When open web champion Tantek Celik announced he was joining the Mozilla Foundation, not everyone was happy about the news, since he marked the third open web proponent who has joined a large corporate entity. Can open web advocates still be effective if they aren’t independent? Read More »
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On August 23, 2007, the Twitter hashtag was born. Invented by Chris Messina (now an open web advocate for Google), the first tweet with a hashtag read as follows: “how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?” Read More »
Chris Messina, self-titled “open web advocate,” will take that official title at Google starting Monday. He joins Joseph Smarr, the former CTO of Plaxo, who will also start at Google this month. Both are board members of the OpenID Foundation. Read More »
