Mobile and Social Media

Dear Social Media: You’re Giving me A Headache, Please Slow Down!

Posted on 16. Dec, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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OK, this is just getting ridiculous and I waited long enough to write this post. Technology moves fast, I get it, but there’s fast, and then there’s the pace at which the world of social media has been moving over the past few months.

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Four Unfortunate Ways Twitter Is Killing Tweetdeck

Posted on 12. Dec, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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Twitter, as a company, has made its share of mistakes over the years. These include implementing its own retweeting system that makes it significantly more difficult to see how many people retweeted you and who they are (not to mention the fact that when I use the Twitter retweet, I can’t add my two cents to the original tweet, it all kind of defeats the purpose), the Twitter URL shortening service, which seems to break more links than it shortens, or many others. But the good news was that with all these issues, I always had Tweetdeck to fall back on. Then Twitter bought Tweetdeck.

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Above the Fuld: A Month in Tech (Oct 9th-Nov 13th)

Posted on 13. Nov, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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It has been quite a crazy month in and out of the tech industry and while I usually try to post these articles on a weekly basis, clearly, that did not work too well in the last couple of week. But since many (many) people seem to depend on these posts to get up to date, I am forcing myself to get back into the swing of things.

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Five Ways Twitter Imitates Real Life

Posted on 16. Oct, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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If I had a dime for every person who said to me “I don’t do Twitter. Why do I need to announce to the world what I am eating or when I go to the bathroom”? Now, I am not sure how or when Twitter got the reputation of being a service for pointless and insignificant status updates, but if anyone deserves that title, it is Facebook. The amount of content, relationships, and engagement I have gathered on Twitter over the years, or even on a daily basis, is absolutely unprecedented anywhere else on or off the Web.

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An Interview with Paul Carr about Living in Hotels and Five Words Every Startup Should Know

Posted on 09. Oct, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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The technology reporting scene on the Web is always full of excitement and drama. Paul Carr makes sure of it. The man is a constant source of entertainment both in his blog posts and on Twitter. The latest TechCrunch story brought out the best in Paul and as soon as Arrington was not permitted to choose his successor as the Editor of TechCrunch, Paul left, just like he promised he would.

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Above the Fuld: This Week’s Tech News (Sep. 25th-Oct. 1st)

Posted on 02. Oct, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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By: Hillel Fuld It is that time of the week again, time to sum up all the tech news of the previous week in one easy-to-read blog post. This edition of Above the Fuld is a little shorter than usual, as I was on vacation for three days this week. That means no coverage of [...]

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An Interview With Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder of Foursquare on Startups, Mobile, and Being King

Posted on 26. Sep, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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I recently tweeted this question. Out of the tens of responses I got to the question “What services do you use daily” almost half of them included Foursquare, along with Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter. If you are not familiar with Foursquare, it is the undisputed king of location-based services. The concept is simple. You “check in” to locations and let your friends across the Web know where you are.

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Above the Fuld: This Week’s Tech News (September 19th-25th)

Posted on 25. Sep, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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If you are new here, I have been summarizing all the content I write throughout the week in one weekly post called Above the Fuld (as in Above the Fold but since my last name is Fuld…)

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The New Facebook is a No-Brainer, If Zuckerberg Wants to Rule the Interwebs!

Posted on 23. Sep, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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I wasn’t always such as a geek. In fact, my true geekiness started at a pretty advanced age. I still remember going to camp as a teenager and everyone giving each other their email addresses on the last day. I did not have an email address yet. Same goes for IM. My friends can testify that when people had been using IM for years, I was just beginning to be fascinated by the concept that I can send someone a message across the world in a matter of a split second.

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Above the Fuld (August 7th-28th)

Posted on 27. Aug, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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Been a few weeks since I posted one of these due to a vacation. All I can say is, what a month to choose for a vacation. This month will definitely go down in the books as one of, if not the, craziest months in tech ever. Where do we start? I think I summed it up pretty well in this tweet from last week. Everyone who is anyone in tech had something to announce this month. Google, Facebook, HP, Motorola, Apple, Amazon, and Linkedin are just some of the companies that made some noise over the past month.

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The Next 88 People to Follow on Twitter

Posted on 11. Aug, 2011 by hilzfuld.

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One year ago, almost to the day, I wrote The First 99 People to Follow on Twitter. Now, with over 2,300 retweets of that post that I continue to see even today, I figured it was time for a sequel. Unlike the movie industry, in which sequels usually suck, this is a list of people I have met, engaged with, learned from, and was inspired by over the past year.