Hey everybody real quick. We had some recording issues on this one so if after a while the sound changes slightly that's why.

Also if you want to see the videos that they're referring to in this episode

from I guess 15 years or so ago go to YouTube and search the social web TV.

Welcome everybody to the Tech Theme Ride Home experience for April 28, 2022.

We have a very special, very large cast of characters today joining us to talk about the revenge of Web 2.0 social.

We've got a lot of people today who I have known for a very long time who have been around in the industry and we've sort of gone

our separate ways for a couple years and with everything going on of course Elon, you know, ostensibly buying

Twitter we thought it be worthwhile to bring in perhaps the old school perspective on, you know, where

this stuff has been and what things we've tried in the past and what lessons and learnings

we've got from those worlds and just you know in some ways for a bunch of us to

Reconact and say hello and see where we're at with things so to, why don't we actually just go around, you know, say your name and I don't know what it could be

and say like where you were before. Anyways, say your name and perhaps you know where you were I want to say in the 2007

2008 period just to kind of like give some sense of that and then we'll go from

there so actually I'll start. So I'm Chris Messina and back in the day I was on my own I was independent I worked on a project called

DZO the Dist distributed social networking project,

and eventually ended up at Google where I worked in a developer experience and

as a developer advocate.

Joseph, you want to go next.

Sure. I was the chief technology officer of a startup called Plaxo back then and we were

helped trying to open up the social web so people could stay connected in terms of their contact info.

I then also went to Google and helped start Google Plus, among other things.

And a decade later, I finally made it back into the startup land where I'm CTO of a triller.

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