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The ZDNet Community - sign up!
Blog The start for you is up there on the top left hand corner of the page, where it says Sign Up Now! We have the technology. We have the stories. We have the expertise. Now we need you. We're aiming to become the UK's most exciting, most useful online...
[October 30, 2006, 15:26]
Sign the Bletchley Park e-petition
Blog As you know, Bletchley Park is under threat. The iconic site is crumbling and desperately needs the external funding that befits its place in British computing history. Well, here's your chance to show your support for Bletchley's survival.
[July 30, 2008, 12:40]
Oracle to join Jericho forum
Blog ZDNet UK has heard a rumour at the Infosec conference -- apparently Oracle is just about to sign up to the Jericho forum. Oracle's identity management evangelist Des Powley is going to be speaking at the Jericho forum event at Infosec -- a sign...
[April 24, 2007, 12:35]
Google Apps gives OpenID a boost
Blog Google has turned each of the one million plus Google Apps customer domains into an OpenID provider, enabling millions of people to sign in to OpenID-supporting websites with their work, school or organization identity.
[July 29, 2009, 11:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Yet there's no sign of anything. It's a new Microsoft USB keyboard, which shows every sign of gathering dust. Every so often, everything stops dead -- and I mean dead, no mouse movement, no screen activity, no sign of interrupts -- while the...
[March 11, 2005, 17:10]
How not to make money from Twitter
Blog I had been reading about Be A Magpie (also know as just "Magpie"), a service that enables you to sign up to "tweet" advertisements during your normal use of Twitter and earn money from each one placed.
[November 14, 2008, 13:32]
Friday
Blog That's tough, says Microsoft, adding snidely that people shouldn't expect too much from a free service in a tough economy, oh and by the way would you like to sign up for the paid version? If Microsoft had announced the move 30 days in advance; if...
[July 26, 2002, 14:40]
MoD pays £150m for soldier tech
Blog A National Audit Office report earlier this summer said the NAO could not sign off £6.6bn worth of equipment as there was insufficient evidence of the kit's existence. When we sign a contract for £150m, we expect to get the equipment," said Davies.
[September 8, 2009, 17:35]
iPhone heaven/iPhone hell
Blog But I digress, the specific torture I had to endure to become an iPhonista, was wallowing through the 02 registration and sign-up process in the Apple Store. If you have been following the hoopla surrounding the launch, you'll know that Apple was...
[July 17, 2008, 19:00]
Does Yahoo! OpenID 2.0 support open up security concerns?
Blog Yahoo’s implementation is based on the OpenID 2.0 specification, which was finalised in December 2007 and includes new features that improve the security and usability of OpenID, making it the most user-friendly single sign-on and online user...
[January 17, 2008, 18:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The sign goes on to explain that over the year, this will produce enough electricity to run nineteen radios A large sign containing a number of very bright, very big red LED numerals was glowing away on one wall.
[May 5, 2006, 18:50]
OpenID and Facebook Connect: actually, does there need to be a winner?
Blog With just a few clicks, visitors to your site can sign up using the identity from a number of sites (Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, Google Mail, AOL to name a few), or continue to register using your existing sign up process.
[February 20, 2009, 15:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But here we are in 2004, and there's no sign of 'em. No sign of them over here. But again, there's no sign of it coming over to Europe. Monday 27/10/2004 Primed by an exciting story in Spectrum, the online newsletter of the IEEE, I'm off sniffing...
[October 1, 2004, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fantastically expensive at £5 an hour, I can instead opt for a special, T-Mobile telephone subscriber option where as a sign for how much they value my custom I can buy access and charge it to my mobile phone bill for a mere £6 an hour.
[June 11, 2004, 19:15]
Partnering for Profit or Pleasure
Blog The ‘just sign here and we will take care of your problems’ carrot can be difficult to resist, particularly when under time pressure to deliver. The gotcha and get-out clauses will protect them at the first sign of real trouble, and although they...
[March 16, 2009, 8:37]
Phorm's underlying problem - and how to fix it
Blog People will want to know what they're signing up for, and how it benefits them, and most will choose not to sign up, thanks. And if they don't sign up, then advertisers won't be interested. It works by collecting information about how the customers...
[March 12, 2008, 6:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Diary pal decides to sign up to an online SMS service for a free trial. Tuesday 04/09/2001 A cautionary tale. He sent off one or two of his allocated handful of gratis messages, and thought no more about it.
[September 18, 2001, 1:38]
Bringing Computer Aid to Cuba
Blog It’s too late to sign-up unfortunately, but I am sure IT charity Computer Aid would bite hands off for more donations for its annual charity cycle ride which kicks off next month. Last year’s event was in Kenya (it's shocking to see that much of...
[January 28, 2008, 9:54]
Phorm ......
Blog A symptom, a disease, a sign of the time, or just the way thing are or are going to be? There is plenty of lively debate on other forums but ZDNet and it's readers remain relatively quiet and, dare I say it, relatively quiescent.
[May 5, 2009, 8:49]
Samba marks Novell's card over Microsoft deal
Blog Although Microsoft's deal with Novell remains frustratingly under-documented - which in itself is a bad sign - there is increasing unease in the open source community about its consequences. Today, the Samba developers have released an open letter...
[November 12, 2006, 19:43]
