Thomas Koeppen Blog

An interesting company blog can be a great way to draw in new people through relevant content of general interest – and some of them will stay to check out the service you provide. Some companies just blog about updates to their own technology and that’s good for existing users to see. Others are fun [...]

Glen Waring, has summarized his observations on “Why do CEO’s Fail”. His thoughts are based on over 2,000 one-to-one meetings with CEO’s and over 200 all-day TEC Group meeting. An Inability to See the Bigger Picture An Aversion to Using Solid Financial Practices A Lack of Clear Vision A Lack of Passion Lack of Clarity [...]

All three announcements of MySpace’s Data Availability, Facebook’s Connect and Google’s Friend Connect seem to have the same fundamental strategy. They are all keeping theire member’s data on their servers, while sending out notifications to as many sites as they can. These notifications may be widgets, apps, feeds, iframes – but its all the same [...]

this is a usual observation in large companies. There are two key issue that often hinder collaboration: The first is misaligned goals. The second are undisclosed concerns about the risks of collaborating. Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life wrote a great story in his blog: The truth is often that the so-called jerks are really just thinking [...]