Joseph Smarr

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 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 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 [...]

I’m excited and humbled by the amazing progress we’ve made this year on Portable Contacts, which started out as little more than a few conversations and an aspirational PowerPoint deck this summer. We’ve now got a great community engaged around solving this problem (from companies large and small as well as from the grass-roots), we [...]

A New Open Stack: Greater than the Sum of its Parts Internet Identity Workshop 2008b Mountain View, CA November 10, 2008 A New Open Stack: Greater Than the Sum of its Parts Download PPT (5.5MB) I was asked to give one of the opening overview talks at the Internet Identity Workshop about how the “Open [...]

The Widgets Shall Inherit the Web Widget Summit 2008 San Francisco, CA November 4, 2008 Download PPT (7.1MB) For the second year in a row, I gave a talk at Niall Kennedy‘s Widget Summit in San Francisco. My my, what a difference a year makes! Last year, I was still talking about high-performance JavaScript, and [...]