Mobile and Social Media

You Finally Started Tweeting? Great! Here is the Only Tip You Need to Know

Posted on 14. May, 2012 by hilzfuld.

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Seeing someone join Twitter and watching them make the same mistakes so many others have made is often painful. I am referring to spamming celebrities in the hopes that they will get a response (and more followers, as a result). I am talking about misusing hashtags on every word in the tweet, in the hope to show up in people’s searches (and get more followers, as a result). And those are just two of the many things you see new Twitter users doing.

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An Interview with Google’s Senior VP Engineering, Vic Gundotra about Google+ and Misconceptions

Posted on 11. Mar, 2012 by hilzfuld.

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The tech space is so ironic sometimes. While pundits refuse to believe that anyone can compete with Android’s market share and are quick to dismiss Windows Phone with the claim “They are just too late to the game”, the same is happening to Google in the social space.

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Yes, I Tweet and Share the Same Post More than Once, Get Over it. In Fact, You Should Do the Same

Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by hilzfuld.

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As I spend more time on the social Web, some enlightening facts become apparent daily. For example, I know I hang out on Twitter and Google+ way too much, but most normal people do not. I know, it is hard to believe, but some people have lives outside of Twitter and Google+. What that means is that when I share a blog post I wrote, a cute picture, or any other type of content on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or any other platform, there are going to be many people who do not see that content.

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The Thought Process that Should Go into Writing a Title for your Blog Post

Posted on 21. Feb, 2012 by hilzfuld.

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Now that we established that everyone needs a blog, the question remains, where does one start? Well, there is the platform and topic you choose, of course, but those are topics for another time. Before writing a post, or perhaps once you finish writing the post, you are going to have to choose a title wisely. Why does the title matter? Well, the tweet below says it best.

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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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TweetBy: 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.