Thomas Koeppen Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]