During my involvement with open source projects, the entrepreneur in me cannot help ponder on ways to apply free and open technologies or their concepts for commercial purposes. One such project/concept is The Freedom Toaster .

Having been involved in the Freedom Toaster project for sometime now, my mind has long been grappling with the idea of taking the technologies and concepts of the project and using them to start a company. These thoughts have also been in the mind of Jason Hudson, the founder of the Freedom Toaster project.

Amongst other things I've been working on a free property listing website called Property Axis. The idea being that property owners and estate agents will have a quality website service to do free property listings. It quite interesting for me as it entails using a combination of free and commercial software packages for the Joomla CMS it is also important to try and rank this kind of site in the best possible position with the search engines.

About three months ago I started a website for Property Investors . The site gives a basic forum around which we have property deals advertised, articles and more recently YouTube videos. Everything is related to property or investment in some way. 

Well the good news is that Property Investor Network, or PIN as we call it for short, has managed to attract more than 100 registered members (107 to be precise at time of writing). Even better is that the site is not just a dead web of links. We actually have quite an active member base.