I’m at the Ebay Developer conference and they just unveiled a new community for developers to showcase their projects.

What’s really cool is their development radar. It’s a community driven approach to evangelizing development. Basically, if you’re not technical and you’d like a widget that does something wild with your watch list or current auctions, you can post your idea at the radar and a developer can build it out. It has some Digg like functionality where users can add their own “demand” for already posted functionality.

What a great way to connect developers to the community that uses their tools. Its a mutually beneficial solution – users get their functionality and developers get their audience. Pretty smart.

There’s a huge push here to start driving buyers to the popular auction site – interesting stuff. The web really does give power to small teams – can you create the killer app that makes a mark on Ebay’s income statement?  If you can, they’re giving away a PS3.

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