50 most important people on the web

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Folks at PCWorld compiled a very comprehensive set of 50 people that had the most impact on the World Wide Web. These are the people that contribute big time in building the WWW we surf today. PCWorld says

We considered hundreds of the Web’s most noteworthy power brokers, bloggers, brainiacs, and entrepreneurs to figure out whose contributions are shaping the way we use the Web.

1. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin Executives, Google

2. Steve Jobs CEO, Apple

3. Bram Cohen Cofounder, BitTorrent

4. Mike Morhaime President, Blizzard Entertainment

5. Jimmy Wales Founder, Wikipedia

6. John Doerr Venture capitalist, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers

7. Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist

8. Peter Levinsohn President, Fox Interactive Media

9. Marissa Mayer Vice president for search products & user experience, Google

10. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen Founders, YouTube

11. Kevin J. Martin Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

12. Brad Templeton Chairman of the board, Electronic Frontier Foundation

13. Henry Chon CEO, Cyworld

14. Shana Fisher Senior vice president for strategy and M&A, IAC/InterActiveCorp

15. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis Founders, Skype and KaZaA

16. Matt Mullenweg Developer, WordPress blogging site and software

17. Philip Rosedale CEO, Linden Lab

18. Jon Lech Johansen Creator, DeCSS decryption program

19. Jerry Yang, David Filo, and Terry Semel Executives, Yahoo

20. Jack Ma COO, Alibaba.com

21. Brewster Kahle Director, Internet Archive

22. Ray Ozzie Chief software architect, Microsoft

23. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga Blogger, Daily Kos

24. Jeff Bezos
CEO, Amazon

25. Robert Scoble Vice president of media development, PodTech.net

25 more to go.. Let’s take a break

26. John Battelle Entrepreneur and chairman, Federated Media Publishing

27. Lawrence Lessig CEO, Creative Commons

28. Meg Whitman CEO, eBay

29. Ron Wyden U.S. Senator, Oregon

30. Michael Arrington Blogger/publisher, TechCrunch

31. Bruce Schneier Cryptographer

32. Kevin Rose Founder, Digg

33. David Farber
Founder, Interesting-People.org

34. John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff Authors, PowerLine

35. Vinton G. Cerf Chairman, ICANN Board of Directors, and vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google

36. Tim O’Reilly Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media

37. Drew Curtis Founder, Fark.com

38. Gabe Rivera Creator, Techmeme

Dave Winer Blogger and author of RSS 2.0

40. Mike Schroepfer Vice president of engineering, Mozilla

10 more..

41. Perez Hilton Hollywood blogger

42. Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, and Jessica Livingston Founders, Y Combinator

43. Mikko H. Hypponen Director of antivirus research, F-Secure

44. Rob Malda Founder, Slashdot.org

45. Nick Denton Founder, Gawker Media

46. Sir Tim Berners-Lee Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

47. Leo Laporte Creator, This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast

48. Mohammed and Omar Fadhil
Blogging voice of Iraq

49. Jesse James Garrett
President, Adaptive Path

50. Tila Tequila MySpace Personality

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Posted by hongkiat in Interesting , at 03.06.07

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melvin,foong March 6th, 2007

Bill Gates is deemed not important, because his only involvement on the internet, is to spread virus.
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Nosh March 6th, 2007

Steve Jobs = OVERRATED!
Tim Berners-Lee #46 ?? BOOOOO!!!
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