Very interesting to see an Outsource Marketplace for Software Development company presenting their software development outsourcing data in a visual way. The graphs include both producer and consumer numbers. Very interesting, Thank you and Great job!
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Background information from the oDesk press release:
PALO ALTO, CA (November 7, 2006) — Today oDesk (www.oDesk.com), an online marketplace for remote work, and O’Reilly Media announced a partnership to publish data and trends on the economics of the global programming workforce. An early beta version of the “oDesk Economy” website (beta.oDesk.com/economy) will be demonstrated at the Web 2.0 Conference this week in San Francisco, and a production version will launch in early 2007.
“As business moves online in the Web 2.0 era, we have access to an array of new data sets about our business activities. Using these newly available sources, the O’Reilly Radar team has developed new techniques to analyze and visualize emerging technology trends,” said Roger Magoulas, Research Director at O’Reilly. “We’ve worked with Amazon to analyze data on technology book sales, with Simply Hired to analyze online tech job listings, and with Technorati to analyze blogs. Now we’re pleased to partner with oDesk to get access to their data on global supply and demand for technical projects and programmer hourly rates, to find out what’s hot and what’s not in technology.”
The oDesk Economy website will use data visualization tools developed by O’Reilly to display and identify emerging patterns of usage for programming languages and technical skills around the world. O’Reilly will analyze projects collected from thousands of contract programming and technical assignments conducted by oDesk buyers and service providers in over 50 countries.
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“To paraphrase Thomas Friedman, the world of technology is flat – globalization and telecommunication have created a level playing field for the global technical skills market,” said Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk. “However, the hourly rates being paid for software developers with top technical skills are definitely NOT flat. At oDesk we’re seeing substantial growth on our marketplace for projects using Web 2.0 programming languages like Ajax, PHP, and MySQL.”
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