Online marketplace auctioning lunch with Google lawyer

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In a bid to draw attention to a new marketplace that turns a person’s time or expertise into cash for a cause, allthis is auctioning off lunch with Google super lawyer David Drummond and Zynga chief technologist Cadir Lee.

Each have contributed lunch meetings to benefit their favorite causes: the San Francisco Jazz Organization and the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, respectively.

Bidding for Drummond begins at $10,000; for Lee it’s $500. Drummond may be a bigger draw after cultivating an international reputation as the spokesman behind Google’s challenge of Chinese censorship.

The site has a number of auctions, including a signed doodle from former chief Google doodler Dennis Hwang.

Founder Paul Weinstein is offering to go to work in his pajamas to raise money for Haiti.

-- Jessica Guynn