This section is for companies that have P2P-related practices: use of open source or participatory management techniques; consultants in user-driven innovation; legal filesharing companies, Netlabels using Creative Commons licenses, etc..

The P2P Company hall of fame:

1. Beatpick for its Fair Play music distribution model; Jamendo for similar efforts in the French-speaking world
2. Kiva for launching a new P2P-based microfinance model
3. Copowi]: Community Powered Internet, an ISP that guarantees net neutrality and follows the logic of social entepreneurship.
4. Meraki: building a bottom-up wireless network for the next billion people

Key Articles

Network World has a list of 10 Open Source companies to watch for

Check the following entries:

1. Open Music Business Models
2. Open Film Business Models
3. Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding
4. P2P Exchanges

Critiques

1. Criticism of Facebook [1]
2. Criticism of Google [2]
3. Criticism of Apple

Key Books

• Vaidhyanathan, S. The Googlization of Everything. 2008, from http://googlizationofeverything.com/

Key Resources

Find business details on Web 2.0 companies at Crunchbase, http://www.crunchbase.com/companies

Key Tags

Crowdsourcing; Desktop Manufacturing; Distributed Capitalism; Innovation; Netarchical Capitalism; Open Source Commercialization; P2P Banking; P2P Business Developments; P2P Capitalism; P2P Economics; P2P Exchanges; P2P Management Developments; Revenue Sharing; Social Commerce