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Joseph Smarr

@josephsmarr.com.bsky.social

Principal Engineer at Shopify. Former CTO of Triller. Former Principal Engineer at Google (NLP for Assistant, founding team for G+ and Photos). Former CTO of Plaxo.

616 Followers  |  58 Following  |  6 Posts  |  Joined: 25.04.2023  |  1.5365

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Some personal news: I’ve joined Shopify as a Principal Engineer, focused on deeper integrations w/ social platforms + creators. Beyond stoked to team up with tobi and his band of ambitious super-nerds, now including CTO MParakhin leading the charge on AI. So much opportunity!

14.11.2024 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was fun to run into @josephsmarr.com at Google Cloud Next this morning and flash back to the good old days of talking standards and interoperability, network effects and more.

We've been doing that for 15 years on this little place we call the social web and he's an OG.

29.08.2023 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My timeline right now is page after neverending page of @anildash.com responding about Prince songs. Very impressed at the depth and passion on display, but wondering about the algorithm's attention to diversity of voices. ;p Or maybe not enough others are posting yet so the algo just went #yolo?

30.04.2023 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd be there, sounds great!

30.04.2023 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Field trip!

26.04.2023 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It me.

26.04.2023 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Slide I used from the Web 2.0 Plaxo days about distributed identity online. 15 years later, can we finally make it a reality?

Slide I used from the Web 2.0 Plaxo days about distributed identity online. 15 years later, can we finally make it a reality?

Excited to see renewed energy for distributed social protocols and networks! Impressed by the progress on Mastodon (even if it has a ways to go still on UX) and glad to see Bluesky up and running now too!

Everyone should care more about owning their data and audience, and the story isn't over yet!

25.04.2023 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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