Can anyone lend me a ... ?

We're really pleased to announce that we'll be releasing a new thingloop feature early next week. This has been a frequently requested feature, and we hope you find it really useful.

You can now 'shout out' and ask if anyone has the item you need or want to borrow. The new feature will be available from the Messages view.

We've tried to make it as flexible as we can, so you can message a subset of your contacts, or all or them, update Facebook, and send automated emails (we've put limits on these to avoid people getting spammed by too many messages).

We hope you like it, let us know what you think.

iPhone App
For those wondering about the iPhone app, it is coming. Thanks for your patience!

The app has been submitted to the Apple store. Unfortunately, this can sometimes be a lengthy process, but we hope to have it released soon.

Sharing Infographic

Hey, so we made the Collaborative Consumption infographic, which is cool.

It's a pretty interesting graphic and provides a great timeline of much of the activity in the collaborative consumption space.

We're really looking forward to reading the book. If you're interested in finding out more then head over to the Collaborative Consumption website.

PS. For those of you awaiting the iPhone app, fear not, it's coming. The Apple app submission process turned out to be more involved than we'd anticipated! Sorry for the delay.