Consumerium list of lists

Welcome to Consum(er)ium lists of lists

Lists of consumer convenience services

• Lists of shared and alternative transport and journey planners - Ridesharing aka. carpooling, car sharing, multimodal transport network finders and more
• Lists of review aggregators and review sites - The idea of reviews has been at the core of the Consum(er)ium idea right from the start.
• Lists of alternative financial services looking for affordable personal or SMB credit __or__ steadily profitable investing opportunities? w:Peer-to-peer lending could be the answer satisfying all 2 parties and by-passing the bank.
• Lists of price comparison services - The invisible green hand of Adam Smith is here to help the consumers to get the best value for their money, price comparison services can also be called price search engines or price aggregators.
• List of free education - Information wants to be free. Especially educational information.
• List of types of business entity originated in the article types of companies, was wikipediafied and can now be found at w:types of business entity for nearly all countries and languages.

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:

Business Ethics

• The Ethical Consumer - The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names.
• The Good Shopping Guide - UK
• 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

• WikiApiary - tracking 8,000+ MediaWiki wikis
• Wikitravel (.org) CC-A-SA licensed ( w:Copylefted ) place to discover new places to eat, stay, enjoy and experience.
• Lists of companies in wikipedia ( GFDLed )
• SourceWatch (.org) - A collaborative effort to investigate public relations operations and operatives by The Center for Media and Democracy

Social networks

• Diaspora - a decentralized ad-free and cost-free social network software and social network. https://d.consumium.org serving the consumer informedness effort. http://podupti.me is a site dedicated to provide various views of the pods currently active.

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Assortments of 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