SharableThings

SharableThings Inc. is a Canadian corporation. Our head office is located at #630 - 943 West Broadway, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 4E1. You may contact us by email at support@sharablethings.com . http://sharablethings.com/ is our principal website. Our support site is http://support.sharablethings.com/. We do not currently offer telephone support but are... considering doing so. Our principals are Vince Hodges and Michael MacLeod. Michael has been sharing things - office space, boats, a shed, surfboards, a compound miter saw -- for years. The SharableThings concept was a natural extension of this experience. For 20+ years, Vince has been developing software. He has made SharableThings real. Vince provides consulting and development services through his web consulting business, Sourdough Labs Research and Development Corporation. Besides working on SharableThings, Vince is developing PennyMinder, a personal finances tracking webservice. SharableThings is hosted by EngineYard. Its code resides in a Github repository. SharableThings was developed on the Ruby on Rails framework. SharableThings has received voluntary and paid assistance, sympathetic audience, and other help from many people. Some of those named in the previous paragraph might be surprised to find their names listed, for their involvement with SharableThings may have been fleeting or even unknown to them. Some will never have heard the name "SharableThings", because the early development of SharableThings.com took place under a stealth name, and many people who signed non-disclosure agreements and contributed in ways they will never know were never actually told about the concept. Richard Dalton referred memorably to these, of whom he was one, as "planned innocents". Sometimes it was a kind gesture that has resulted in mention. For example, Donna Maurer (now Spencer) searched out and introduced Harry Max to us at the Information Architecture Summit in 2006 and through her seminar we met Karyn Zuidinga and Sinisa Nojkovic, early and marvellous supporters of ...Read More