[P2P-F] Fwd: Google Mine: Service To "Help" You Share Your Gadgets, Clothes And Other Stuff With Friends

Sun Jun 23 18:15:34 CEST 2013

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Subject: Fwd: Google Mine: Service To "Help" You Share Your Gadgets,
Clothes And Other Stuff With Friends
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

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Date: Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 7:54 AM
Subject: Google Mine: Service To "Help" You Share Your Gadgets, Clothes And
Other Stuff With Friends

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/21/google-is-reportedly-working-on-a-service-to-help-you-share-your-gadgets-clothes-and-other-stuff-with-friends/

Google is apparently working on an app called Google Mine that is meant to
help you share real-world items, such as CDs, cars, bikes, gadgets or
clothes, with your friends. The service, which is apparently closely
integrated with Google+, is said to be in private beta testing within
Google right now.

According to Chitu, the service also allows you to catalog your belongings,
review them (which could be cool for purchases) and send requests to borrow
stuff from friends. There also seems to be something akin to a wish list
and a feature that will allow you to share a list of items you don’t want
to share but just want to give away. All of this sharing, of course,
happens on Google+.

[image: google_mine]<http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/google_mine.png>

The service, the report says, is available on the web and through an
Android app. The app also supposedly includes a 3D viewer that’ll show you
your objects, though it’s not clear how you would get these models into the
app.

Google is obviously not the only company interested in this kind of
real-world tracking. Mine <http://getmine.com/>, a startup that launched
last December<http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/blippy-redux-mine-launches-a-service-for-sharing-your-purchases-with-friends/>
and
that probably doesn’t have the exact same name by coincidence, is also
working on giving its users the ability to track the things they own, but
with a focus on what they’ve bought online. This service, though, seems to
be more focused on e-commerce than on the sharing economy.

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