Leader: Now we are seven

Update on 7/7/05: Due to the unusual circumstances today in London, silicon.com has received a number of emails from concerned readers and would like to say that all silicon.com staff are present and accounted for at our London headquarters. Our thoughts are with those people harmed in the attacks and their families.

It's not as if there isn't much going on this week. Newspapers will see a jostling for space tomorrow morning among several top stories - on events such as London winning the race to host the 2012 Olympiad (and for that we did indeed have a tech angle today), the G8 summit at Gleneagles and the ongoing Make Poverty History movement.

But amongst all this, at a somewhat less earth-shattering level, it's been a busy time at Silicon Towers. You'd think that in between waxing lyrical about our brand new website and even the launch of a digital living publication across the other side of the office, we wouldn't have much else to talk about.

Well today sees us turn seven years old. For the staff members that have been here most or all of that time, it's hard to believe.

We have been and remain a dot-com, one that rode the late 1990s boom, only to fall along with (seemingly) all the rest of tech and telecoms companies and only now to recover. Long may the more sensible and sustainable times roll.

We would be lying if we said the new-look silicon.com was intended to be launched alongside this latest milestone. It's a happy coincidence, though one that goes some way towards showing how far we've come.

From our roots eschewing print for text and video news delivered on the world's most efficient distribution network, we have now added content types such as case studies, photo stories, cheat sheets for the less-technically minded and unique features such as CIO Jury.

We will continue to serve the user community and innovate. Our recent ID cards special report is an example of the former; additional site features later this summer will again be examples of the latter.

So stick along for the ride over the next seven years. This publication is nothing without you, our readers.

We'd like to leave you with a comment from one reader. He wrote in about our redesign and told us it is like "seeing a favourite son become an adult". We hope we can keep on growing.