FRED Books & People around us
FRED is a proximity based social networking site focused on book sharing, allowing users to share their real books and meet new people.
FRED makes it fun to connect with new people locally to share a book or read one, meet-up and make friends. It was launched on May 1, 2014 and is currently used in 69 countries around the world.
Free for private users, offers paid services to businesses and companies.
FRED makes it fun to connect with new people locally to share a book or read one, meet-up and make friends. It was launched on May 1, 2014 and is currently used in 69 countries around the world.
Free for private users, offers paid services to businesses and companies.
- Categoría de tu proyecto
- Consumo/Producción colaborativa
- Cómo se diferencia tu producto o servicio de lo existente en el mercado?
- FRED stands between the broad categories of social reading websites (goodreads, anobii, shelfari, the library thing) swapping (swapz, whatsmineisyours, readitswapit) and dating ones (badoo, meetic, etc..). FRED combines together the components of the 3 categories in one service only. It makes people socialize, in the real world, through books by making them sharing ther collections and meeting new people. At FRED, people can transform their books asset into a relationships one. The object (the book) is at the same time the tool to foster connections and building relationships locally. Plus, FRED has a strong physical (Fred Points) and local (proximity) networking structure.
- Describe el impacto social que genera tu solución
- FRED aims to involve people in building a universal free library, growing their communities and consuming less. It aims to be the engine of a new ecosystem of reading and sociality whether it pertains to 2 people, a community or a company. FRED takes advantage of a virtual platform to spark real meaningful interactions between people living in the same area. It plays with meet-ups to encourage reading (and personal development as a consequence) and makes people socialize through books, but even though the book is the powerful connecting tool, it's also only one of many possible exchanges, namely: ideas, experiences, knowledge, culture. Strong as a cultural weapon in poorer areas where books are rare and access to culture disadvantaged, FRED indeed fights isolation in highly densely populated cities. It eventually instills sharing habits by spreading the idea that giving away is to the general good of the society we are all a part of and so to ours too.
- Descripción breve de la sustentabilidad económica de tu proyecto
- FRED offers businesses to become Fred Point by paying an yearly fee to join the Fred Points network. It also offers companies with a dedicated version of the platform to manage or create their corporate libraries. We partner with a global HR and Training provider which serves as our business development partner providing FRED to its clients in the form of subsidized training packages.
- ¿Cómo es la escala de tu proyecto?¿Zonal, regional, nacional o globlal? ¿Por qué?
- Fred is actually used in 69 countries around the world and has a global scalability. In addition to the existing English version it will be soon available in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian.
- ¿En qué etapa se encuentra tu proyecto?
- Escala
- ¿Tu emprendimiento se encuentra constituído en algún país?¿Cuál?
- It is incorporated in Italy.
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