Subject
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Sharing Economy
Bookmarks
Flightfox + Airbnb + Vayable: The Crowd-Sourced Vacation
Flightfox, Airbnb, and Vayable teamed up in 2012 to create a crowd-sourced vacation package — an early experiment in bundling sharing-economy services into a unified travel experience, before the category had that name.
From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, Sharing Is Becoming Big Business
USA Today's 2012 mainstream-media moment for the sharing economy — when Airbnb, TaskRabbit, and Zimride started getting treated as a coherent movement rather than isolated startups. The naming of a category is itself a business event.