I'm an experienced full-stack web developer, specializing in Node.js on the server. I've worked on multiple production projects for startups and as a freelancer, and I have experience with JS, Python, PHP, MongoDB, SQL, and more.
I'm currently working at Pilot (http://gopilot.org), organizing educational high school students across the country. I'm looking for 1-2 freelance projects over the summer, since Pilot is a non-profit.
I'm passionate about building cool stuff, and I'd love to work with you on anything!
Checkout my website at http://andrin.ga, or shoot me an email at peter AT andrin.ga
Another shameless promotion: I'm part of an organization called Pilot (http://gopilot.org), and we're doing just that - planning hackathons for the students who wouldn't normally attend one. We've got a DC event coming up on March 29 (http://dc.gopilot.org), so if anyone's in the DC area we'd love to have you as a mentor!
They're on their second iteration right now, but I would point out that they've given free upgrades to all of their current explorers, so I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same thing going forward
It depends what you want to do with it, honestly. It's definitely "cool", but I'm not sure about its prospects outside a niche market. I personally wouldn't have spent $1500 on it (and still wouldn't, after playing with it), but my employer got it for me.
In return for what? Google's not profiting off of Google Fonts, because I'm sure that whatever data they get from it could be collected by their other services.
If you're concerned about your own privacy in this respect, you can install a plug-in for most browsers that will prevent a real Referer being sent with your requests. Google will still serve you the web font, they just won't know which page you were viewing at the time.
(I'm not making any comment on Google's general strategy or how many people would actually understand that they might wish to protect their privacy in this way, just pointing out that it can be done.)
