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Links

Research - Ongoing research works in Wikipedia, Meta-Wikipedia etc.
Wikipedia - Intersting fairly completed articles in Wikipedia

Essential projects - projects with close proximity to consumerium goals

Interesting projects - Non-commercial, Non-institutional links that are useful for Consumerium
Interesting organisations - Institutions and organisations that provide reference or possibly content
Interesting companies - Commercial links
Interesting software - links to useful software projects

Interesting feeds - Interesting RSS (RDF) feeds
Strange projects - Amusing, but "not useful" sites
Bluetooth - All Bluetooth related links go here
XML - XML links here

Info on companies and products in the internet now

If you want to find out about products and companies NOW (not in X years ;) please go try these. Consumerium makes no guarantees about the validity of information offered at the sites. These links are here to save you from hours of search-and-miss-annoyance:

DB & HTML:

The Ethical Consumer - The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names.
Responsible Shopper A project run by Co-op America that has very convergent goal with us and they actually have a Searchable DB online with 350 big companies investigated.
TransNationale - Consumer guides to Multinationals and shopping. Over 21.000 brands and over 10.000 companies covered.

WikiWiki:

Lists of companies in wikipedia
SourceWatch - A collaborative effort to investigate public relations operations and operatives by The Center for Media and Democracy

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 * [http://www.responsibleshopper.org/ Responsible Shopper] A project run by [http://www.coopamerica.org Co-op America] that has very convergent goal with us and they actually have a '''Searchable''' DB online with 350 big companies investigated.
 * [http://www.transnationale.org/ TransNationale] - Consumer guides to Multinationals and shopping. '''Over 21.000 [[brand]]s and over 10.000 companies covered.
-* [http://badcorp.org/ Badcorp] - they have very interesting search engine for figuring out who owns who!
-* [http://www.theyrule.net/ Theyrule] - Topic map style visual presentations of interrelations of big [[Companies]], [[Board Members]] and [[Executives]] in the US mostly. User editable and static mapping so they have an advisory about propably being out-of-date.
-* [http://www.worldwatch.org/topics/consumption/ Worldwatch Institute Online Feature: Consumption] - The online accompaniement to the State of The World 2004 book with new features each month
 '''WikiWiki:'''
 * [[w:Lists_of_companies|Lists of companies in wikipedia]]
-* [http://www.disinfopedia.org Disinfopedia] - A collaborative effort to investigate public relations operations and operatives by The Center for Media and Democracy
+* [http://www.sourcewatch.org SourceWatch] - A collaborative effort to investigate public relations operations and operatives by The Center for Media and Democracy
-* [http://eng.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Region_list Local retailers] - A list (needing development) of small and local retailers, organized by geographic region.