Thomas Koeppen Blog

Today Twitter isn’t mass media. It is still a niche communication platform outside US. But what happens if Google will buy them? It will create a direct competitor to all journalists and existing media channels, like Fox News, CNN or BBC. Twitter users as “Citizen journalists” will post their stories and have adwords. They will [...]

Auch zur diesjährigen (noch) weltgrößten Computermesse Cebit gibt es wieder Ticketverlosungen. Siehe zum Beispiel hier die Aktion von Milchrausch (Blog von Hauke Leweling), wo 20 Tickets verlost werden

Google gives us great search results. Facebook helps us to stay in touch with a lot of friends… Twitter helps us to get “social reports” on what happens around the world, more and more faster than existing media. Ok, for search we have a lot of alternatives, like Yahoo, Digg etc. It’s all about competition [...]

Peter Saint-Andre (Director of the XMPP Standards Foundation) was interviewed by Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte this week on FLOSS Weekly. The core technology behind XMPP was invented by Jeremie Miller in 1998, refined in the Jabber open-source community in 1999 and 2000. Listen to his interesting interview:

There are a lot of interesting web projects growing around the world, outside US and Europe. Barcamp Vietnam was the first event in Saigon, showing activities from Vietnam to Singapore as well as Cambodia. Another presentation from Barcamp Bangkok show some interesting Asian of African web projects: Interesting Web/Mobil Services around the world View SlideShare [...]

The mobile Web is having its time in the limelight. There are mobile applications with us for quite some time. You can send text messages to check your remaining prepaid minutes, you can send Twitter messages from mobile or can send TANs for phone banking. As the first device the iPhone integrates traditional phone capabilities [...]

End of October Microsoft announced they would be supporting OpenID with Microsoft Live. Google followed with its own announcement, that Google accounts would serve as OpenID accounts. We know, Yahoo has supported OpenID for a while now, anyone using Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail now has a valid OpenId. Additionally MySpace and AOL also support [...]

It is amazing how to get latest information about worldwide news. The mixture of ning and twitter made it possible to get recent news on Gustav (gustav08.ning.com). I read on Twitter, that Gustav is now a category 5 storm before i saw it in TV. Maybe in some months we Twitter feeds as headlines at [...]

Congratulations to this new Twitter song: just found at Ben Walkers ihatemorning Blog; cannot really agree with his domain name, i love mornings; but the song is great. Good social advertisement.

There started an interesting discussion on user experience with OpenId. Chris Saad suggested on his blog: “using email as OpenID” (published 22 Aug 2008). That’s a really good idea. All non-tech people must be confused to enter a URL as identifier on login screens and everybody knows his email-address quite well and use it very [...]