Joseph Smarr is Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo. He is currently leading Plaxo?'s ?'Open Social Web'? initiative to put users back in control of who they know when using socially-enabled sites by using open data-sharing standards. An active participant in the Web 2.0 community, Joseph has built web applications for many years, including Plaxo?'s online address book, web widgets, and was architect and lead developer of the Plaxo 3.0 rich AJAX address book, calendar, and sync tool. Joseph has a BS and MS from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence.
Joseph Smarr's Blog
Wow, I’m exhausted, but incredibly happy! I’ve been working
insane hours all week to get Google’s just-announced OpenSocial APIs
implemented in Plaxo Pulse and launched live by the time of their
announcement. And we did it! We released full support Thursday night, making
Plaxo the first site to publicly implement OpenSocial. Yay!
I only found out about OpenSocial less than a month ago (I was on vacation in
France when the initial disclosure event took place, but Marc Canter brokered
an introduction when I got back; Thanks, Marc!). And the project inside
Google was being developed fast and furious the whole time, which meant the
specs were in a constant state of flux and there wasn’t a lot of time
for such frivolities as “d... (more)
Joseph Smarr is Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo. He is currently leading Plaxo?'s ?'Open Social Web'? initiative to put users back in control of who they know when using socially-enabled sites by using open data-sharing standards. An active participant in the Web 2.0 community, Joseph has built web applications for many years, including Plaxo?'s online address book, web widgets, and was architect and lead developer of the Plaxo 3.0 rich AJAX address book, calendar, and sync tool. Joseph has a BS and MS from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence.
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