“Like this post if you want to win a new iPod Touch.” Really. Go ahead. You won’t win one, because I am not actually running a contest here, but you can still like the post. I have wanted to write this post for a while and I just couldn’t wait any longer. I don’t like Facebook contests. …
A few years ago I was sitting at the airport in Austin, laptop on lap, writing up some notes from a meeting I had earlier that day at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), the annual technology conference in Austin, TX. I looked up from my laptop to see Chris Brogan standing there looking at me. He said …
There has been a lot of commentary over the past couple months about Facebook’s new Frictionless Sharing. Announced at their annual F8 conference in late September, the basic idea behind Frictionless Sharing is that actions you perform on the Internet — like reading an article or watching a video — will be shared with your …
Recently I was asked my predictions for social media in 2011. I thought for a moment and realized my answer wasn’t really different than my answer last year. I decided to review the various blog posts I’d bookmarked a year ago and see how the expert’s predictions looked year over year. In December of 2009, …
On the evening of January 25th, like many, I was watching President Barack Obama deliver his State of the Union address. As with many events, I had my Tweetdeck in front of me the whole time. I didn’t have a search set up for the hashtag #sotu, I just watched my regular Twitter feed flow …