Joseph Smarr
@josephsmarr.com
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.
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!
November 14, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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!
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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.
We've been doing that for 15 years on this little place we call the social web and he's an OG.
August 29, 2023 at 5:50 PM
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.
We've been doing that for 15 years on this little place we call the social web and he's an OG.
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?
April 30, 2023 at 2:50 AM
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?
It me.
One great joy right now is finding out how many different people in every area of my life, and in different parts of culture/society, are all excited about the new Zelda game.
April 26, 2023 at 4:22 AM
It me.
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!
Everyone should care more about owning their data and audience, and the story isn't over yet!
April 25, 2023 at 8:36 PM
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!
Everyone should care more about owning their data and audience, and the story isn't over yet!