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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]