google gadget ventures award

Google yesterday announced Google Gadget Ventures, a program give out grants and investments to gadget developers to help them build better gadgets for Google users.

There are two kinds of fundings:

  1. $5,000 grants to fund further developing of gadgets that already have more than 250,000 pageviews per week
  2. $100,000 seed investment to companies that either start as a Google Gadget or have a large Google Gadget component

You can find the number of pageviews and users in the Google Gadget Directory.

Ga-Ga for Gadgets!

note: If you are new to this, check out Teodor’s post to get started.

[photo by Matt MacQueen, used under a CC-license]