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- nicepants, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24Would a shark with a laser beam be considered a "Gadget"?
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9I'd show her my gadget.
- antiver, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Maybe if Microsoft did the same thing for the Windows Sidebar, it wouldn't suck so much.
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4So she's hot and rich? Yum.
http://www.bartnagel.com/images/mayerMarissa_5102.jpg - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Better picture of her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marissa_Mayer.jpg
Quite the pretty lady. - matthwk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I'm looking forward to this- beyond RSS feeds, and a couple of no-brainer widgets, there's not much selection. It's great they fund programs like this and the recently started Google Summer of Code.
- resta6, on 01/12/2009, -2/+4Google just wants to save money...just look at their recent purchases they paid millions for a few gadgets. Honestly its a horrible deal if you are a developer.
$5000 option- you need to have a ton of traffic already, just monetize your existing traffic w/o giving up any equity
$100,000 option - you are showing Google your business plan, you are giving them the whole insight. A common thing with venture capital firms...but with VCs you know they won't be stealing your ideas....google on the other hand? right up their alley. - crazybugger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I won't be surprised if this article goes to all time high on digg.
- smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1i think you need to get yours eyes checked: http://www.google.co.uk/press/images/marissa_mayer_lg.jpg
- smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1it's not that hard to get 36k hits a day if you have a good service or content that people want. heck my first website that i built in high school or junior high received 4000-5000+ hits a day after just a few weeks. and while i took a lot of pride in my site, this was in jr. high/high school, and looking back on the content now, it was really just a bunch of stupid crap.
i knew close to nothing about building websites back then, and the content was just some humorous programs and articles that my dumb friends and i came up with. and if i could do this back then when the internet was far less popular, without any knowledge of content syndication and website promotion, and without even a very good idea to start with, then i can't imagine it being too hard for talented developers who are deserving of the grant to at least net 10x that amount of traffic to get 350k+ weekly page views.
heck, during its peak popularity my ***** site (made by a stupid 15-year-old, mind you), was garnering 10k page views a day. so that's 70,000 weekly hits--just over ~1/4th the amount of traffic required. so it really isn't that unreasonable to demand at least 250k weekly page views for a $5000 grant. - smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1eh, i don't think you understand what a grant is.
and how do you know that Google will be stealing your ideas whereas other VC's won't? right up their alley? please give me one example of google stealing ideas from independent developers in the past.
if you look at google's _actual_ history with things like the summer of code, you'll see that they like to give back to the community as much as they benefit from it. this fosters a better relationship with the development community, including open source developers. it also creates good will and makes innovative developers more likely to apply for work at google. but mostly, this is just an extension of their business ideology which is rooted in how the company was founded in the first place. - smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1here's a better picture IMO:
http://www.google.co.uk/press/images/marissa_mayer_lg.jpg - smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1first off, not every developer has the initial investment capital required to get themselves started. this is a good way for google to help these developers begin developing their ideas.
secondly, this is venture capital and grant money. they aren't purchasing ownership rights from the developers. grants are a way to stimulate research and encourage the development of new ideas. soliciting seed investments is the obvious second phase for developers who want to take their ideas to the next stage.
so i don't understand how you can construe this as anything other than google trying to give back to society and encouraging creative enterprises. - Four20, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2try again
- stoic05, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Surely it would be best to get your gadget out there and make the big G pay you a lot more than $100k for it? Sounds like they want to avoid paying $1billion for the next youtube or myspace. Can't blame them for trying I suppose.
- randomgeek, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2There is no equity issue with the 5 grand, but the second thing you bring up is a good point. Google is swallowing up small companies left and right MS-style. With this, they get all your great ideas and when you fail (most startups do), they have everything you did, the equity, AND Google's money/power to make it their own product.
Not saying that is their game plan with this, but I'd be weary regardless. - dannywhite1, on 12/02/2008, -0/+0mad "gadgets"...
http://www.dwhitewebdesign.com/
http://www.2let2sell2buy.com/
http://www.whomain.com/
http://www.visitcamposol.com/ - airstrike, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I'd hit it.
- diggitizer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I don't think they will be stealing per say... and I slow to use the borg term of assimilate. More like incubate, enable and inspire.
Dear google, please give 500,000 to openmoko, I'll buy 2, and I am already buying to iphones. Maybe I need help. - jjquave, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2looks like you have to already be getting 250,000 weekly page views for an existing gadget to even qualify for the contest.
- iezcha, on 09/18/2008, -0/+0how make it posible???
by http://fx-finance.net - PantherX, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Meyer. Get it right.
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4If you consider the look of a Dalmation's ball sack pretty.
- dengzhi, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2U-G-A-LY
- crazybugger, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1very rationale thought.
- americanforest, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Well, I do have this one idea: It's a mat... with conclusions on it....that you can jump to...
- nealparr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Go-Go-Gadget! I always wondered where he got the dough for all that tech. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Gadget
- iChaz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0well,
we like to call it a job.. basically everywhere.. - chubbybubba, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Certainly a Croc with a plasma blaster is a Gadget.
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1I've already invented the transplantable alien robot frog eye gadget and submitted it to her. Clearly I'm in the lead.
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=643642408&size=l - wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1I'll create a slew of Windows Live Google Gadgets and hit the 250,000 page view count with a botnet. That would probably really piss her off.
- SHOVELLit, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1cool, i think that's awesome. I'll invent a gadget that allows me to win the competition
if it doesn't make sense, think... - indicas, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2No, it'd be considered a stale, old joke.
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