Much as Ebay spurs community, she thought, this center could build connections between strangers.
Trust is the essential ingredient to any transaction, most importantly the exchanges between strangers that the collaborative economy relies upon.
Sites like Twitter and (sigh) Google Plus allow connection between strangers, as do countless topical forums and communities all over the web.
Prosper, Zopa and Lending Club all have mechanisms to transfer money between strangers and employ social networking functions that allow borrowers to tell the story of their need for capital.
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However, to establish a neutral basis for comparison, we need to take friendship out of the equation for now and consider what would make a basis for fairness between strangers.
Traditional credit is all about creating obligations between strangers.
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These sites, with names like Prosper.com, Zopa, Lending Club and GlobeFunder, use social networking tools and other software to simplify the borrowing and lending of capital between strangers and even family and friends.
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We characterize the modern cities sometimes as a place of alienation and anomie and the faceless lonely crowd and so on, but when an emergency like this happens and people are pushed against the extremes, you see extraordinary acts of solidarity and kindness between strangers.
Experiments by Michael Morris, an academic at Stanford Business School, and a group of colleagues have now demonstrated what many people instinctively suspect: negotiations are more likely to go well if they are conducted, at least in part, face to face, rather than between strangers armed with keyboards and screens.
Crimes between two strangers, or between two non-Indians, or committed by a person with no ties to the tribe, would not be covered.
"When you have files exchanged between complete strangers, that is an expansive view of personal use, " says Neil Rosini, a copyright attorney and legal counsel for MyPlay.com.
There was something to that argument: credit is a learned thing, both a legal concept and a social one that emerged in the developed world over centuries, whose core component is the creation of a sense of obligation between two perfect strangers.
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