SwapMeet 2.0

So user-generated content is not enough for the machinations of the web. Next up is user-owned items. Anything from CDs, books, DVDs, games etc are now all part of the global trading station known as the worldwide web. A new start-up SwapTree - currently in private Beta - is bringing you the physical peer-based network! Through 'complex algorithms' the site allows members to share at no cost their physical belongings (so far only small envelopable items, but the platform is surely scaleable). Swaptree are not the first to the market, but I must say the project has an attractive look and feel to it.
Other players in the physical / web community space include Fundable (we all team together to buy an item or fund a trip or .. you name it. Fundable has come a long way since its Beta in 2004), Stuffopolis (your online database and sharing platform. Not much activity seen recently).
Makes you wonder who will be the first to receive the Google acquisition call..
Bottomline - wonderful to see how the pendulum is swinging back from taking the off-line world online to taking the on-line world off-line.