Good Times To Be a Developer
June 27th, 2007
Google announced that they are offering $5K to gadget developers to flush out their widget and $100K seed to a select set of those devs to build out their business. This is a brilliant and cost effective way for Google to add applications/gadgets to their suite and clearly a defensive move to steal some of the thunder from the Facebook Open Platform move (which was incidentally a page straight from the Microsoft playbook).
So back to the post title… this is a great thing for developers. Now you, developer, have a way to get paid to build cool apps/gadgets/widgets, and I suspect that trend will continue. If you’re a business trying to hire the best devs now you may also have to compete with the likes of Google (and the other big guys who will follow along) scooping in on the local talent.  Good news for devs - but perhaps this puts a strain on hiring managers.
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