eBay Wants You To Help Build Its Site. And They’re Willing To Pay (A Little)
EBay is relying on the ultimate form of cheap labor to help it build an internal application — a developer contest. The company is shelling out $1,000 ($750 for winner, $250 for second place), via crowd sourcing Web site
At this point we’re accustomed to companies who use developer contests to ramp up interest for a platform that they’ve released (like the iPhone, Android, or Facebook), but this looks to us like eBay is just trying to get some cheap programming and design. We’ve asked the company to explain.
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