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Consum(er)ium list of projects and stuff that no longer exist
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A-B.iewas a nationwide independent multimodal traveller router for Ireland discontinued in 2016.
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http://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.
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ConsumerGadget.netwas an ethical information SMS+XHTML-service in the 00's in Finnish. Was discontinued and won money was donated to Kulutusjuhla Ry.CorpKnowPediawas an early 00's wiki tracking the corporate landscape with the intention of building a database to track the behaviour of corporations.http://crit.orgused to be annotation software to 'mark up' any site on the web
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Ekopedia (.org)- advice on living green in 7 languages MediaWiki, CC-A-SA. Contents are utilised in Appropedia.org (http://www.appropedia.org/Ekopedia)
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Flexcarwas a carsharing service in the USAhttp://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.
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GreenScan - http://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.
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The Matrix: An anti-capitalist databasewas a GFDL and MediaWiki running siteInterra - interraproject.orgwas 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.
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http://www.ladywiki.org/was open public space for exchange & action against (not only sexual) discrimination, public domainLiving Platformwas 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- 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]]
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Modo Fac Central, http://www.modofaccentral.com/mfc/was online social networking system lead by Kerry Santo for social entrepreneurs and all who want to Just Do It
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http://www.environmentaldirectory.net/ used to list over 13.000 organisations dealing with environmental issues in the US
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OurAnswerwas a method for the people to respond to business leaders and politicians and it ran MediaWiki and worked under GFDL)One Village Foundation, http://www.onevillage.bizresponding to the AIDS challenge in Africa by organizing unity centers as catalysts for global villages
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http://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."
PriceSCAN.comwas a site that used to keep indices on certain consumer electronics over time. Discontinued in 2011
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Recyclopedia(.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.
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SocialForge.netwas "a free service for everyone wishes to share knowledge and to collaborate to build projects related to:- participative democracy (direct democracy, consensus method, emergent democracy, ...);
- [self-governance]]
- community building
- autonomy, self-reliance
- alternative economies
- sustainable development
- anti-authoritarism in practice
- technology as a liberation tool"
- http://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
http://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 peopleThe Surpriv blogis for discussions of RFID-related surveillance and privacy issue
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w:TheFind.comwas shop aggregator by TheFind, Inc discontinued in 2015TheTransitioner.orgwas an attempt to build "a Collective Intelligence economy" Copyright unknownTuotewiki.fiFinnish language product-oriented ( instead of holistic orientation like Consum(er)ium )
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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. [1]
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http://veganwiki.org/- was a wiki for our vegan friends, currently only in German, but English, French and Spanish wikis are being prepared for setup
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Wikicompany(.com)- a community built, free content, worldwide, business directory.http://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 Take Back The Web.