The Swedish JAK bank (site in Swedish) is, in effect, a strongly ethics-driven co-operative bank which has declined to have any external commercial interests. It lends money to its approx 30,000 members free of charge, and has managed to stay in business doing so since 1965. Wikipedia has more.
Also; Documentary about JAK on YouTube (part 2, part 3, part 4)
So, as part of research for my job – and because I love this kind of stuff – I’ve been playing around with different types of social networking sites.
One of my friends, Ashley, pointed out FaceBook to me today. All I can say is – jesus christ, why isn’t MySpace more like FaceBook? In fact – why do people bother with myspace at all, when Facebook is better in just about every possible aspect? (more…)
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