August 2011
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November 2010
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WatchAWESOME. Remember Kelly Sutton? The 23-yr-old software engineer living in Brooklyn who made a name for himself this summer by publicly ridding his life of almost everything he owns (apart from his digital / Internet technology)?
Well, NBC Nightly News caught wind of the Cult of Less blogger and featured him in a story last night about how more and more people are super-simplifying their lives....
September 2010
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August 2010
2 posts
March 2010
3 posts
eRecyclingCorps to announce phone buyback program... →
Niice.
“Start-up eRecyclingCorps on Tuesday is scheduled to announce that its customer Sprint is offering a phone buyback program in which consumers can get money for older phones when they upgrade to a newer model.
eRecycling Corp has developed an in-store application and a Web service, offered from Sprint’s site. The application lets a person see how much an older phone is worth...
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
9 posts
Recycle Old Cell Phones for Haiti →
unconsumption:
“Your donated cell phones won’t go directly to quake victims — instead, ReCellular refurbishes and sells the phones in developing countries as an alternative to new models. The full value of each donated phone is then contributed to the American Red Cross.”
OWNERSHIP 2.0
It amazes me that major consumer product companies like Apple haven’t shifted to an Ownership 2.0 business model.
What’s Ownership 2.0?
This guy explains the concept quite well on his blog:
Ownership 2.0 models are distinguished by providing cyclical total ownership solutions that allow a customer to decide all parts of the buy/own/dispose process at the point-of-purchase....
WatchBUY MY STUFF
I’m going to sell my BlackBerry Curve 8320 (yep, that’s it on the left) and replace it with the BlackBerry Bold 9700 on April 1, 2010.
Want it? Make me an offer and I’ll give you first dibs on my old smartphone before I post it on Craigslist or eBay.
Trust me, she’s a beaut.
