The UpDown plans to single out the members whose imaginary portfolios show the best performance and use their strategies to manage a real stock fund seeded by Swiss angel investor Joachim Schoss.

Revenues from the fund will be used to operate the company and reward the top performers.

Discover organization relations
Make more strategic donations
Promote more financial transparancy between different forms of (related) organizations

The motivation behind Donorge is to grow the ability to transparently support ideas and creation, either localized or connected around the world. What is supported inside Donorge is what you support and what in turn those ideas and creations you support support. This allows for there being more transparency and potential effectiveness at the resource layer of organizations and their voluntary contributed resources.

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Know where
your money goes!

Effortlessly track and visualize your spending.
Visualize those dreadful credit card statements in
exciting new ways.

Social Entrepreneur data discovery platform (US). Uses social networking diagrams to discover areas of overlap among social enterprise entities, both for profit and non-profit

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A grassroots wiki community experiment in banking from scratch

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Jwaala was started in 2006 with a simple goal in mind – to use the power of technology innovation to provide great solutions to Credit Unions and their Members. To accomplish this goal, Jwaala has brought together a team of experienced and passionate software innovators, and partnered with forward looking and innovative Credit Unions.

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. Instead, these tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network. Advantages:

• Bitcoins can be sent easily through the Internet, without having to trust middlemen.
• Transactions are designed to be irreversible.
• Be safe from instability caused by fractional reserve banking and central banks. The limited inflation of the Bitcoin system’s money supply is distributed evenly (by CPU power) throughout the network, not monopolized by banks.

Bitcoin is an open source project currently in beta development stage. Development is hosted at SourceForge.

By Colin Hendersion - Observations made at LIFT07 on structural reasons why Banks may not be able to compete with Social Lending. Speaker notes to Can Bankers be bloggers too here

NZ Extracted from site Have an idea? Just need funding? Want to join with others to support to an idea? This site is for you.

The UpDown plans to single out the members whose imaginary portfolios show the best performance and use their strategies to manage a real stock fund seeded by Swiss angel investor Joachim Schoss.

Revenues from the fund will be used to operate the company and reward the top performers.

An RSS feed aggregated a collection of posts on banking (mostly retail and payments)

excerpt from site

Know where
your money goes!

Effortlessly track and visualize your spending.
Visualize those dreadful credit card statements in
exciting new ways.

US

Netherlands

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Funding platform for entrepreneurs, artists, charities, journalists and inventors

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