Here's who's shaping what you read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online.
Christopher Null, PC World, Mar 5, 2007 6:00 pm
Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but without the folks who create the Craigslists, MySpaces, and YouTubes of the world, much of the Web's potential would be lost among spam sites and other online detritus.
So who's making the biggest impact online? 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. We whittled the list down to the top 50--well, actually the top 62--people, but as you'll see, there are some you just can't separate. And don't despair: Get a little more traffic on your Web site, and you may show up on the list next year.
Important People #1 through #5
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
Important People #6 through #10
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
Important People #11 through #15
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
Important People #16 through #20
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
Important People #21 through #25
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
Important People #26 through #30
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
Important People #31 through #35
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
Important People #36 through #40
36. Tim O'Reilly - Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
37. Drew Curtis - Founder, Fark.com
38. Gabe Rivera - Creator, Techmeme
39. Dave Winer - Blogger and author of RSS 2.0
40. Mike Schroepfer - Vice president of engineering, Mozilla
Important People #41 through #45
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
Important People #46 through #50
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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