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Archive for 'Open Social Web'

Winning Market Share in the Sharing Market

[Usual disclaimer: I currently work for Google on Google+ (which I think is awesome), but as always the thoughts on this blog are purely my personal opinion as a lifelong technology lover and builder.] At the core of innovation in social networking is the competition to be a user’s tool of choice when they have [...]

Fighting for the Future of the Social Web: Selling Out and Opening Up (OSCON 2011)

Fighting for the Future of the Social Web: Selling Out and Opening Up O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2011 Portland, OR July 27, 2011 (Note: some of the footer fonts are messed up on slideshare, sorry.) Download PPT (12.5 MB) A year and a half after joining Google, and a year after my last talk [...]

Bridging the islands: Building fluid social experiences across websites (Google I/O 2010)

Bridging the islands: Building fluid social experiences across websitesGoogle I/O 2010San Francisco, CAMay 19, 2010 View talk and download slides as PDF My third year speaking at Google I/O, and my first as a Googler! I teamed up with fellow Googler John Panzer, and together we demonstrated how far open standards have come in allowing [...]

Implementing PubSubHubbub subscriber support: A step-by-step guide

One of the last things I did before leaving Plaxo was to implement PubSubHubbub (PuSH) subscriber support, so that any blogs which ping a PuSH hub will show up almost instantly in pulse after being published. It’s easy to do (you don’t even need a library!), and it significantly improves the user experience while simultaneously [...]

Joseph Smarr has new work info…

High on my to-do list for 2010 will be to update my contact info in Plaxo, because I’ll be starting a new job in late January. After nearly 8 amazing years at Plaxo, I’m joining Google to help drive a new company-wide focus on the future of the Social Web. I’m incredibly excited about this [...]

What an RP Wants, Part 2 (OpenID Summit 2009)

What an RP Wants, Part 2 OpenID Summit 2009 (Hosted by Yahoo!) Mountain View, CA November 2, 2009 What an RP Wants, Part 2 Download PPT (2.1 MB) I was invited to give a talk at the OpenID Summit as a follow-up to my talk “What an RP Wants“, which I gave in February at [...]

Full video of my Google I/O talk now available

The kind Google I/O folks have now posted a full video of my recent talk, “The Social Web: An Implementer’s Guide“. They did a great job editing back and forth between me and my slides. If you weren’t able to make it to Google I/O (or you thought the talk was so good you want [...]

The Social Web: An Implementer’s Guide (Google I/O 2009)

The Social Web: An Implementer’s Guide Google I/O 2009 San Francisco, CA May 28, 2009 The Social Web: An Implementer's Guide (Google I/O 2009) Download PPT (7.3 MB) Google invited me back for a second year in a row to speak at their developer conference about the state-of-the-art of opening up the social web. While [...]

Portable Contacts and vCardDAV (IETF 74)

Portable Contacts and vCardDAV IETF 74 San Francisco, CA March 25, 2009 Download PPT (81 KB) or PDF You may remember the venerable IETF standards-body from such foundational internet RFCs as HTTP (aka the web), SMTP (aka e-mail), and vCard (aka contact info). So I’ll be honest that I was a bit intimidated when they [...]

Social data sharing will change lives and business (DEMO 09)

Social data sharing will change lives and business DEMO 09 Palm Desert, CA March 3, 2009 Watch full video (via Brightcove) I flew down to an oddly-lush oasis in the middle of the desert last week to attend a panel at DEMO about the future of the social web. Max Engel from MySpace has a [...]