Care about standards? From my comment from Jeff Dean's post at http://plus.google.com/112317652221071509598/posts/Wd1SamQcvpQ

Here's some things you can do to support standards at Google:

-- Look at the pages your team generates the way Googlebot does:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Add standard schema.org and html5 markup.

-- Discuss standards with the scant 200 other Googlers at  http://g/standards-discuss

-- Participate in a standards mailing list/group.  Plenty available for individuals at IETF or W3C.  See standards-discuss if you want to participate as a Googler on corp-oriented bodies.  Standards often suck because they're written by the standards/industrial complex instead of actual implementors.

-- Participate in an open-source project that implements a standard.  These reference implementations are often poorly or insecurely coded.  (For example a few people contributing to Apache Oltu would make Java OAuth that much better)

-- Consider exposing your amazing well-crafted stubby API via Apiary.  Be extra careful to not break compatibility for a whole year.   Write lots of integration and conformance tests.

-- Be like Vint.  Suit up.

-- Above all have fun!


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