, music,games, gadgets, software and books price comparison service by Primosys. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • comparer.prixcarburant.com était une liste des comparateurs de prix des carburants en France. On l'a trouvé disparu 2017.
    • w:ProCompare www.procompare.com (.com) was a review aggregator. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

    Q

    • Qarin.com was a price comparison service intended for MENA
    • web.quicar.de/ Quicar.de was share a Volkswagen carsharing in Germany. Found discontinued in 2017.
    • www.qype.it was an italian eating & drinking, nightlife, shopping, arts & entertainment, services, Health&Beauty review aggregator. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

    R

    • Recyclopediawww.recyclopedia.info (.info) was a closely aligned wiki that used GetWiki, an ancient fork of Mediawiki. Recyclopedia is down for an unknown period. Although much of the content seems to be reappearing at the Embodiment wiki.

    S

    • www.smartshopping.co.uk/ was a British price comparison service by 1&1 Internet AG. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.shopyoo.de/ was a German price comparison service found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.socialforge.net/tiki-index.php was "a free service for everyone wishes to share knowledge and to collaborate to build projects related to:
    • slipperycat.com - attempt to nail down ontology for game business - shows what a simple industry looks like from low level code up to production. - a stub at the moment
    • www.subvertise.org/ - A fun collection of subverted advertising i.e. Defaced ads and image manipulations in the spirit of adbusters. Plenty of fun for all Brand/Logo/Graphics/ViolentRevolutionOfTheProletariat type of people
    • Superprix.com was a French price comparison service by w:Pronto.com
    • www.stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/ The Surpriv blog was for discussions of RFID-related surveillance and privacy issue
    • stromsparung.com/ was a German electricity price comparison service. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • SwoopThat swoopthat.com was an American price comparison service for textbooks. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

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    T

    • www.tangou.cn/ used to be a Chinese price comparison service found discontinued in maintenance sweep.
    • w:TheFind.com was shop aggregator by TheFind, Inc discontinued in 2015
    • www.thetransitioner.org TheTransitioner.org] was an attempt to build "a Collective Intelligence economy" Copyright unknown
    • Tolmol.com was an Indian price comparison service
    • www.trustbuddy.se/ was a Swedish P2P lending site. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.tuotetieto.com was an effective price finder for retail chain's webshop prices in Finland
    • Tuotewiki.fi Finnish language product-oriented ( instead of holistic orientation like Consum(er)ium )

    U

    • UnitedDiversity - Also referred to as "udoo." (United Diversity Open Organisation). A very interesting London based group dedicated to building commons and sharing resources: to improve quality of life for all while simultaneously reducing ecological footprint. ud.lir.be/tiki-index.php]

    V

    • veganwiki.org/ - was a wiki for our vegan friends, currently only in German, but English, French and Spanish wikis are being prepared for setup
    • www.vikingcars.is/ was a peer-to-peer carsharing service for Iceland. Found discontinued in 2017.

    W

    • www.weinlupe.de/ was a German wine finder and price comparison service found defunct in Spring 2017.
    • Wikicompany(.com) - a community built, free content, worldwide, business directory.
    • www.wtfcon.org - WTF's The Future was a wiki that organised moots for techno-hippies and anarcho-geeks. A truly cool use of emergent democracy. wtfcon.org is down - content moved to UnitedDiversity, see above Many of the people who were involved in this seem to be somehow involved in ironfire.org/takebacktheweb Take Back The Web].

    X

    Y

    Z

    • Zibika.com was an Indian insurance, bike insurance, travel insurance, health insurance, life insurance and home insurance price comparion service