$900 can purchase a lot. With taxes updated on, it can purchase you a flattering good iPad 2 — supposing you can find a . For iOS developer Hazem Sayed (pictured at right), $900 paid for him the initial place in the iPad 2 line at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in Manhattan and the best venue to surveillance his giveaway AskLocal amicable / geolocation app.

The person who was the “real” initial in line, 20 year-old college tyro Amanda Foote, entirely approaching to sell her enviable place in line. When an app developer with a interested eye for promotion meets a college tyro who needs money, great things happen. Both Amanda and Hazem received their fifteen mins of fame, and Hazem was able to obtain the word out about AskLocal after being interviewed by Fortune , the Wall Street Journal , and Business Insider , together with other media outlets.

Hazem is no foreigner to TUAW; he’s visited with us at the TUAW counter at Macworld Expo for a few years, and you used AskLocal to entice readers to the meetup this year. The app is unique in that it allows users to talk by place rsther than than by name, and Hazem remarkable that the app was being heavily used by people in line at a few of the Apple Stores to talk tips about line length, approaching figures of iPads, and people slicing in line.

As for Amanda, she wasn’t interested in shopping an iPad 2. Instead, she’s using her $900 to “go see Lady GaGa in concert.”

[via Business Insider , The Wall Street Journal ]

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