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 something like, “You don’t look exhausted. … How’d you do that?”  Chris was making reference to the fact that SXSWi is a bit of a marathon, and many people only prepare for a sprint.
I told …

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 Facebook network, without you initiating it. In other words, without you having to click a ‘share’ button or ‘like’ button or any button.  When you first connect with a website or application that has integrated …