online community in comment and analysis
Will's Web Watch: Marc Benioff's 'field of dreams'
Comment Well, the company would have us believe the lyrics sum up the growing community of developers who are flocking to get their applications hosted on Salesforce.com's AppExchange platform. Time may show that Salesforce.com's 'first mover' advantage is... [31 May 2006]
Will SOCA kick online fraud into touch?
Comment But not all those in the policing community agree that SOCA will bring benefits for everyone. One of the objectives of SOCA is to launch a crackdown on financial crime, such as money laundering and online fraud. [04 Apr 2006]
Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
Comment Having the kind of "reputation" services we built into Vista makes the community value more important: we know which websites are phishing websites. Or [there could be] a shared PC where you go to a community centre and you want a large screen and... [22 Mar 2006]
Leader: Lessons from Aramiska's failure
Leader Some community broadband groups used Aramiska for backhaul, typically stringing together groups of homes and businesses using wireless LANs. All these customers will have been hit hard, though we applaud the scrambling efforts of many activists... [01 Feb 2006]
Opinion: Get ready for global surveillance
Comment Within this rapidly expanding online community - which includes weblogs such as the Saudi-based Religious Policeman - an often dissident and young online population can express itself on a multitude of websites that threaten the finely balanced... [25 Jan 2006]
Opinion: Don't forget security when you wrap up for Christmas
Comment Just as physical security is a mixture of community and individual actions so online recovery should be as well. Online we will normally have some from of rudimentary protection such as a firewall or antivirus software. [15 Dec 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more dial-up?
Comment But as a technologist it seemed to me that every village and small community had connectivity to offer, IT was in common use and every business was online. As one resident manager put it: "The internet is a fact of life, all businesses have to be... [19 Oct 2005]
Florian Mueller
AS Profile The founder and manager of the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, he is leading the charge in getting the message out to the media and building a community online, and has had some success lobbying politicians behind the scenes. [23 Sep 2005]
Leader: eBay - don't squash Skype
Leader Though eBay has expanded its business into e-payments, classifieds listings and community sites, it's still best known for its online auctions. The real kicker will be whether eBay will be able to keep alive the brand and community that's grown up... [12 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Free Wi-Fi in the USA
Comment There are also lots of complaints that reflect a distinct lack of community spirit including the 'why should I let anyone use something that I am paying for' brigade. Of the 15 people having breakfast there are seven online clearing their early... [09 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Goodbye TV?
Comment Moreover, I have access to a vast library of past programmes plus a growing online community of video blogs. Written in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, via free Wi-Fi When I was a kid, TV was black-and-white, controlled, licensed and very limited. [09 Sep 2005]
Minority Report: Apple as media company - and why that's good for Macs
Comment The move sent shock waves through the Mac community. The company has done the really hard work in convincing record label executives to embrace the shift to selling music online, and has proven it is serious about digital rights management and... [02 Sep 2005]
The McCue Interview: Preston City Council IT chief Peter Ryder
Comment Some of the other strands of the e-Innovations programme revolve around using technology to work with community groups in order to bridge the so-called 'digital divide' and reach disenfranchised and disadvantaged citizens. [25 Aug 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Introducing the new look silicon.com
Comment This is also a question of community. The reason for this - and the majority of our other developments - is because we are keen to build upon the strong community feel silicon.com has created over the years. [04 Jul 2005]
Minority Report: Apple revels in podcasting revolution
Comment Given these figures it's no surprise that Jobs told conference delegates he wanted the "iPod and the iTunes digital-music community" to be at the forefront of the podcasting phenomenon and "bringing the innovation into the marketplace". [30 Jun 2005]
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