Thomas Koeppen Blog

The US NBC’s decision to delay broadcasting the olympic opening ceremonies by 12 hours sent people to their computers by finding videos or TV broadcasting on foreign broadcasters’ Web sites or on Youtube. NBC’s visitors could not see live pictures from Peking. More than hundreds of clips were uploaded to YouTube. As the newspager “New [...]

Obama Supporters Prefer Firefox: We’ve had about 500,000 visitors over the past 3 months, of which 61% use Firefox, 23% use IE, and 11% use Safari. Opera and some browsers I haven’t heard about before make up the rest of the traffic. This is a trend, we can see in Germany for years: the tremendous [...]

Mozilla Labs this week took steps to open up its idea factory to wider outside input, asking for community help to develop the next big ideas that might power future browsers. Like any good research lab, the goal is not an immediate product but a set of innovative ideas that can be played with and [...]

Google is testing a very Digg-like interface This video shows a user interface being bucket tested by Google to select (probably randomly determined) users. (recorded by Adrian Pike, CTO of Tatango). Users vote search results up or down – a down vote makes it disappear with a “poof,” an up vote moves the result to [...]

A CNET survey in June 2008 found that half of the instant messaging services provide full encryption: We found that only half of the services provide complete encryption: AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, IBM’s Lotus Sametime, and Skype do. To their credit, not one service says it keeps logs of the content of users’ communications [...]

I’m just testing a new web analytics approach: Woopra What is Woopra? Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. And it’s free! Woopra is an amazing tool to see live stats of your blog or small webpage, you can see live visitors, click streams. Woopra [...]

amazon.com is down more than 30 minutes. it is amazing how fast to get current web news from twitter. a simple search on tweetscan shows the Robert Svihla aka eurotransient first reported amazon.com down at 13:24 PST (17:24 GMT). Digg reported the downtime about 17:25 GMT (10 minutes later). At Amazon.com or any blogs found [...]

Meebo provides support for multiple IM protocols. Meebo has always been an attractive alternative for the traditional instant messaging clients. It can be accessed straight from the browser, without the need of installing anything. On the other hand, downloadable applications usually connect to a single network and, even if there are programs that come with [...]

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 [...]

Philosophy: As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data. The technologies already exist, we simply need a complete reference design to put the pieces together. Mission: To [...]