Great news – we decided to give Google Chrome comic books to the top two bidders (with their permission) in our auction for charity. Those bids, for $1,600 and $1,575, respectively, will be donated to Donors Choose, an innovative not-for-profit corporation that raises money for schools.
An that’s not all. Google arranged to have both comic books autographed by creator Scott McCloud and many members of the Google Chrome team as a thank you for the donations. A picture of one of them is above.
Thank you to David Hauser from GotVMail and Lincoln Patz from Success Wallpapers for their generous bids. Donors Choose does a lot with a little, and this money will help fund at least a few different much needed school projects.
I’ve got a warm and cuddly feeling towards the world tonight because of Lincoln and David. Thank guys. I hope you enjoy the books. And thanks, Google, for the nice surprise at the end.
Awesome you got them signed Mike
There value now just tripled.
Great bids, great cause.
Great cause and a really cool book. Not to mention these guys get a nice little TC link for their efforts, all in all I say they got an awesome deal.
good cause but some of the worst signiatures i have ever seen.
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Great stuff guys, simple ideas like these can really help people in need.
Cheers,
Glen
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Great news, well done Michael. Very clever approach to the auction. Certainly raised far more than it would have on eBay.
Was there only 10 comics made? Just noticed the 1 of 10 in the top left corner. If so I’m sure they will become great investments for David and Lincoln, my congratulations to you both.
It looks like they had ten signed. No idea about the other 8.
So wait… these are 2 MORE that you got? You still have the original blank ones?
Or they signed yours as part of 8 other ones?
Chrome doesn’t hold nearly as many buttons in the bookmarks toolbar, so I remain a FireFox loyalist.
You’re right Tyler, that is my complaint as well. I am an eBay manager, and I have all different ebay pages on the bookmark bar, but they run over in Chrome.
This is not about Google or Firefox. This is for a good action that will help kids. Awesome thing guys! Kudos!
get off your high horse andy, let the people talk. i bet your the kind of guy that doesn’t laugh at a funeral
That’s great! Super smashing charity stuff
Who’s signatures are on there?
its completely unclear, other than Scott McCloud dead center.
Gr8 Stuff from Google & Techcrunch!
wow. its really great to know that you guys are have a really nice heart.
Great work!! I bet you could do this far more often and continue to succeed. For example, when a new video game comes out get it signed by the developers and auction it off for charity. I bet you could make a lot of money for charity with very little work.
Wonderful article good to know top companies like Google and techcrunch are helping for charity.
The Doners Choose website is pretty cool! Seems kind of like The Point (whose t-shirt I’m wearing, incidentally) though I suppose they don’t have that ‘no money until all the money’ thing.
google gave away a bunch of them at the dev. conf. today – are they any different?
Yeah! Good Idea & hopefully this program will be continue soon….
I think, charity is a must for big company like google..
For all those that had bid, please consider also giving to DonorsChoose. I know that you won’t give a comic book, but you will still be helping to support classrooms in our public schools across the country.
Here’s a link to the projects at my school. Maybe something will interest you:
http://www.dono...mp;school=78012
$1600 isn’t bad for a Google-Approved text link on TC. Could have hooked them up with some better anchor text though.
Seriously though, thats admirable of both buyers and Google to help out Donors Choose. Tip of the hat to all involved.
Bravo guys!
Crap!
….and you got the autographs too?
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