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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wow, great videos from the leweb3 December 2007… Some thoughts about affiliate spam and Murphy’s law: How can you help? Consider building curation into your service Police your service Reduce anonymity without reducing Punish bad people Example in Social Networks: Myspace: many fake people Facebook: less fake people LinkedIn: no fake people Maintain the core [...]