Mashup developers, its time to make some serious cash

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Mashup developers, its time to make some serious cash

by Chris Gilmer Jul 30th 2007

If you are a mashup developer, there is no time like the present to make some cash for your creations.

Mashups are not only giant part of the Web 2.0 landscape, but a number of companies are recognizing this, and dipping into their corporate pockets to award creativity and development skills. Ok, so it's cheaper for these companies to run outside contests than to actually develop their own mashups in house, but if you are already fooling around with mashups, or want to get into it, these contests are great to get involved in.

Current mashup contests include a $10,000 pot from Voxbone, $10,000 to develop a PayPal Facebook App, and a trip to Prague from Skype.

If any DLS readers have developed a cool mashup, feel free to share it with us.

Tags: cash, developer, mashup, web2, web2.0

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

MDB said 3:36PM on 7-30-2007

stop using that goddamn picture of the mac laptop with those decals on it whenever you mention web 2.0. enough is enough already!

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