walled garden

The device was a throwback to the early days of AOL and its walled garden alternative to the internet, he lamented.

The iPhone, although locked and frustratingly placed into a walled garden, is the epitome of simplicity.

Ten days on the island working in the walled garden relieved me of all the stress built up from my years spent in Washington, D. C.

Why stay within a closed community when you can roam outside its walled garden, into the wilds of the internet proper?

Facebook doesn't exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was in his freshman year at Harvard).

'It's a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers, ' Mr. Bray wrote on his personal Web site. 'I hate it. '

You can accomplish a lot just inside XForms, but it's definitely not a walled-garden technology.

Perhaps in 10 years time the web services landscape will be much more open, because the 'walled garden' problem is still with us in 2007.

But walled-garden economies are a long way from a fully cashless society.

China is a big country with lots of internet users, and its online walled garden will certainly grow.

If you only look inward, your blog or website becomes a walled garden, and it's much harder for new audiences to enter that space.

You don't want to keep people inside your walled garden; you want them to spread the message to new people.

It's a walled garden - why would you ever want to leave when Facebook can fill all your needs as a user? !

It has an orchard of apples and pears within a 17-acre walled garden, which was restored in 1996 based on archives of the original gardens.

A small walled garden, for example, is scaled to the close-range view of its occupant;