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Hi, I’m John McCrea, and I chose the handle “The Real McCrea” because I was tired of getting confused with the other people with the name John McCrea, like the lead singer for the band cake or the comic book illustrator from Northern Ireland who owns johnmccrea.com, or even the other one with the slightly different spelling, who wrote the poem “In Flanders Field”.

I write here about big stuff that I’m passionate about, primarily the Web’s transition from the walled garden model of social networking to an emerging Social Web, built on the new “Open Stack”. Together with Joseph Smarr, David Recordon, and Chris Messina, I do a weekly Internet TV show on the topic, The Social Web TV.

I’ve been honored to be invited to do a guest post on TechCrunch, entitled Facebook Connect and OpenID Relationship Status: ‘It’s Complicated’. I was flattered to learn that another post of mine, Birth of the Social Web: Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect Now Available to All, was called “essential reading” by Wired. And I was surpised and excited to see that even the New York Times linked to my coverage of the OpenID UX Summit.

I also head up marketing at Plaxo, a company often at the center of the Social Web stories I write about here. I try to be candid about any conflicts that presents, but please hold me accountable if you think I am becoming biased in my blogging.

And if you want to even more from The Real McCrea, follow me on Twitter!

If you want to communicate with me, my email address is john at plaxo dot com. And my mobile number is 650.218.4502.