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Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas about what's next for Wikipedia and why the site needs geeks of all kinds. If you've ever written something... [05 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News In a recent silicon.com survey, more than a quarter of respondents admitted green IT was off the agenda because of the recession. It's no surprise that for some companies green initiatives are dropping down the list of... [29 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News The recession has undoubtedly brought a change in priorities - green IT has dropped down the corporate agenda with fewer companies implementing or creating a green IT action plan. It's never been easy being green,... [22 Oct 2009]
Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment In good times and bad, green IT deserves a spot on the CIO agenda. Stuart Roberts explains how to get it right. Before the downturn, green IT - or environmentally sustainable computing - was one of the common threads on... [21 Oct 2009]
Win a luxury New Year's Eve package worth £1,000
News The agenda for the week was set by the results from the 2009 Business Pulse - the UK's largest survey of smaller enterprises this year, which revealed that 75 per cent of small businesses believe the economy will see... [20 Oct 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is a familiar face on the Agenda Setters list and one whose star is rising. The wiki is a pervasive and visionary milestone for web 2.0," as one... [08 Oct 2009]
Steve Jobs
AS Profile Steve Jobs becomes the only person, in the 10-year history of Agenda Setters, to have made it to the top of the list - twice. There's no doubt Jobs has been one to watch for some time - particularly after the turnaround... [08 Oct 2009]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile As founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg topped the Agenda Setters list in 2007 after the social network really took off, but he plummeted to 47 last year as judges felt his time had passed. Summing up... [08 Oct 2009]
Christian Engström
AS Profile So it is apt that the deputy chairman of the Swedish Pirate Party, Christian Engström, should enter the Agenda Setters list for the first time at the relatively lofty position of number 12. The issue of piracy has never... [08 Oct 2009]
John Chambers
AS Profile Cisco CEO John Chambers is no stranger to the Agenda Setters list - 2007 saw him ranked in the top five with the judges impressed by his handle on web 2.0 developments. As one Agenda Setters judge put... [08 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile As such, he's a regular feature on the Agenda Setters list. This year the serial entrepreneur continues to be a serial Agenda Setter, landing just outside the top 10 in 11th place. As one... [08 Oct 2009]
Lord Stephen Carter
AS Profile One Agenda Setters judge described Carter as "the figurehead for the call for ubiquitous broadband across Britain". Lord Stephen Carter made his mark in his former guise as UK Minister for Communications, Technology and... [08 Oct 2009]
Dr Robert Atkinson
AS Profile It's the first time the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (Itif) has made it into the Agenda Setters list. Dr Robert Atkinson and the influential Washington-based thinktank he... [01 Oct 2009]
Tim Berners-Lee
AS Profile While last year's Agenda Setters' winner might have slipped to number eight this year, if anything he is playing an even greater role in the world of technology in 2009. The inventor of the world wide web (way back in... [30 Sep 2009]
Stephen Fry
AS Profile However, the technology perhaps most closely associated with this Agenda Setter is Twitter - his account has more than 700,000 followers - and he remains the best known British user of the service. Fry gets his place on... [30 Sep 2009]
