That’s it! Googled started testing digg style voting for their search engine result.

For those who don’t know what digg style voting is:

News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.

So basically, users submit news or links, people vote on it, then the stories with the most vote get featured on the homepage. This way the “most interesting” stories are the one your are the most likely to see.

Now how good is it for google, well since right it’ll be based by user for now (it’ll only take your vote into consideration) it should improve your search results greatly. Lets say a site as more pertinent result for you and you vote it on several occasion, this site is them much more likely to come up on top on any of your searches.

Now, I guess the way we develop site will have to evolve a bit, because now not only the content will be of great importance, but the whole experience will be since you want users to rank you higher in google.

Interesting subject to follow!

The Email Standards Project is an organization that works with the various email clients developer to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.

If you ever had to develop an HTML template, you know how hard it is for it to render properly in all the webmails and desktop based email clients. The main problem is that most of those clients don’t support HTML all at the same extent, some are pretty good at it, others plainly suck. The website provide a very useful documentation on which client support what.

The project is still very young but we’ll wait to see the mail clients developer response on this project, lets hope they also want to make our life easier

A Texas company named Sarcos spent six years developing an exoskeleton designed to help soldiers on the battlefield. What it essentially does is provide the additional strength or help needed to execute physically demanding tasks. What’s so nice about it is that it seems so fluid, it don’t look like it interfere in any way with what the soldiers want to do, it’s just there to help you!

I can only imagine this technology becoming mainstream and seeing fatty and the gym all proud cause they are now fit!
Take a look at the video

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I’m all excited, the optimus keyboard is on display at the Wired Store, which mean it might be for sale soon!

For those of you who might not know what the Optimus keyboard is, it’s in fact a regular keyboard, but all the buttons have been replaced by LCD screens. Why it’s so cool? Well to the regular user it might not sound so amazing. But for people working with multiple programs it’s always a bit hard to remember all the shortcuts associated to each of them. With the Optimus keyboard, lets say you’re in photoshop, hit apple key (or control) you regular keys (letters…) then changes to the shortcut available when you hold that key, hold apple + shift, regular keyboard then change to what’s available with that shortcut.

It’s really a sick solution, opens up a whole new world of possibilities. No prices has been released yet (not that I’m aware of) but the following picture suggest that it wont be cheap…

I want one! I soooooooo want one!

The new design!

Ok…i’ll be honest, it’s a template. I might eventually move to my own design, but I didn’t have much time to spend on personal things lately.So my blog design is the last of my worries.

I’ll try to post often enough, one quick note. I’m working on a personal projet right now involving jQuery and pixel perfection

Stay tuned!

I know I haven’t been in the business for a long time. But over my short career I noticed one “small” thing. Years of experience don’t mean as much as we might think.

One general thing I noticed is that junior people tends to be more aware of what’s coming and what are the best practice to use. They usually produce incredibly clean code with tidy CSS associated to it. As of more experienced people seems to be affected by divitis.

Here’s my little theory, the web is not what it used to be, it changed so fast, not only what we see, but the back end is now so much different than it used to be that what you learned 10 years ago is not gonna help you much today. My point is that you need to be constantly evolving, you can’t just stop at what you know, you need to keep aware of the new stuff and that’s what seems to be the weak point of more experienced people.

I worked with that girl once, she got hired for a web developer position, had 10+ year of experience. I was excited (it was actually my first encounter with an experienced developper), not only cause it was a cute little girl, but because of all the knowledge she carried. Well it turned out she had to learn everything all over again. I actually knew more than her on the actual web and I was the one doing the teaching. Eventually she got up to par and produced clean code. But in the end, what did those 10 years of experience meant? Nothing.

I know I generalize, some people with lots of experience are incredibly good, for one reason, they followed the trends (or pushed them).

Keep updated, don’t sit on what you know!