<<It looks like Google is forming their own little mercenary group of social web experts. After hiring Chris Messina, who has been an advocate for open web standards, and Joseph Smarr, the former Plaxo CTO, they've added a third big name to the team. Will Norris announced on Tuesday that he would be joining Google as part of a new social web team. Will Norris worked with Chris Messina on an open source project called DiSo, which was designed around creating open standards on the web.>>

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