This is a section for 'tools', such as software, organizational techniques, how-to material, etc..

You can find reviews of the technical tools (software) listed here in sources such as IT Redux [1], Solution Watch [2] , and TechCrunch [3] IT Redux Office 2.0 has a database of tools, linked to the precise pages where you can find reviews of the particular product [4]

The P2P Technologies Hall of Fame

Here I intend to produce some kind of top 10 list of the most important projects conceived in a P2P spirit. Send your candidate tools and technologies to michelsub2003 at yahoo dot com.

1. Majestic-12

URL = http://www.majestic12.co.uk/

An alternative to Google, based on distributed computing and already searching more than 1 billion documents.

Key Resource Summaries

The tools for deliberation are summarized in those two documents by the DDC:

Matrix of face to face deliberation methods, at http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/resources/library/f2f_matrix_030304.pdf

Matrix of online methods to enhance public engagement, at http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/resources/library/online_matrix_041004.pdf

Robin Good's Kolabora monitors the webconferencing field, at http://kolabora.com/

P2P Resource Directory

P2P Exchange Servives: BookMooch (books), Freecycle (second hand), Free Sound, Fundable (funding), Giftegrity, Lala (CD's), Moneytwins (coins), PeerFlix (DVD's), Prosper (lending), University of Openness (learning) , Zopa (lending)