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

Comments

  1. melvin,foong March 6th, 2007

    Bill Gates is deemed not important, because his only involvement on the internet, is to spread virus.

    Reply

  2. Nosh March 6th, 2007

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

    Reply

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