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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.
I think it was a wise and
bold choice by Google to
run so fast and loose,
rather than doing a more
traditional big
consortium with frozen
specs and tons of details
that would never have hit
the mark in time. But it
made the race to get
things working in Plaxo
all ...