Today I came across the weblog of Jens Meiert. Jens is, as he calls himself, specialized in usable, high quality web design and development, and is working at Google Switzerland.
Besides that he is involved with W3C (HTML Working Group), UPA, and IxDA so that makes quiet a impressive resume! But that isn’t the part of Jens that I noticed almost instantly. After dropping a comment (#) on his blog, I noticed a page called; Quality Assurance: Bucks for Bugs.
And that’s where the fun starts! Anyone who is gifted with an eye for bugs, glitches and errors can earn easy cash at his website. This indicates the quality of the website and the author seems to be pretty sure of himself! But when we see this from a broader perspective, I see potential!
More people should do stuff like this, the web will be improved in a new, dynamic way! I know that there are some teams aiming to improve websites to look good in Opera, but there is much more potential for this! Jens, you’ve got a great idea, I hope more people will follow your example!
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Actually we had something similair called a ‘bugrace’ on a website I did in 2001.
We rewarded the vistor who found the most bugs with a price of fl. 100,-.
And there are probably lots of other sites who did the same.
Elja, I know there are more sites that are doing this. Can you point out an example? At what site did you had that ‘bugrace’ and how many people where involved?
We still need to have a beer together, remember?
What happened to your subscriber base? Three subscribers?:P
Robbert, please read Final chapter in the switching!
I’m still on for that beer, Coen..
We have to set a date..
I’ll see if I can find some data on the responses on the bugrace at work tomorrow.