Comments on: Plaxo CTO Joseph Smarr Will Lead Google's Social Web Efforts

By: Google Adds Rohit Khare to Social Team With Angstro Buy

Google Adds Rohit Khare to Social Team With Angstro Buy — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:42:29 +0000

[...] making it interoperable, an ongoing project of execs like David Glazer as well as recent hires like Joseph Smarr and Chris [...]

By: anime

anime — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:20:38 +0000

Congratulations, José. This is great news, and other Proofpoint that Google is serious about embracing the open and social web. Hoping to hear great things from you and his new team in 2010.

By: Google Me zaatakuje Facebooka?

Google Me zaatakuje Facebooka? — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:04:54 +0000

[...] zaangażowana w niego jest duża grupa pracowników (niektórzy przypuszczają, że po to właśnie Google w zeszłym roku zatrudniło byłego CTO z serwisu Plaxo). Podobno Google Me ma być klasycznym serwisem społecznościowym [...]

By: Google Seeks to Hire “Head of Social”

Google Seeks to Hire “Head of Social” — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:30:02 +0000

[...] recently, Google staffed up on advocates of open social web standards such as Joseph Smarr and Chris Messina and tried to put together industry-unified alternatives to Facebook. And in a [...]

By: SiliconANGLE — Blog — Google Buzz and the Social Inbox War

SiliconANGLE — Blog — Google Buzz and the Social Inbox War — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:32:15 +0000

[...] Google continues its war path in the social space via acquisitions a la Q&A company Aardvark andsmart hires like Joe Smarr. Moreover, I would expect similar Inbox 2.0 tactics from MSFT and YHOO in the coming [...]

By: Widgify » Google Buzz Launches Social Inbox Wars

Widgify » Google Buzz Launches Social Inbox Wars — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:41:08 +0000

[...] continues its war path in the social space via acquisitions a la Q&A company Aardvark and smart hires like Joe Smarr. Moreover, I would expect similar Inbox 2.0 tactics from MSFT and YHOO in the coming year. [...]

By: Will Creating a SWAT Team Help Google Get Social? – GigaOM

Will Creating a SWAT Team Help Google Get Social? – GigaOM — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:41:26 +0000

[...] the Social Web.” He also gave a talk at Google’s I/O event last year, which is embedded in this post Liz wrote about his move to [...]

By: Google’s Approach to Social for 2010 – GigaOM

Google’s Approach to Social for 2010 – GigaOM — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:05:32 +0000

[...] owns people’s online identities. To that end, Google has this month brought on strategists Joseph Smarr and Chris Messina, both widely known for their advocacy of the open social [...]

By: Mr. Open Web Goes to Google – GigaOM

Mr. Open Web Goes to Google – GigaOM — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:16:13 +0000

[...] he announced today on his blog. He joins Joseph Smarr, the former CTO of Plaxo, who will also start working for Google later this month. Smarr and Messina are both board members of the OpenID Foundation. The two have [...]

By: Progress on the Open Web is Finally Reaching a Tipping Point | Lifestream Blog

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:12:23 +0000

[...] we learned last week that another Activity Streams advocate (and friend of David Recordon’s) Joseph Smarr was headed to Google to lead “a new company-wide focus on the future of the Social Web”. Then I see a tweet [...]