Efterhånden som nettet bliver mainstream, dukker en helt ny gruppe af berømtheder op. De 100 personer, du finder nedenfor, former internettets^(Internet) fremtid (de fleste til det bedre, nogle til det værre...), og som en konsekvens er de lige i søgelyset.

Vi samlede omkring 200 potentielle navne og forespurgte dem på Google for at se, hvor mange resultater de ville generere. Der blev foretaget nogle mindre justeringer, og de 100 navne med det højeste antal resultater blev profileret (som du kan se er det ikke vores skyld, at Chris Crocker endte på 6. pladsen!)

Berømtheder, der blev berømte før eksplosionen af ​​nettet^(Web) , var ikke inkluderet. Derfor^(Hence) vil du ikke finde personer som Steve Jobs eller Bill Gates , på trods af vores erkendelse af, at de også påvirker internettet^(Internet) .

TechCults top 100 webberømtheder^{(TechCult’s Top 100 Web Celebrities)}

100. Alex Tew

College kan være dyrt, og studerende kan være utroligt fantasifulde; sæt de to sammen, og du vil finde på nogle ret usædvanlige metoder til at tjene undervisningspenge.

Det er præcis, hvad Alex Tew gjorde for at skabe sit  Million Dollar Homepage -  projekt. Fra august 2005 begyndte Tew at sælge blokke af pixels på sin side. Købere kunne bruge pladsen til annoncering eller hvad de måtte ønske. Rygtet^(Word) om projektet spredte sig, og snart fik Tew dækning i almindelige magasiner.

Efter en måned havde han solgt plads for over 150.000 dollars, og i januar^(January) 2006 havde han overskredet en million dollars.

99. David Sifry

David Sifry er først og fremmest kendt for at have grundlagt  Technorati , en søgemaskine, der indekserer over 100 millioner blogs (112,8 millioner blogs og 250 millioner stykker taggede sociale medier pr . 22.^{(May 22)} maj 2008).

Derudover sporer Technorati blogtrafik og linkstatistik, og dets rangordningssystem kan betyde pralerettigheder for websteder (kaldet Technorati Top 100 ).

Silfry er en Open Source - fortaler og er en hyppig taler om emnerne webteknologi, trådløs og blogging. Derudover er han ofte interviewet eller citeret i tech- og forretningsmagasiner, herunder The Guardian og The Economist .

98. Richard MacManus

Richard MacManus er grundlæggeren af  Read/WriteWeb , en blog om teknologiproblemer og Web 2.0- udviklinger, der er blevet vurderet som en af ​​verdens 50 mest populære blogs (af Technorati ).

Bloggen genererer også over 600.000 sidevisninger hver måned og har omkring 220.000 RSS - abonnenter.

Virkningen af ​​MacManus' skrivning og Read/WriteWeb er blevet anerkendt af PC Magazine og andre almindelige publikationer.

Før sin bloggerkarriere var MacManus forsker, analytiker og forfatter, og skrev for ZDNet ; han rådgiver stadig for forskellige teknologivirksomheder, primært dem med base i Silicon Valley .

97. Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwoods blog  CodingHorror.com  er et populært valg for dem, der er interesseret i webudvikling og softwareprogrammering generelt. Atwoods hjemmeside er fuld af tips og kommentarer til, hvordan man  ikke^(not)  kan kode, samt programmeringsråd.

Online siden 2004 har Atwood et dedikeret publikum (over 60.000 RSS -abonnenter) og betydelig trafik på webstedet, anslået til over en halv million unikke besøgende om måneden.

Jeff Atwood er for nylig gået sammen med Joel  On Software  Spolsky for at skabe et nyt programmeringsressource-websted,  stackoverflow.com , som i øjeblikket er under udvikling.

96. Amanda Congdon

Amanda Congdon er bedst kendt som den populære anker, co-producer og medejer af  Rocketboom , en af ​​de mest sete videoblogs på nettet. Hun blev med showet fra 2004 til 2006.

Begyndende med 700 seere, da hun blev ansat af grundlæggeren Andrew Michael Baron , voksede Congdon Rocketbooms^(Rocketboom) publikum for de tre minutters videoklip til rapporterede 130.000 seere om dagen. Congdon forlod Rocketboom i juli^(July) 2006 under kontroversielle omstændigheder: hun sagde, at hun var blevet fyret af Baron , mens Baron 's hævdede, at hun rejste for at få showbiz-muligheder.

Congdon har siden lavet en række gæsteoptrædener i tv-shows og deltaget i andre webbaserede projekter, herunder bloggen AmandaAcrossAmerica.com . Hun blogger og viser sine nuværende projekter på  AmandaCongdon.com .

95. Drew Curtis

Fark.com , der blev startet i 1999 af Drew Curtis , er et websted, der samler sociale nyheder. Fark- læsere indsender links til interessante (og/eller kontroversielle) emner fra andre websteder, og Fark - administratorer vælger, om de vil promovere disse til Fark.com- forsiden; emnerne er mærket, så de kan opdeles i relaterede fora.

Læsere kommenterer historierne, og trafikken dirigeret til linkede sider fra Fark.com- forsiden har været kendt for at crashe disse websteders servere på grund af overdreven belastning; en effekt kendt som at være "farket".

Curtis' første bog,  It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries To Pass Off Crap As News  blev udgivet i 2007.

94. Bob Parsons

Bob Parsons' oprindelige involvering i teknologiområdet var som skaberen af ​​MoneyCounts, en hjemmeregnskabssoftwarepakke, som han udgav i 1984. Efter at have diversificeret sig til religiøs software (bibelsøgning ,^{(Bible-searching)} kristen multimedieklip^(Christian) osv.), solgte han sit firma til Intuit i 1994.

Parsons vendte sig mod internettet^(Internet) og grundlagde i 1997 Go Daddy , en internetregistrator^(Internet) og webhostingfirma. Med tre registratorer under virksomhedens paraply, inklusive  GoDaddy.com , er Go Daddy langt den dominerende aktør i branchen og den største ICANN-akkrediterede registrator.

Go Daddy er blevet en spiller i den igangværende udvikling af internetpolitikker^(Internet) , til det punkt at blive involveret i politisk lobbyisme med den amerikanske regering.

93. Judson Laipply

En komiker og motiverende taler, Judson Laipply postede en video på YouTube i 2006, på udkig efter hans femten minutters berømmelse på internettet .^(Internet)

Som det viste sig, blev den video,  The Evolution of Dance , videresendt overalt og blev den mest populære video på YouTube: mest set gennem tiderne og mest kommenterede nogensinde. I maj^(May) 2008 er den blevet set næsten 86 millioner gange, og næsten 160.000 mennesker har efterladt kommentarer. Det har selvfølgelig også affødt en række imitatorer og opsendelser.

Laipply holder videoen i centrum på sit websted,  The Evolution of Dance , som er blevet en kommerciel portal, der tilbyder EOD - skjorter og motiverende talebookinger af Laipply .

92. Mitchell Baker

Mitchell Bakers titel i  Mozilla Foundation  er ret unik: Chief Lizard Wrangler . Oversat skulle det betyde formand^{(Chairperson)} . Hun driver forretningssiden af ​​både Mozilla Foundation og Mozilla Corporation (datterselskabet), og hun er også ansvarlig for den vision, som organisationen forfølger.

Tilbage i 1994 var Baker allerede involveret i Netscape Communications , hvor hun var ansvarlig for afdelingen for beskyttelse af intellektuel ejendom.

I lyset af den enorme betydning, som Mozilla Foundation har fået i de senere år, blev Baker inkluderet i Time's 100 vigtigste personer på verdenslisten (2005). Du kan læse mere om hendes meninger og Mozillas interne^(Mozilla) aktiviteter på hendes  personlige blog^{(personal blog)} .

91. Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder er en person, der med succes spiller i både trykte og webmedier, udover at være en talentfuld illustrator.

Frauenfelder er nok bedst kendt på nettet som medstifter af bloggen  Boing Boing , baseret på magasinet bOING bOING, som han også var med til at stifte. Han har været trykt klummeskribent med en bred vifte af publikationer, herunder Playboy , The New York Times Magazine og Wired (hvor han var redaktør i 5 år).

Han er i øjeblikket chefredaktør^{(Editor-In-Chief)} for magasinet Make . Frauenfelder skrev og illustrerede en videnskabelig bog rettet mod børn kaldet  Den gale professor^{(The Mad Professor)} og udgav for nylig bogen  Rule The Web: How To Do Anything And Everything on the Internet- Better, Faster, Easier .

90. Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy er to-ugentlig klummeskribent for magasinet Business Week og medforfatter af magasinets Kevin Rose - forsidehistorie. Hun er også medvært for Yahoos Tech Ticker -webshow.

Lacy kan være lidt af et mål – hendes flotte udseende har vakt modvilje på nogle fronter, på trods af ti års rapportering om teknologiindustrien – og på SXSW -konferencen i 2008 kom tingene til hoved, da publikum vendte sig mod hende, mens hun interviewede FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg på scenen.

Lacys bog  Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0  blev udgivet i maj^(May) 2008. Hun blogger jævnligt på  Sarah Lacy.com .

89. Jason Kottke

Jason Kottke er en mangeårig blogger, "Bloggie" Lifetime Achievement-prisvinder og tidligere webdesigner. Kottkes designarbejde er blevet anerkendt i The New York Times og Forbes , og en skrifttype, han har designet (silketrykskrift) er blevet brugt af Volvo , MTV og Adobe .

Han begyndte at blogge i 1998 og blev ved med det, med en profil fra 2000 i New Yorker , der hjalp med at introducere ideen om blogging til den brede offentlighed. 2004 oplevede et hårdt problem, da Kottkes blog,  kottke.org , brød nyheden om Ken Jennings' tab af Jeopardy, inklusive spørgsmålet, han svarede forkert på – netværket var ikke underholdt. I 2005 eksperimenterede Kottke med at bede læserne om at give donationer for at støtte sin blog, og rapporterede, at 1450 mikro-mæcener havde bidraget med næsten 40.000 $.

88. Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin er en blogger og lidt af en teknologi- og digitalkulturmediepersonlighed, der hyppigt optræder på internetberømthedslister^(Internet) .

Hun har den højt profilerede stilling som medredaktør på bloggen  Boing Boing  og bidrager med materiale til Wired , wired.com, Make , Popular Science , Playboy og redaktionelle artikler for New York Times og Los Angeles Times .

Hun er korrespondent for NPR -radioshowet Day to Day og har været gæsteoptrædende som teknologikommentator på ABC , CNN , Fox , G4TechTV og BBC5 radio. Jardin optræder også som medvært for Boing Boings daglige webbaserede videoshow BoingBoingtv^{(BoingBoingtv)} .

87. Ryan Block

Som chefredaktør^{(Editor-in-Chief)} for teknologibloggen  Engadget har Ryan Block betydelig indflydelse på, hvordan computer, hjemmeelektronik og teknologirelaterede produkter generelt modtages. For at få et perspektiv på, hvor meget indflydelse en førende teknologiblog kan have, så tænk på, at et Engadget - indlæg fra Block fra 2007 om en mulig iPhone- og OSX - udgivelsesforsinkelse, baseret på en falsk Apple -e-mail, sænkede Apples^(Apple) aktiekurs med 2,2 % inden for få minutter.

Block er en hyppig gæst på tech-relaterede shows, herunder optrædener på Cranky Geeks , CNET , Attack of the Show og andre. Block er i øjeblikket involveret i et forhold med den populære webmediepersonlighed Veronica Belmont , en kendsgerning, som han ofte nævner på sin personlige  blog .

86. Markos Moulitsas

Markos "kos" Moulitsas er forfatter og blogger. Han grundlagde og er hovedforfatter af den velkendte politiske kommentarblog  Daily Kos . Med et medlemskab på over 125.000 registrerede læsere og indlæg fra fremtrædende demokratiske politiske personer, herunder Jimmy Carter , John Kerry og Nancy Pelosi , tiltrækker Daily Kos i øjeblikket 600.000 daglige besøgende.

Moulitsas parlayerede^(Moulitsas) sin fremtrædende plads på nettet i en regulær Newsweek -spalte og har været medforfatter til bogen  Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics . Han placerede sig på tredjepladsen på en Forbes liste over webberømtheder og rangerede som nummer 26 på en PC Magazine- liste over de vigtigste personer på nettet^(Web) .

85. Janus Friis

Janus Friis er en selvskreven "disruptiv internet - iværksætter " og er medstifter (sammen med Niklas Zennstrom ) af Peer-to-Peer ( P2P ) KaZaA -netværket og fortsatte sammen med Zennstrom med at grundlægge internettelefoniselskabet ^(Internet)Skype , investeringsselskab . Atomico og P2P video distributionssystem Joost .

Sammen med Zennstrom anses Friis for at stå bag mange af de mest betydningsfulde teknologiske skift på internettet^(Internet) og er blevet navngivet på lister over vigtige bidragydere udarbejdet af cnn.com og Time magazine.

Friis blogger af og til på  janusfriis.net  og bliver hyppigt profileret i både online og trykte medier.

84. Jack Ma

Jack Ma var en af ​​de første kinesere, der indså internettets^(Web) potentiale . Så snart det lykkedes ham at få fat i en internetforbindelse^(Internet) , begyndte han at bygge hjemmesider for kinesiske virksomheder.

I 1999 slog han et hjem og grundlagde  Alibaba.com . Siden fungerer som en business-to-business-markedsplads, og den fik succes med at forbinde udenlandske virksomheder med kinesiske. Websitets popularitet voksede så meget, at Yahoo! i 2005! besluttede at købe 40 % af det og tilbyde i bytte 1 milliard USD plus aktiverne i Yahoo! Kina^(China) .

I november 2007 blev Alibaba.com noteret på børsen i Hong Kong^{(Hong Kong Stock Exchange)} og rejste i alt 1,5 milliarder USD. Det var den næststørste børsnotering for en internetvirksomhed^(Internet) , efter Google .

83. Bram Cohen

Filmindustrien så den kaos, som Napster og andre delingsnetværk anrettede i musikbranchen og indså, at det samme kunne ske for dem, når teknologi og båndbredde indhentede de meget større videofilstørrelser. Bram Cohen  var med til at stifte BitTorrent i 2002, og spillet var i gang.

Cohens BitTorrent - protokol letter distributionen af ​​store filer ved at opdele dem i mindre stykker, hvor flere modtagere og delere alle bytter filbits i stedet for en enkelt værtsserver, der distribuerer en hel fil. Fra et ophavsretshåndhævelsesperspektiv betyder BitTorrent , at sporing og nedlukning af en enkelt filuploader har ringe eller ingen indflydelse på filtilgængeligheden.

82. Philip Rosedale

Philip Rosedale (også kendt under hans Second Life -avatars navn Philip Linden ) er grundlægger og administrerende direktør^(CEO) for  Linden Lab , skaberen af ​​den virtuelle verden Second Life . Second Life hævder at have over 2 millioner abonnenter og er blevet et vigtigt kontaktpunkt for virkelige personligheder og organisationer, der etablerer en Second Life - tilstedeværelse for at interagere med abonnenter.

Med Second lifes løbske succes er Rosedales bidrag til onlinesamfundet blevet noteret i Business 2.0 , USA Today og Time magazine. Rosedales karriere, før han grundlagde Linden Labs , omfatter at fungere som Vice President og CTO hos RealNetworks , hvor han lancerede en række computermedieprodukter, herunder RealVideo .

81. Steve Pavlina

Grundlæggeren, administrerende direktør^(CEO) og softwareudvikler for det prisvindende shareware-spilfirma Dexterity Software , Steve Pavlina var oprindeligt kendt for at udvikle engagerende computerspil og for sit arbejde på vegne af Association of Shareware Professionals ( ASP ).

I 2006 skiftede Pavlina fra spiludvikling til sin blog om personlig udvikling,  StevePavlina.com  . På sit websted beskriver Pavlina sig selv som "det måske mest intenst vækstorienterede individ, du nogensinde vil møde," og hævder, at hans websted er verdens mest populære websted for personlig udvikling med over 1,8 millioner besøgende om måneden. I et interview fra 2007 bemærker Pavlina , at hans blogging genererer næsten $40.000 om måneden i indtjening.^(Pavlina)

80. Gina Trapani

Gina Trapani er en teknisk forfatter, forfatter og freelance webudvikler. Hendes mest synlige rolle er som hovedredaktør^{(Lead Editor)} for Gawker Medias personlige produktivitetsblog  Lifehacker , en rolle, der også har affødt bøgerne U pgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better  and L ifehacker: 88 Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day .

Lifehacker er en af ​​de mest populære blogs på nettet, med dens læserskare i 2006 anslået til 7 millioner sidevisninger om måneden og over 100.000 RSS - abonnenter; Lifehacker har modtaget anerkendelser fra CNET , Wired , Time og andre.

Artikler skrevet af Trapani er dukket op i fremtrædende publikationer, herunder Wired , Popular Science , PC World og MacWorld , og hun er blevet profileret af folk som The Wall Street Journal .

79. Anil Dash

En tidlig blogger, Anil Dash er vicepræsident^{(Vice President)} og chefevangelist^{(Chief Evangelist)} for bloggingsoftwaregiganten Six Apart . Denne stilling involverer at hjælpe med at popularisere blogging gennem optrædener ved forskellige begivenheder og promovere Six Apart- produkter, herunder Movable Type og TypePad .

Dash fik en vis offentlig opmærksomhed ved at vinde en konkurrence i 2004 om at indtage topplaceringen i en Google-søgning^{(Google search)} efter udtrykket "nigritude ultramarine"; mens mange konkurrenter tyede til ekstreme søgeoptimeringsmetoder, postede Dash blot et blogindlæg om emnet og bad læserne om at linke til hans indlæg. Hans forfatterskab om webkultur har været omtalt i Wired og Washington Post , og han har optrådt som gæst i en række forskellige shows. Anil Dash blogger på  dashes.com .

78. Brad Fitzpatrick

En softwareingeniør, Fitzpatrick (eller bradfitz) er bedst kendt som skaberen af ​​LiveJournal , et virtuelt bloggende fællesskab med tilhørende Open Source -serversoftware; en del af hans Danga Interactive -firma, som han solgte til blogsoftwarefirmaet Six Apart i 2005.

Fitzpatrick overtog stillingen som chefarkitekt^{(Chief Architect)} hos Six Apart , men forlod virksomheden i 2007 for en stilling hos Google . Fitzpatrick er tilhænger af Open Source - bevægelsen og er ansvarlig for udviklingen af ​​andre projekter, herunder MogileFS , Djabberd og Perlbal . Fitzpatricks^{(Fitzpatrick)} websted  bradfitz.com  fungerer som et centralt omdrejningspunkt for hans tilstedeværelse på nettet, herunder FaceBook , MySpace og Twitter - sider.

77. Veronica Belmont

Veronica Belmont  er journalist, mediepersonlighed og vært eller medvært for en række podcasts, shows og videoer med teknologibranche-tema. Hun blev også udnævnt til en liste over de mest sexede nørder^{(Sexiest Geek)} .

Belmont sluttede sig oprindeligt til CNET som producer og lydtekniker, men voksede hurtigt ud over sin baggrundsrolle og begyndte at optræde og var til sidst medvært for CNET - podcasts, herunder MP3 Insider og CRAVE Gadget Blog . Hun forlod CNET til Mahalo i 2007 og var vært for sit eget videoshow, Malaho Daily .

I 2008 forlod hun Malaho til Revision3 , hvor hun nu er medvært for Tekzilla . Udover hendes fuldtidskoncerter, har Belmont været i høj efterspørgsel som gæst i andre shows og podcasts, og har optrådt dusinvis af optrædener i løbet af de sidste mange år.

76. Matt Mullenweg

En af de personer, der stille og roligt har aktiveret og styrket tilstedeværelsen af ​​blogging siden 2002, Matt Mullenweg har været involveret i et væld af bloggingtjenester, værktøjer og softwarevirksomheder og har været i spidsen for en kamp for at dæmme op for splogs (computergenereret blogkommentarer, der linker til falske reklameblogs).

Han var medstifter af  WordPress , The Global Multimedia Protocols Group , Akismet (en splog-blokerende tjeneste), arbejdede for CNET og var senest medstifter af virksomheden Automattic . Mullenweg blev kåret til PC World's 50 Most Important People on the Web liste i 2007. Hans blog kan læses  på ma.tt.

75. Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse har bevist, at bloggere kan få succes ikke kun fra et læserperspektiv, men også økonomisk. ProBlogger  og  Digital Photography School , hans digitale fotograferingsside, anslås at generere over 50.000 sidevisninger om dagen mellem dem og generere mere end 20.000 USD om måneden i annonceindtægter.

ProBlogger , som tilbyder blogging tips og råd, bliver ofte nævnt som en af ​​nettets topblogs. Rowse skitserede sine metoder som medforfatter til bogen  ProBlogger: Secrets For Blogging Your Way To A Six-Figure Income , samt underviste i et kursus med lignende tema. Rowse er også medstifter og VP for Blogger Training for blog-netværket b5media.

74. Ze Frank

Hosea Jan Frank (aka Ze Frank ), er performancekunstner, berømt for sin årelange, The Show With Ze Frank , daglige videoblog. Frank fik anerkendelse i 2001, da " How To Dance Properly ", skabt som en festinvitation til sine venner, blev en løbsk viral video, der genererede millioner af hits.

Showet med Ze ^(Show)Frank^{(Ze Frank)} modtog tusindvis af besøgende dagligt og indeholdt et fredagssegment^(Friday) , hvor Frank udførte rutiner skrevet af seere via en wiki. Frank blev anerkendt med en "webby"-pris i 2002 og anerkendelse for The Show på ^(Show)SXSW - festivalen i 2007 .

Han har modtaget dækning i de almindelige medier og flere invitationer til at tale på TED - konferencen. Franks blog,  zefrank.com ,  er stadig et populært websted for hans humoristiske kommentarer og imponerende samling af links til onlinespil, videoer og tidsspildere.

73. Merlin Mann

Forfatter^(Writer) og produktivitetsguru Merlin Mann har skåret en niche for sig selv som en motiverende "produktivitet"-taler og en uddeler af råd gennem sit populære  43 Folders-  websted.

Med fokus på personlig produktivitet og "life hacks", trækker 43 Folders anslået 2,5 millioner unikke besøgende om året, og dets RSS - feed downloades 100.000 gange dagligt. Mann har skrevet artikler til teknologi- og kulturpublikationer, herunder Make , Wired , MacWorld og Popular Science og bidrager til produktivitet og Mac-orienterede podcasts.

Hans produktivitetsforedrag appellerer til teknologiskaren , og han har været en fremhævet taler og indflydelsesrige virksomheder som Apple , Yahoo! og Google . (Foto af  Graham )

72. John C. Dvorak

John Dvorak er sandsynligvis ansvarlig for at anstifte flere Mac vs. Windows flammekrige end nogen anden ekspert takket være mange års inflammatoriske og generelt anti- Mac indlæg. Dvorak har været en kraft inden for teknologi og computerkommentarer i årtier, herunder stints som redaktør hos Infoworld ; kolonner med Forbes , MacUser , PC World ; og hans nuværende klumme på  PC Magazine . Han har også skrevet et dusin bøger og skrevet for adskillige aviser.

Hans personlige  blog  rammer stadig teknologi-temaer, men han samler også op om popkultur og historier af almen interesse. Udover sine skrivekoncerter bidrager Dvorak til en række videopodcasts, herunder Cranky Geeks og This Week in Tech (som kræver 500.000 lyttere), var vært for Silicon Spin på TechTV og er en hyppig teknologikommentator på CNBC .

71. Steve Rubel

Steve Rubel er en PR^(Relations) -ekspert (eller "digital marketingmedarbejder", som han beskriver sig selv) og en evangelist for at bruge virksomhedsblogs som et effektivt PR-medium. Hans egen blog,  Micro Persuasion , blev lanceret i 2004 og byder på tanker og råd om teknologiens indflydelse på forretning, kultur, medier og markedsføring.

Rubel fik en vis offentlig opmærksomhed med Wal-Marting Across America- bloggen, som fulgte et par, der kørte en autocamper på tværs af USA og parkerede køretøjet natten over på Wal-Mart- parkeringspladser. Rubel er i øjeblikket SVP , Director of Insights for Edelman Digital , og hans succesfulde udnyttelse af coporate blogging har ført til anerkendelse i teknologi og forretningsrelaterede medier, herunder Forbes.com , PC Magazine og Media Magazine .

70. Nick Denton

I blogsfæren er der et væld af personlige blogs, virksomhedsblogs, og der er blogs, der tilhører en modermediegruppe. Gawker Media , grundlagt og ejet af Nick Denton , er en af ​​disse paraplyorganisationer for onlinemedier, og dens stald af blogs omfatter nogle af de mest populære på nettet: Gizmodo , io9, Consumerist , Lifehacker og Gawker , blandt andre.

Denton overtog som administrerende redaktør^{(Managing Editor)} for flagskibsbloggen  Gawker.com  i 2008, efter et omtumlet år, hvor flere redaktører forlod. Gawker , som er en blog med fokus på underholdning og kultur i New York , har også oplevet kontroverser over dens " Gawker Stalker"-funktion, en GoogleMaps - mashup, der plotter berømthedernes placering, som de bliver opdaget og rapporteret af Gawker- læsere.

69. Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark gav mange publikationer en knock-out punch med lanceringen af ​​hans  Craigslist  -websted. Mens traditionelle aviser er afhængige af klassificeret annoncering som en vigtig indtægtskilde, giver Craiglist brugere mulighed for at sende annoncer gratis og kun opkræver betaling for jobopslag.

Med en tilstedeværelse i de fleste større byer i USA og betydelig vækst på verdensplan, er Craigslist blevet markedsleder inden for klassificeret annoncering og et af de mest trafikerede websteder i verden (angiveligt 9 milliarder sidevisninger pr. måned). eBay købte en andel i Craigslist i 2004, men de to selskaber indledte retssager mod hinanden i 2008 og handlede med anklager om unfair konkurrence. Newark er en fortaler for at holde webtjenester gratis, forbliver aktiv i den daglige drift af Craigslist og  blogger^(blogs)  regelmæssigt.

68. Niklas Zennstrøm^{(68. Niklas Zennstrom)}

Niklas Zennstrom er førende inden for Peer-to-Peer ( P2P ) webteknologier. Hans første store satsning var som medstifter af KaZaA (eller kaazaa) netværket^(Network) , en teknologi, som havde betydelig indflydelse på at muliggøre fildelingen (især af MP3'er^(MP3s) ), der var blevet en af ​​internettets store ting; virksomheden tiltrak sin rimelige andel af ophavsretsrelaterede retssager.

Zennstrom er også medstifter af internettelefoniselskabet ^(Internet)Skype , som blev købt i 2005 for over 2,5 milliarder dollars af eBay. Zennstrom er nu involveret i sin seneste start-up,  Joost , et reklameunderstøttet P2P -videodistributionssystem, som Zennstrom har forhandlet indholdsaftaler for med adskillige underholdningsselskaber, herunder MTV , Paramount , CBS og National Hockey League .

67. Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman var præsident^(President) og administrerende direktør^(CEO) for  eBay  fra marts 1998^{(March 1998)} til marts 2008^{(March 2008)} . Under hendes kommando lykkedes det online-auktionswebstedet at bevare sin lederskab på trods af angreb fra andre internetvirksomheder^(Internet) som Amazon og Yahoo !.

Whitman bidrog også til det vellykkede opkøb af PayPal i 2003 og til det noget succesrige opkøb af Skype i 2005.

Hendes nettoværdi er anslået til over 1 milliard US$, og hun kom på listen over Time's 100 vigtigste personer i flere år.

66. Steve Gibson

Internettet er fyldt med skyggefigurer^(Internet) , som konstant tester sårbarheden af ​​websteder og data. Steve Gibson  er ekspert i disse mennesker, systemhackere og softwarecrackere. Han er medvirkende redaktør for magasinet InfoWorld og grundlægger af Gibson Research Corporation ( GRC ), et softwareudviklingsfirma, der udvikler specialiserede værktøjer til datagendannelse^{(software development firm that develops specialized tools for data recovery)} og internetsikkerhed.

Gibsons OptOut - software, udgivet i 2000, var et af de første programmer til fjernelse af adware^{(adware removal)} . Han har optrådt hyppigt på teknologibaserede podcasts og tv-shows med Leo Laporte , herunder medvært for Security Now! podcast. Nogle af Gibsons^(Gibson) påstande om computer- og systemsikkerhedssårbarheder er blevet bagatelliseret af andre eksperter, med lejlighedsvise beskyldninger om, at Gibson kan have oppustet deres betydning.

65. Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman var på webscenen tidligt i spillet og har skrevet om webdesign siden 1995, især på  A List Apart .

Zeldman var en tidlig fortaler for en standardbaseret tilgang på tværs af browsere til webdesign og var gennem Web Standards Project (som han var med til at stifte) med til at presse Microsoft og Netscape til at understøtte standarder i deres browsere. Hans foredrag og bøger har været med til at øge bevidstheden om standarder og til at uddanne en generation af webdesignere, hvilket bidrager til en forbedret web-browsing-oplevelse for alle.

Zeldmans blog,  The Daily Report  , er en god læsning for hans kommentarer om webdesign og teknologiemner.

64. Mitch Kapor

Som medstifter, præsident^(President) og administrerende direktør^(CEO) for Lotus Development Corp. , var Mitchell Kapor en af ​​de personer, der hjalp med at gøre den personlige computer til en integreret del af forretningskontoret.

I 1983 skabte han Lotus 1-2-3 , den dominerende regnearkssoftware, der hurtigt gjorde Lotus til en^{(Lotus one)} af ​​verdens største softwarevirksomheder. Kapors indflydelsessfære spredte sig til internettet^(Internet) . Han var medstifter af digital right organisation, Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ), og fungerede som dens formand^(Chairman) indtil 1994.

Han har været formand for Mozilla Foundation og tilhører Advisory Board for Wikipedia Foundation . Hans  websted^{(web site)}  indeholder lister over hans aktuelle projekter samt et arkiv over hans artikler og publikationer; han lukkede sin blog ned i 2006.

63. Steve Case

Steve Case er en webpioner og filantrop. Case var medstifter, bestyrelsesformand^(Chairman) og administrerende direktør^(CEO) for America Online ( AOL ), engang verdens største internetvirksomhed^(Internet) og porten til e-mail og webadgang, der blev brugt af millioner af abonnenter. Efter at AOL fusionerede med Time Warner i 2001, blev Chase formand for det nye selskab AOL Time Warner , og trådte tilbage i 2003.

Fusionen kom på højden af ​​dot-com-nedsmeltningen samt svindende AOL - indflydelse og er generelt blevet betragtet som en skuffelse. Case har vendt meget af sin opmærksomhed mod filantropiske formål gennem sin  Case Foundation  -organisation, selvom hans opstart fra 2005, Revolution (primært sundhedspleje og wellness-fokuseret), viser, at han stadig er aktiv i erhvervslivet.

62. Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr er en forfatter og lærd, der har rejst bølger i teknologi- og Web 2.0- verdenen med sin skarpe kritik; en Wired^(Wired) -artikel fra 2007 omtalte ham som "high tech's Captain Buzzkill ."

Carr bruger sin blog  Rough Type  til at nå ud til et bredt publikum, hvor han skriver sine tanker om it-service som en standardiseret vare, risikoen for, at frivillige Web 2.0- indsatser ( Wikipedia er et yndet mål) erstatter højere kvalitet, "professionelle" versioner og hans frygt af Googles indflydelse på fremtidens kultur.

En tidligere administrerende redaktør^{(Executive Editor)} hos The Harvard Business Review , Carrs bøger inkluderer  Does IT Matter? Informationsteknologi og tæring af konkurrencefordele^{(Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage)}  og  The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google .

61. Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer  er Vice President for Search Product & User Experience hos Google , Inc. Hun har ledet produktledelsesgruppen gennem en række nøgleproduktudgivelser, herunder Google Earth og Google Desktop , og det er hendes ansvar at beslutte, hvilke inkuberingsprojekter der skal gjort opmærksom på Googles^(Google) grundlæggere, og når produkter er klar til offentlig introduktion.

Mayer plejer at være en af ​​Googles mest synlige ledere, da produktlanceringer typisk involverer optrædener ved konferencer og medieinterviews. En af Googles første 20 ansatte og deres første kvindelige softwareingeniør, Mayer er blevet profileret i publikationer som Red Herring , Business Week , Fortune og Business 2.0 .

60. Frank Warren

Frank Warrens krav på berømmelse er weblog-fænomenet  PostSecret . Warren startede sit online PostSecret- projekt som en eksperimentel blog, der bad læserne om at sende et postkort ind, som de selv skulle dekorere på den ene side, og skrive en hemmelighed, de aldrig tidligere har afsløret, på den anden side. Warren viste derefter postkortene.

PostSecret var unik ved, at det ikke var en blog i traditionel forstand, men mere et socialt eksperiment/viralt kunstprojekt. Kommentarer blev ikke engang aktiveret på bloggen før to år efter den blev lanceret. Succesen med PostSecret bragte det medieopmærksomhed, en samling af "bloggies" i 2006 og 2007 Weblog Awards og førte til udgivelsen af ​​fire relaterede bøger, herunder A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book , udgivet i 2007.

59. Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky er en forfatter, professor og konsulent, der har specialiseret sig i de sociale og økonomiske konsekvenser af internetteknologier^(Internet) , herunder fremkomsten af ​​decentraliserede (f.eks. trådløse) tjenester. Shirkys spalter om World Wide Web er dukket op i en lang række indflydelsesrige publikationer, herunder The Wall Street Journal , Wired , Computerworld og The Harvard Business Review .

Han er en hyppig interviewperson og konferencetaler om webkultur og var gæst i The Colbert Report . Shirky.com , hans blog, er en kilde til hyppige indlæg om emner af interesse, herunder P2P (peer to peer), Open Source og sociale netværk. Shirkys seneste bog, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organisations^{(Organizations)} blev udgivet i 2008.

58. Joi Ito

Joi Ito er en kendt teknologiskøjteskribent, venturekapitalist og en indflydelsesrig fortaler for sociale netværksteknologier. Baseret i Japan har Ito skrevet for en lang række publikationer, herunder New York Times , Mac World Japan og Wired . Som venturekapitalist var han en investor i nye sociale netværks- og bloggingsider, herunder Flickr , Six Apart , Technorati og SocialText .

Ito er i øjeblikket administrerende ^(Ito)direktør^(Directors) for Creative Commons og har siddet i bestyrelsen^(Board) for andre styrende organer, herunder ICANN , Mozilla Foundation og Open Source Initiative ( OSI ). En aktiv deltager i Web 2.0- kulturen, Ito er en tilstedeværelse på mange sociale netværkssider samt poster regelmæssigt på sin blog på  joi.ito.com .

57. Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky startede sin programmeringskarriere hos Microsoft og forlod i 2000 for at være med til at grundlægge Fog Creek Software (producent af FogBugz ), en virksomhed, der fokuserede lige så meget på at sikre, at dets aktiviteter forbliver fokuseret på softwareudvikling frem for markedsføringsdomineret, som det gjorde på vækst. .

Virksomheden forbliver succesfuld, og Spolsky krediterer dette for at holde Softcreek en virksomhed, der er attraktiv for softwareudviklere. Spolskys meninger om softwareudvikling og ledelse (eller fejlstyring) af software- og teknologivirksomheder på hans blog  joelonsoftware  ramte en nerve hos softwareingeniører og ansatte i teknologifokuserede virksomheder verden over, og de har gjort hans indlæg til et must-read.

Han har også skrevet en håndfuld bøger, herunder Smart og Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent .

56. David Filo

David Filo var med til at stifte  Yahoo! i 1995 med partneren Jerry Wang . Mens Wang fortsatte med at blive administrerende direktør^(CEO) , er Filos ansvar som "Chief Yahoo " at lede den tekniske drift af Yahoo! websteder.

Filos teams leverer en stor del af Yahoo !s indtægter gennem innovationer såsom push-reklamer, bannerbjælker og knapannoncer samt har betydelig indflydelse på platform, infrastruktur og arkitektur.

Sammen med Yang er Filo stadig et af de mest offentlige ansigter i Yahoo! ledelsesteam, selvom han har en tendens til at holde sig i baggrunden, hvor det er muligt. Naturligvis er Filo som medstifter af Yahoo! milliardær, ofte profileret i teknologipublikationer og er efterspurgt til at tale ved web- og teknologikonferencer.

55. Chad Hurley

Chad Hurley er den grafiske designer og brugergrænsefladeekspert, der har designet PayPals logo.

Mens han arbejdede hos PayPal , mødte han adskillige medarbejdere ( Steve Chen og Jawed Karim ), og de tre af dem forlod til sidst for at danne online video-hosting-site YouTube . Som administrerende direktør for  YouTube var Hurley i høj grad ansvarlig for dets enorme vækst og overvågede salget af sin virksomhed til Google i 2006 for 1,65 milliarder dollars.

Hurley har været genstand for adskillige teknologihistorier, herunder historier i The Wall Street Journal , Newsweek , Time og Business 2.0 (som inkluderede ham på sin 50 People Who Matter Now-liste).

54. Marc Andreessen

Få mennesker kan hævde, at de har haft den indflydelse på den tidlige udvikling af world wide web, som Marc Andreessen har. Han var medforfatter til Mosaic , den første bredt udbredte webbrowser (og som blev brugt som grundlag for Microsofts Internet Explorer - browser).

Andreessen fortsatte med at grundlægge Netscape Communications , som promoverede sin egen Netscape Navigator -webbrowser. Selvom Netscape oprindeligt havde overtaget over Microsofts, vendte den situation til sidst med Microsofts Internet Explorer , der blev den dominerende browser, der bruges i dag.

Andreessen forlod Netscape kort efter, at det blev solgt til AOL i 1999 og investerer i øjeblikket i opstartsvirksomheder som Digg , Plaze^(Plazes) , Twitter og den sociale netværksplatform Ning , og skriver ofte om sine forehavender på sin  blog .

53. Brian Lam

Gizmodo , en del af Gawker Media -netværket, er en af ​​de bedste gadget-blogs på nettet; det er i øjeblikket involveret i en bitter rivalisering med Engadget , et konkurrerende websted skabt af en tidligere Gizmodo- redaktør. Brian Lam er chefredaktør hos Gizmodo , og han styrer det gennem en interessant overgang, der involverer kampen mellem cool og fra hip blogging versus old school journalistik.

Samtidig med at Gizmodo gør fremskridt i en kamp for at konkurrere mod traditionelle medier om adgang til interviewemner og messer, laver Gizmodo - medarbejdere stadig spøg (f.eks. slukker de udstillernes skærme via en fjernbetjening ved 2008 CES show), der resulterer i, at arrangører forbyder dem, og andre medier afviser dem som "rigtige" journalister.

52. Adam Curry

Adam Curry er en medie-crossover-stjerne, der først opnåede berømmelse som veejay på MTV , hvor han var vært for Headbangers Ball og Top 20 Countdown . Efter MTV flyttede han ind i det relativt nye område af web-entreprenørskab og var med til at stifte webstedet OnRamp , som blev solgt til THINK (med Curry fortsat som CTO ).

Hans største krav til berømmelse er at være blandt de første til at genkende potentialet i podcasting. Han producerer  Daily Source Code , en af ​​de første (og længst kørende med over 750 episoder) podcasts og er til tider blevet omtalt som "Podfather". Han fortsætter med at promovere sine podcasting-projekter gennem konferencer, radioshows og endda i den virtuelle verden Second Life .

51. Terry Semel

Terry Semel , en mangeårig direktør i Time Warner , forlod for at blive bestyrelsesformand^(Chairman) og administrerende direktør^(CEO) for  Yahoo!Inc. Hans embedsperiode hos Yahoo! blev af mange anset for at have skadet virksomheden, og han sagde op efter 6 år. 

Blandt lavpunkterne i Semels regeringstid var en mislykket forhandling om at købe Google , før det firma steg til markedsdominans, hans godkendelse til at frigive Yahoo! Brugeroplysninger^(User) til den kinesiske regering med det formål at retsforfølge dissidenter og en kompensationspakke, der gav ham godt over en halv milliard dollars over hans embedsperiode i en tid, hvor Yahoo! blev af investorerne opfattet som alvorligt underperformerede.

50. Steve Chen

Tal om at være på forkant, Steve Chen har formået at være involveret med tre af nettets hotteste virksomheder, lige da de begyndte at tage fart, en af ​​dem som medstifter. En medarbejder hos PayPal og Facebook , han og flere kolleger tog afsted for at starte onlinevideodelingssiden YouTube .

Chen er fortsat Chief Technology Officer for YouTube , som han og hans partnere solgte til Google i 2006 for 1,65 milliarder dollars. Som YouTube -medstifter har Chen ændret måden, medier distribueres og ses på, og blev navngivet til 2007 Time 100 List og Business 2.0 's liste over 50 People Who Matter Now.

49. John Chow

John Chow har formået at blive en af ​​de mest kontroversielle figurer inden for blogging, takket være hans hjemmeside Johnchow.com .

Chow havde sin første succes med TheTechZone.com , et massivt (10.000+ sider) websted for computerhardwareanmeldelse, som han hævder trækker 200.000 sidevisninger om dagen, men besluttede at forgrene sig og lancerede webstedet, hvor han begyndte at uddele råd om, hvordan man laver penge online

De fleste af Chows^(Chow) tips var relateret til annoncering, links og indtægtsgenerering af indhold, men han begyndte at bevæge sig ind i farligt territorium: gaming Google . Som svar på Chows^(Chow) fortaler for at overtræde deres retningslinjer, begravede Google bevidst Chows^(Chow) hjemmeside i deres sideplaceringer. I øjeblikket tjener han omkring 30.000 $ om måneden alene på sin blog.

48. John Battelle

Journalist og iværksætter John Battelle er administrerende direktør^(CEO) og formand^(Chairman) for Federated Media , online-annonceringsfirmaet, der repræsenterer så velkendte blogs og websteder som Boing Boing , Ars Technica og Dooce blandt dens store fold.

Battelles baggrund inkluderer at være medstifter af redaktør sammen med magasinet Wired , såvel som stints med magasinet MacUser og LA Times . Han er grundlægger og Executive Producer af Web 2.0- konferencen og bidrager stadig til sin egen blog, Searchblog , hvor han skriver om søgemaskinenyheder og om sine tanker om generelle web- og teknologibegivenheder. Hans vedvarende bidrag til iværksætteri og onlinemedier er blevet anerkendt af f.eks. Ernst and Young , Advertising Age og PCWorld .

47. Om Malik

Om Malik er en journalist og blogger kendt for sin dækning af teknologi- og computerområdet. Han startede som skribent for magasinet Forbes og senere Forbes.com , og var også seniorskribent for magasinet for nye teknologier/venturekapital, Red Herring , og tog derefter en stilling som seniorskribent for magasinet Business 2.0 .

Der, hvor Malik virkelig ramte radaren, var, da han startede sin Web 2.0-tema-blog  GigaOM under sin Giga Omni Media - paraply. GigaOM hævder læsertal i størrelsesordenen en halv million om måneden og er en af ​​verdens toprangerede blogs, med anerkendelse af dens indflydelse fra f.eks. PC Magazine , CNET og Technorati .

46. ​​John Markoff

En teknologijournalist med en lang baggrund i tech-skrivning ( Infoworld , BYTE , San Francisco Examiner , New York Times og andre), John Markoff  befandt sig i centrum af en mediestorm over hans kronik om computerhackeren Kevin Mitnick i 1990'erne.

Markhoff havde skrevet artikler om Mitnick , mens han var på flugt fra politiet, og var derefter medforfatter til bogen Takedown , som kritikere anklagede for at overdrive eller ligefrem opfinde dele af Mitnick -sagen. Idet han fortsætter med at dække computer- og teknologifelterne for NY Times , har Markhoff tjent noget ond vilje i bloggersamfundet med sin sammenligning af blogs med amatør-CB-radiofadsen fra halvfjerdserne.

45. Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan er endnu en af ​​de 'webberømtheder, som ikke er rigtig kendt for den brede offentlighed. Men som en søgemaskineguru er Sullivan velanset af industriens insidere, og hans mening er højt værdsat af webmastere, web-relaterede medier og ingeniører med virksomheder som Google .

Hans Search Engine Watch -websted blev en dominerende samling af søgemaskineoptimeringsteknikker, og han afholdt også en industrikonference kaldet Search Engine Watch .

I 2006 forlod Sullivan SEW (som han havde solgt i 2005) for at oprette en ny søgemaskinenyheds- og informationsside kaldet  Search Engine Land .

44. Jason Calacanis

Jason Calacanis  er en veteran i teknologibranchen. Hans udgivelse i midten af ​​halvfemserne,  The Silicon Alley Reporter , voksede fra et fotokopieret uddelingsark til en 300-siders beretning om begivenheder i Silicon Valley . Efter dot-com-nedbruddet vendte Calcanis sig til blogging, og med hjælp fra en investering fra Mark Cuban havde medstifter af Weblogs , Inc. Weblogs nogle meget populære blogs under sin paraply, inklusive Engadget .

Efter at have solgt weblogs til AOL Time Warner (forblev ombord som administrerende direktør^(CEO) ), blev Calcanis General Manager for Netscapes hjemmeside, hvor han rekrutterede topplakater til populære websteder som Reddit , Digg og Flickr . Hans seneste satsning, Malaho.com , er en kontroversiel "menneskedrevet" søgemaskine, der har skabt betydelig nysgerrighed såvel som et meget offentligt blog-post-angreb med Dave Winer .

43. Matt Drudge

En anden alumne fra Time Magazines 2006 "100 mest indflydelsesrige mennesker"-liste, Matt Drudge forvandlede en e-mailet berømthedssladderhobby til et webbaseret skandalesite, der krediteres med at hente traditionelle mediekilder om nogle af årtiets største historier. I 1998 var  The Drudge Report  det første nyhedsmedie, der brød Monica Lewinski -historien, en skandale, der plettede de sidste år af Bill Clintons præsidentperiode.

Siden da er The Drudge Report ofte citeret af andre medier og fortsætter med at poste berømthedsarrestationer, retsdokumenter, politisk dækning og breaking news-historier. Drudge Report^{(Drudge Report)} udvides til radio- og tv-shows af samme navn, men Matt er i øjeblikket fokuseret på sin hjemmeside.

42. Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor er en velkendt teknologikonsulent og forfatter. Hans hjemmeside, askdavetaylor.com , er et vidtfavnende (alt fra grundlæggende internet til ^(Internet)Mac eller UNIX , webdesign^(Web) og spørgsmål for nybegyndere) teknisk supportforum, hvor læserne indsender et spørgsmål, og Dave Taylor besvarer det.

Taylor har udvidet sit udvalg ud over traditionel webteknologi til så forskellige emner som videospil, iPods og endda skrivebranchen. Dave bemærker, at askdavetaylor.com genererede næsten 12 millioner besøgende i 2007, og teknologirelaterede "hvordan man"-søgninger på Google returnerer ofte askdavetaylor.com som et toprangeret valg. Taylor driver også to andre populære blogs, The Business Blog på Intuitive.com og hans Attachment Parenting-blog.

41. Kevin Mitnick

Når det kommer til internet-relaterede berømtheder, er der de berømte og de berygtede. Kevin Mitnick falder bestemt ind i sidstnævnte kategori. En dømt computerhacker (han tilbragte 5 år i fængsel), Mitnicks metode var social engineering snarere end brute force hacking, hvilket betyder, at han stolede på gætværk omkring folks adgangskoder baseret på forskning (for eksempel) i stedet for at køre automatiserede hackingværktøjer.

Mitnick kæmpede mod begrænsninger for internetadgang^(Internet) ved sin løsladelse og har siden lanceret et computersikkerhedsfirma. Hans  hjemmeside^(website)  er et populært mål for hackere, med evnen til at skæmme det betragtes som et tegn på hacking-dygtighed. I sin seneste pensling med webberømthed afviste onlinefællesskabet  The Well  Mitnicks ansøgning om medlemskab, en begivenhed, der affødte en byge af indlæg i blogosfæren.

40. James Gosling

James Gosling er en canadisk softwareudvikler og Computer Science Ph.D. arbejder for Sun Microsystems og varetager stillingen som Vice President og Sun Fellow .

Gosling er generelt anerkendt som en af ​​skaberne af Java -programmeringssproget, krediteret med det originale Java -sprogdesign og implementering af dets originale compiler og virtuelle maskine. Gosling kommenterer Javas^(Java) nuværende tilstand på sin  blog på Sun. Med hensyn til webkultur er Gosling et hyppigt interviewemne om Java - relaterede emner, men hans vigtigste bidrag er teknisk; som skaber og evangelist for Java forbliver han et godt stykke bag kulisserne for den brede offentlighed, selvom han ikke er mindre vigtig end de andre webberømtheder.

39. Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo , alias "lockergnome", er en velkendt computersystemsupport-guru og tidligere TechTV - vært. Han driver Lockergnome- webloggen og en gruppe af tekniske supportwebsteder. Lockergnome er vært for en årlig alternativ teknisk konference kendt som Gnomedex , som typisk fokuserer på banebrydende trends inden for online computing, herunder sociale netværk og tekniske muligheder.

Pirilllos egen hjemmeside chrispirillo.com byder på en eklektisk blanding af meninger, råd om teknisk support og tips, kuponer og videoer. Pirillo er en evangelist for forskellige webteknologier, herunder blogging, onlinevideo, RSS , Podcasting og Google AdSense , og anvender alle disse på sine websteder. Pirillo er blevet kendt for sin slagord "vi vil 'E' ya senere", som han ledsager med en "E" håndbevægelse, når på video.

38. Leo Laporte

Leo Laporte er et mediekraftcenter inden for teknologi. Hans karriere inkluderer at skrive som klummeskribent med førende branchepublikationer og udgive en række computerrelaterede bøger, herunder  101 computersvar, du behøver at vide^{(101 Computer Answers You Need To Know)}  og  Poor Leo's computeralmanak^{(Poor Leo’s Computer Almanac)} .

Men langt hans største indflydelse og synlighed har været gennem vært eller co-vært for en lang række tv- og radioteknologiprogrammer, herunder The Lab With Leo Laporte , The Tech Guy , Internet !, The Screen Savers og Dvorak on Computers . Han har også gæsteoptrædener på en bred vifte af shows som Live with Regis og Kelly og World News Now.

Laporte er også skaberen af ​​det mest succesrige podcast-netværk på nettet:  This Week in Tech .

37. Glenn Reynolds

Med sin bog fra 2006,  An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government and Other Goliaths satte juraprofessor, Popular Mechanics Contributing Editor og bloggeren Glenn Reynolds sin teori om, at teknologien har muliggjort almindelige folk til at gribe en prædikestol og gøre deres meninger hørt, og at "journalistik er ved at blive en aktivitet, ikke blot en profession."

Reynolds'  Instapundit-  blog er blevet en af ​​de mest læste politiske weblogs, med dens popularitet og Reynolds' bestræbelser på at promovere borgerblogging, der har givet ham det lille navn "The BlogFather ."

36. Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington har været involveret i en række højteknologiske start-ups. Han var medstifter af Zip.ca , Pool.com , Achex og edgio. Hans største indflydelse på verden af ​​internet , teknologi og iværksætteri er gennem hans blogside TechCrunch .

Arringtons indflydelse er ofte anerkendt af medierne, herunder nik fra Wired , Forbes og Time , som omtalte ham som en "cybermogul" på deres 2008 Time 100 List . Med et stort netværk af branchekontakter og information hentet fra forskning og socialt samvær, kan Arringtons mening eller omtale af et nyt websted på en af ​​TechCrunch - tilknyttede blogs eller podcasts skabe eller ødelægge webstedet.

35. Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen er en utrættelig forkæmper for at forbedre hjemmesidens brugervenlighed. Han har udgivet flere bøger om emnet, har patenter relateret til internetbrugbarhedsmetoder^(Internet) og har haft en betydelig indflydelse på webstedsdesign.

Nielsens skub for brugervenlighed frem for udseende har en tendens til at vige tilbage fra fancy grafik, flash-tunge^{(Flash-heavy)} og visuelt tiltalende websteder, hvilket ofte sætter ham på kant med det grafiske designfællesskab. Nielsens hjemmeside, Useit ,  afspejler hans designprincipper, der udelukkende er afhængig af tekst og på hans Altertbox- spalter, der er sendt ud siden 1996 til abonnenter, og diskuterer aktuelle problemer med webbrugbarhed.

Nielsen er også kendt for " Nielsens^(Nielsen) lov", som i sidste ende påpeger, at da hjemmenetværkshastigheden stiger med en langsommere hastighed end computerprocessorhastigheden, er brugerens internetoplevelse^(Internet) bundet til netværkets båndbredde.

34. Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg  er administrerende direktør^(CEO) og medstifter af det sociale netværk Facebook.com . Med Facebooks succes er han blevet en ekstremt velhavende ung mand, i hvert fald på papiret. Baseret på en Microsoft - investering på 246 millioner dollars for en ejerandel på 1,6 % i virksomheden er Zuckerberg en af ​​verdens yngste milliardærer.

Forsøg på at øge indtjeningsmulighederne for Facebook har rejst bekymringer om privatlivets fred, og Zuckerberg har måttet bruge stigende mængder af tid på at undskylde over for brugerne, nogle gange via sin blog på Facebook . Zuckerberg har også stået over for retssager over påstande om, at han ophævede Facebook -ideen og muligvis kildekoden fra et andet projekt, han var involveret i på college. På trods af hans nuværende problemer er der ingen tvivl om, at Zuckerberg har bevist, at sociale netværk er blandt de hotteste trends på nettet.

33. Marc Benioff

Marc Benioff  er formand^(Chairman) og administrerende direktør^(CEO) for CRM- udbyderen Salesforce.com . Benioff er en ivrig fortaler for software som en on-demand-tjeneste (eller SAS ) , der undlader rollen som traditionelle pakket software-baserede modeller .

Hans bøger  The Business of Changing the World  og  Compassionate Capitalism afspejler hans tro på, at forretning og teknologi kan bidrage til positive sociale forandringer, en tro han støttede med lanceringen af ​​Salesforce.com Foundation (som donerer 1 % af overskuddet, 1 % af egenkapitalen og 1 % af medarbejdernes tid til velgørende formål). Benioffs bidrag til både teknologi og sociale forandringer er blevet anerkendt af priser fra mange publikationer og organisationer, herunder Business Week , Fortune og eWeek.

32. Jerry Yang

En af de rigeste mænd i verden,  Jerry Yang^{(Jerry Yang)}  er CEO og medstifter af Yahoo! Inc. _

Starter som en webportal, tilføjer derefter e-mail-funktioner og inkorporerer Alta Vistas søgemaskine , Yahoo! er nu et af de førende internetmærker^(Internet) . Ifølge Yahoo! _ deres webportal modtager mere trafik end nogen anden hjemmeside på internettet^(Internet) .

I de seneste måneder har Yang været nødt til at håndtere to væsentlige kontroverser omkring sit firma: påstande om, at Yahoo! havde givet kinesisk politi IP-adresser brugt af dissidenter til at sende en e-mail via en Yahoo! konto (som resulterede i dissidenternes anholdelse) , og senest et mislykket tilbud fra Microsoft om at købe Yahoo! for over 45 milliarder dollars.

31. Dave Winer

Kendt som en påstået og åbenhjertig fortaler for webbaseret teknologi og kultur, er  Dave Winer grundlæggeren af ​​UserLand Software , tidligere ejer af blog-hosting-siden Weblogs.com , en tidligere redaktør med Wired magazine, og skaberen af ​​RSS (Really Simple ) Syndikering^{(Simple Syndication)} ) 2.0.

Winer er krediteret for at være en pioner inden for udviklingen af ​​andre vigtige webteknologier, herunder SOAP , XML-RPC og Podcasting. Hans DaveNet- essays, en populær forløber for blogs, blev udgivet regelmæssigt fra 1994 til 2004 og distribueret til læserne via e-mail.

30. Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis kommer fra en journalistisk og underholdningsmæssig baggrund. En tidligere tv-anmelder hos TV Guide and People , han var skaberen af ​​Entertainment Weekly samt redigerede eller udgav spalter med adskillige aviser og tidsskrifter.

Jarvis flyttede sit fokus online og var præsident^(President) og kreativ direktør^{(Creative Director)} for Advance.net og hjalp New York Times med udviklingen af ​​deres About.com - websted. Hans blog,  Buzzmachine , fokuserer på medier og nyheder med vægt på at bringe mening tilbage til nyheder.

Besøgende på Buzzmachine blev^{(Buzzmachine)} fordoblet i 2005 efter en berygtet hændelse, hvor Jarvis sendte et åbent brev til Dells administrerende direktør Michael Dell^{(Dell CEO Michael Dell)} , hvor han klagede over den "citron"-computer, han havde købt, og Dells "rystende" kundeservice.

29. Jonathan Schwartz

Som præsident^(President) og administrerende direktør^(CEO) for Sun Microsystems har Jonathan Schwartz stor indflydelse i teknologiens verden.

Da han første gang ankom til Sun , var han involveret i markedsføringen af ​​Java , softwaren, der er blevet en førende udviklingsplatform for webbaserede og mobile applikationer. Schwartz mener, at samfundet er begyndt at gå fra informationsforbrug til et deltagende stadium, hvor mennesker også skaber ideer og indhold.

Han bruger sin egen  blog  i vid udstrækning til at diskutere alt Sun , inklusive virksomhedsopdateringer, interessante projekter og interviews med medarbejdere, hvilket giver offentligheden et hidtil uset blik på den indre funktion i en stor virksomhed.

28. Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly er forfatter, klummeskribent og "Senior Maverick" (og stiftende administrerende redaktør^{(Founding Executive Editor)} ) af en af ​​onlinekulturens førende kulturelle institutioner: Wired magazine.

Han var også involveret i lanceringen af ​​online-fællesskabet The Well . Kellys bog Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World  var en påkrævet læsning for skuespillere i den skelsættende cyberfilm  The Matrix , og et interview med Kelly er inkluderet på nogle DVD -udgivelsesversioner af filmen. For nylig var Kelly med til at stifte Linnean Enterprise , et ambitiøst (25 år og $5 milliarder) projekt til at identificere, beskrive og skabe et onlinekatalog over alle levende arter.

27. Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson er præsident^(President) og medstifter af det populære sociale netværkswebsted MySpace . Han opnåede offentlig berømmelse som det mest kendte ansigt på MySpace , fordi hans navn optrådte som en standard "ven" på alle nyoprettede konti; på dette tidspunkt ( juli 2008^{(July 2008)} ) har Tom over 232.000.000 MySpace - venner.

Andersons^(Anderson) konto blev også brugt til servicemeddelelser, hvilket kun øgede hans berømmelse. Som et resultat af al denne eksponering blev Anderson et let mål for parodi og er blevet fremhævet af tegneserier, sangere, tv-shows, forfattere og kunstnere.

Rupurt Murdochs køb af MySpace for 580 millioner dollars hjælper sandsynligvis Anderson med at komme forbi ribben.

26. Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly  er grundlægger og administrerende direktør^(CEO) for O'Reilly Media, et firma kendt for at udgive computer- og teknologirelaterede bøger. I et tæt samarbejde med det teknologiske samfund er O'Reilly ofte på forkant med teknologiske skift og udnytter sin adgang til at skubbe sin agenda om at "ændre verden ved at sprede viden om innovatører."

O'Reilly Media var vært for et møde i 1998, der blev kendt som Open Source Summit , og en konference i 2005 afholdt af O'Reilly bragte udtrykket Web 2.0 frem. Tim O'Reilly har længe været tilhænger af Open Source og Free Software - bevægelserne, en involvering, der førte til en strid med Amazon.com om virksomhedens patent på konceptet "et-klik" shopping.

25. Vint Cerf

En tidligere formand^(Chair) for ICANN ( Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ),  Vinton (Vint) Cerf  krediteres som værende en af ​​grundlæggerne af internettet^(Internet) , endda ofte omtalt som " internettets^(Internet) fader ."

Mens han var hos DARPA ( US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ), var Cert meddesignede TCPI/IP -protokollerne, der ligger til grund for internetarkitekturen^(Internet) , og som vicepræsident^{(Vice President)} for MCI Digital Information Services , ledede Cerf holdet, der skabte MCI Mail , det første kommercielle internet . mail service.

Hans bidrag til internettet^(Internet) har givet ham et utal af hæder og anerkendelse, herunder Turing-^{(Turing Award)} prisen og præsidentens ^{(Presidential Medal)}frihedsmedalje^(Freedom) .

I øjeblikket er Cerf Vice ^(Cerf)President^{(Vice President)} og Chief Internet Evangelist hos Google .

24. Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts er softwareingeniør, der arbejder med kvalitetsgruppen hos Google , hvor han i øjeblikket leder Webspam-teamet^{(Webspam Team)} . Cutts er kendt for at introducere Googles retningslinjer for webmastere^{(Google Webmaster Guideline)} og hans bestræbelser på at slå ned på udbredelsen af ​​linkspam. Han er en berømthedsingeniør i webcirkler, der hjælper webmastere med at forstå, hvordan Google rangerer deres websteder, samtidig med at han leder en kamp mod spammere.

Cutts var centrum for nogle kontroverser i 2006, da han angiveligt indrømmede at have postet til web-relaterede websteder under identiteten af ​​GoogleGuy . Cutts' blog er en blanding af Google og søgemaskine-tema-materiale kombineret med opslag af almen interesse.

23. Arianna Huffington

The Huffington Post , et liberalt nyheds-, kommentar- og blogsite, der blev lanceret i 2005, er en ofte citeret mediereference takket være medstifter og chefredaktør Arianna Huffington og hendes team af skribenter og bidragydere. Indlæg inkluderer materiale fra politikere og berømtheder, der søger en udgang til at give udtryk for deres meninger.

Forfatter til et dusin bøger, Huffingtons seneste produktion trækker ikke noget slag, inklusive 2004's:  Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America . En Huffington-ledet gruppes anti-SUV-kampagne i 2003, hvor man sammenlignede at køre en SUV med at finansiere terrorisme, hjalp med at cementere hendes omdømme, og hun fortsætter med at optræde som kommentator på tv og være medvært på adskillige radioprogrammer.

Arianna Huffington blev udnævnt til Time Magazines liste^(List) over verdens 100 mest indflydelsesrige mennesker i 2006.

22. Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow , en efterspurgt kommentator om populærkultur og teknologi, er en canadisk forfatter og blogger, velkendt som en åbenhjertig aktivist/agitator for liberalisering af ophavsretslovgivningen og forvaltning af digitale rettigheder.

Doctorow brugte fire år på at arbejde for Electronic Frontier Foundation , før han rejste for at forfølge en fuldtidsskribentkarriere i 2006. Han medredigerer den populære blog Boing Boing og vedligeholder også sin egen  Craphound-  side.

Cory Doctorow udgav flere af sine science fiction-romaner under Creative Commons -licenser, herunder 2003's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom . En klummeskribent med Wired , Make og Popular Science , Doctorow bidrager også til forskellige andre online og trykte medier.

21. Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos , der blev kåret til Time Magazines 1999 Person of the Year,   grundlagde Amazon.com , styrede det gennem dot-com aktiekollapset i slutningen af ​​1990'erne ved at forfølge en usandsynlig strategi med langsom vækst og forvandlede virksomheden til en internetdetailgigant^(Internet) .

Fra starten i 1994 som online bogforhandler har Bezos (præsident, administrerende direktør og bestyrelsesformand ^(Board))^(Bezos) vokset Amazon.com^(President) til et^(CEO) diversificeret outfit^(Chairman) , der^(Amazon.com) ikke kun dominerer online bogsalg, men også er en vigtig aktør i salget af Dvd'er^(DVDs) , cd'er^(CDs) , videospil, legetøj og stort set alle andre varer. Amazon er fortsat med at ekspandere ved at tilbyde musik- og videodownloadtjenester, affilierede relationer, selvudgivelse for forfattere og endda sin egen e-bogslæserhardwareplatform, Kindle .

20. Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose var velkendt i teknologikredse takket være sit arbejde på TechTV og G4, herunder vært  Attack of The Show!. Han har været involveret i podcasting-bevægelsen, inklusive den meget succesrige Diggnation , som hævder 250.000 downloads pr. afsnit, og optrædener på  This Week In Tech .

Rose er dog langtfra bedst kendt for sit utroligt populære Web 2.0- site  digg.com . Digg , et socialt bogmærke-websted, kostede Rose et par tusinde dollars, da det først blev lanceret i 2004 og voksede hurtigt til at blive en Web 2.0- succeshistorie, hvilket bragte ham på forsiden af ​​Business Week magazine i april 2006. Roses^(Rose) seneste satsninger omfatte det sociale netværk pownce.com, som gik live i januar^(January) 2008, og online videonetværket Revision3 .

19. Robert Scoble

Anset for at være den person, for hvem udtrykket "talsblogger" blev opfundet, var Robert Scoble en succesrig blogger, der sluttede sig til Microsoft i 2003 og brugte sin populære personlige blog  scobleizer.com  til at skrive kommentarer, der ofte var mere favorable over for Microsoft end kommentarer fundet på andre websteder.

Scoble forlod Microsoft i 2006 og kom til Podtech.net som Vice President for Medieudvikling^{(Media Development)} , og forlod i 2008 for at slutte sig til Fast Company som videoblogger. Scoble har hjulpet med at bevise værdien af ​​blogging som en interaktiv platform og har også effektivt illustreret blogging fordele i kunderelationer. Ved at forfølge videoblogging kan Scoble være på forkant med det næste evolutionære trin i blogging.

18. Lawrence Lessig

Grundlægger af Creative Commons og bestyrelsesmedlem i Electronic Frontier Foundation , juraprofessor  Lawrence Lessig er blevet en central figur inden for teknologiophavsret, som kritiker af restriktive softwarepatenter, copyright-love og ejerskab af trådløst spektrum.

Når han lægger sine penge, hvor hans mund er, er Lessigs bøger  The Future of Ideas ,  Free Culture  and  Code: Version 2.0 blevet gjort tilgængelige som gratis downloads under en Creative Commons -licens. I 2008 påbegyndte en Facebook -gruppe og et websted et "udkast til Lessig for kongres"-fremstød, et forslag som Lessig har modsat sig, idet han argumenterede for, at en hastekampagne med ham selv som kandidat ville skade Change Congress- bevægelsen, han støtter.

17. Guy Kawasaki

Engang bedst kendt som en Macintosh- marketingguru, satte Guy Kawasaki i flere omgange med Apple , først som Mac-evangelist og derefter som Apple Fellow . Som forfatter har han været klummeskribent og udgivet otte bøger, herunder  regler for revolutionære^{(Rules For Revolutionaries)} .

Kawasakis blog,  How To Change The World , er populær læsning for hans tanker om teknologi, forretning, Web 2.0 og andre emner og inkluderer et jobopslagstavle. Som administrerende direktør^(Director) for Garage Technology Ventures har Kawasaki vendt sin opmærksomhed mod venturekapital og finansiering af nystartede virksomheder.

Kawasaki blev kendt i 2007, da han annoncerede et nyt web 2.0-websted,  Truemors , der blev et eksperiment omkring, hvor billigt en web-virksomhed kan lanceres ( Kawaski hævdede, at Truemors kostede lidt over $12k), selvom det ikke helt har levet op til betydelig hype.

16. Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier har opnået den usandsynlige bedrift at bringe kryptografi og computersikkerhed ind i popkulturen; han er blevet nævnt i film ( DaVinci-koden^{(The DaVinci Code)} ) og sitcomen  Everybody Loves Raymond  og er meget efterspurgt i medier og regeringskredse som sikkerhedsekspert.

Grundlæggeren og CTO for computernetværkssikkerhedsfirmaet BT Counterpane , Schneier , har skabt adskillige kryptografiske algoritmer og skrevet en række bøger om både kryptografi og computersikkerhed, herunder Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About security in an Uncertain World . Hans gratis månedlige nyhedsbrev Crypto-Gram har over 130.000 abonnenter, og hans  hjemmeside^(website) er en populær destination for dem, der ikke kun er interesseret i computersikkerhedsspørgsmål, men i afsløringen af ​​generelle sikkerhedsrelaterede myter.

15. Jimmy Wales

" Forestil dig^(Imagine) en verden, hvor hver enkelt person på planeten får fri adgang til summen af ​​al menneskelig viden. Det er det, vi gør." Dette er ifølge  Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales i et ^{(Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales)}Slashdot- interview  fra 2004 konceptet bag Wikipedia .

Internettet tog^(Internet) allerede en vejafgift på traditionelle papirbundne encyklopædier, men lanceringen i 2001 af Wikipedia , Wales' online vidensbase bestående af brugergenererede, kollaborative, peer-redigerede artikler, gav dem et lammende slag. På trods af nogle uenigheder omkring Wales' personlige vs. Wikipedia - økonomi og igangværende kontroverser, når Wikipedia - indlæg redigeres under mistænkelige omstændigheder, er Wikipedia blevet et standard online-forskningsværktøj med en videnbase, der nærmer sig 2,5 millioner ( engelsksprogede^(English) ) artikler og omkring 75.000 aktive bidragydere.

14. Paul Graham

Paul Graham blev først fremtrædende som medstifter af Viaweb , den første ASP (application service provider) software, et produkt, der indvarslede en æra med praktisk internetdetailhandel^{(Internet Retail)} .

Viaweb blev solgt til Yahoo! og re-brandet som Yahoo! Butik. Graham har opnået en vis berømmelse siden da som forfatter med adskillige bøger til gode og en populær personlig hjemmeside, paulgraham.com , hvor han blandt andet har postet materiale, der har været med til at inspirere SPAM-filtreringsteknologi^{(SPAM-filtering)} . En samling af hans essays er blevet udgivet som en bog med titlen  Hackers and Painters . Som venturekapitalist har Graham's  Y Combinator givet opstartsfinansiering til snesevis af firmaer, herunder det populære websted^(Web) reddit.com.

13. Sergey Brin

En russisk-født, amerikansk^(American) milliardær (en af ​​de yngste milliardærer på planeten), Sergey Brin er præsident^(President) for teknologi^(Technology) hos  Google  (det firma, han grundlagde sammen med Larry Page ).

Sammen med Page og CEO Eric Schmidt deler Brin æren af ​​at blive udnævnt af PC Magazine som den første på sin liste over de 50 vigtigste personer på nettet^(Web) . Brin forvandlede en fascination af datamining og dataudvinding til et computervidenskabsprojekt på Stanford University og satte dette arbejde til, hvad der snart ville blive internettets mest populære søgemaskine. Brin er en hyppig taler om emnet teknologi og har optrådt som gæst i adskillige tv-shows.

12. Chris Anderson

Chefredaktør for det indflydelsesrige teknologi-fokuserede magasin Wired , Anderson er også forfatter til The Long Tail: Why The Future of Business Is Selling More .

Andersons  Long Tail -  blog giver ham mulighed for at udvide sin teori om, at internettet^(Internet) har gjort det muligt for en større mangfoldighed af produkter at blive solgt rentabelt på grund af den øgede markedsstørrelse for et givet nicheprodukt sammenlignet med traditionelle detailsalgsmuligheder. For nylig udgav Wired  Free , en artikel af Anderson baseret på hans kommende bog af samme navn.

I løbet af sin embedsperiode har Anderson hjulpet med at booste wired.com's blogging-tilstedeværelse, herunder oprettelsen af  ​​GeekDad , en blog, der giver ham mulighed for at hengive sin fascination af radiostyrede køretøjer og andet højteknologisk "legetøj".

11. Tim Berners-Lee

Mens world wide web er så tæt på allestedsnærværende, som man kunne forestille sig i disse dage, var dette ikke altid tilfældet. Faktisk eksisterede det ikke for mindre end tyve år siden. Internettet havde eksisteret i nogen tid, men det var i høj grad domænet^(Internet) for akademikere, militæret og teknologinørder. Sir Tim Berners-Lee  er omdrejningspunktet for nettet, som vi kender det i dag, den person, der først kombinerede en række begreber og teknologier (domænenavnesystem, TCP/IP -protokol, internettet^(Internet) og hypertekst) for at skabe world wide web .

Den første hjemmeside gik live i august 1991, og vi har ikke set tilbage siden. Berners-Lee er også grundlægger og direktør^(Director) for World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), en organisation, der har til opgave at skabe webstandarder.

10. Larry Page

En af de to grundlæggere af  Google , Larry Page hjalp med at designe den originale Google -søgemaskine og var virksomhedens første administrerende direktør^(CEO) .

Da Google begyndte at vokse til noget meget mere ambitiøst, flyttede Page ud af CEO- rollen (som blev besat af teknologiveteranen Eric Schmidt ), og overtog stillingen som President , Products .

Sammen med Schmidt og medstifter Sergey Brin er Page ansvarlig for den daglige drift af Google , en virksomhed, som nu beskæftiger over 10.000 mennesker verden over. Sammen med Brin og Schmidt blev Page udnævnt af PC Magazine som den første på sin liste over de 50 vigtigste personer på nettet^(Web) .

9. Eric Schmidt

Kåret af PC Magazine som den første på sin liste over de 50 vigtigste personer på nettet^(Web) (sammen med andre Google -ledere Larry Page og Sergey Brin ), har Dr. Eric Schmidt en meget lang og indflydelsesrig karriere i teknologiindustrien. Virksomheder, han har haft fremtrædende stillinger hos, omfatter Sun Microsystems ( CTO og leder af JAVA - udvikling) og Novell ( administrerende direktør^(CEO) ).

I 2001 blev han ansat som bestyrelsesformand^(Chairman) og administrerende ^(CEO)direktør^(Board) for  Google . Derudover kom Schmidt ind i Apples bestyrelse i^(Directors) 2006, hvilket gjorde ham til en betydelig del af to af de mest indflydelsesrige teknologivirksomheder. Schmidt har hjulpet Google med at fortsætte sin hurtige vækst, hvilket gør ham til en af ​​de rigeste mænd i verden.

8. Scott Adams

Tegneserietegneren Scott Adams^{(Cartoonist Scott Adams)} ramte en nerve med Dilbert , hans udbredte syndikerede tegneserie om funktionærer, der arbejder i en kabinegård, baseret på hans egen erfaring med at arbejde i højteknologiske virksomheder.

Blandt de populære kulturelle udtryk, som Dilbert har skabt, er "Pointy Haired Boss" og "Nerdvana." dilbert.com er vokset til en destinationsside med daglige tegneseriestrimler og yderligere indhold, herunder Dilbert- widgets, animation og mashups. Ved at drage fordel af Web 2.0 sociale aspekter stemmer læserne om og rangordner tegneserier.

Adams' blog  dilbertblog.typepad.com  er adskilt fra Dilberts^(Dilbert) tegneserieimperium og giver Adams mulighed for at udøve sit skarpe vid på en bred vifte af emner fra det politiske til miljø- og popkulturen.

7. Mark Cuban

Den amerikanske milliardær Mark Cuban^{(American Billionaire Mark Cuban)} solgte en software-gensalgsvirksomhed ( MicroSolutions ) til Compuserve ved at bruge provenuet til at finansiere Broadcast.com , som han solgte til Yahoo! for 5,9 milliarder dollars i Yahoo! lager. Cuban købte derefter Dallas Mavericks NBA- hold.

Han er fortsat interesseret i mediedistribution og er en stærk fortaler for high definition video; han er i øjeblikket formand^(Chairman) for HDNet og en del af 2929 Entertainment , som kom til nyheder i 2006 ved at være det første produktionsselskab, der udgav en film (Bubble) i biografer og på DVD samtidigt. Cubans  blogmaverick.com  giver ham prædikestolen til at nå ud til masserne om emner, der ligger ham tæt på, herunder video, tv og The Mavericks .

6. Chris Crocker

Hvis du har været i nærheden af ​​en computer for nylig, er der stor sandsynlighed for, at du enten har set eller hørt om den berygtede " LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!”-videoer, hvoraf den første Chris Crocker lagde ud på sin MySpace- side, mens den anden gik til YouTube . Reaktion^(Response) på mediernes tilbageslag mod Britney Spears , især det kritiske misbrug, hun blev udsat for efter hendes "comeback"-optræden ved MTV Music Video Awards 2007 .

Crockers^(Crocker) video indeholdt en over-the-top præstation, der hurtigt gjorde den til et af YouTubes mest sete klip og vandt Crocker øjeblikkelig berømmelse. Han optrådte i en række tv-shows, herunder forskellige nyhedsprogrammer, The Howard Stern Show og Jimmy Kimmel Live , og blev hædret med en pris i magasinet Wired . “ LAD BRITNEY VARE^{(LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE)} !” har inspireret hundredvis af parodivideoer, kommentarvideoer og bevist, hvor effektiv YouTube kan være til distribution af viralt indhold.

5. Seth Godin

Seth Godin er en bestseller forfatter og foredragsholder. Hans  blog , som er blandt de mest populære på internettet^(Internet) , er fokuseret på, hvordan ideer spredes og markedsføring af tilladelser. Seths markedsføringsideologi beskriver en magtfuld forbruger, der takket være internettet^(Internet) ikke længere er underlagt tv-monopolet.

Efter denne ideologi oprettede han i 2005 Squidoo , som er et socialt netværk, hvor brugere kan dele deres anbefalinger eller ekspertise om forskellige emner. Det ville være svært at besøge ethvert markedsføringsrelateret websted uden at støde på en omtale af Seths ideer.

Han er også medstifter af Yoyodyne , et banebrydende online marketingfirma. Yoyodyne blev solgt til Yahoo! i 1998, og seth blev VP for Permission Marketing for søgefirmaet.

4. Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin er blogger, klummeskribent og politisk kommentator. Hun gør mange gæsteoptrædener i radio- og tv-shows som Fox News Channel , men det er måske gennem sin blog, hun skinner mest.

På trods af at hun hævdede, at hun "blev født og forbliver en blækplettet stakkel",  er MichelleMalkin.com en af ​​de mest populære konservative politiske blogs på internettet^(Internet) . Hendes artikler omtales ofte i andre medier, herunder flere mainstream-publikationer, hvilket illustrerer den vigtige rolle, bloggere indtager i det nye medielandskab.

I 2007 udnævnte den nationale republikanske senatorialkomité ^{(National Republican Senatorial Committee)}Malkin til en^{(Malkin one)} af ​​de bedste konservative bloggere i landet. For et par år siden grundlagde hun også Hot Air -sendenetværket efter succesen med hendes blog.

3. Beppe Grillo

Den italienske komiker og aktivist blev berømt for sin politiske satire. Inde i sine tv-shows ville han angribe direkte korrupte politikere og blæse økonomiske skandaler åbent. Han blev så utilpas for både politikere og forretningsmænd, at han i slutningen af ​​80'erne blev forvist fra tv i Italien^(Italy)

Tv-forbuddet gjorde dog ikke Grillo til tavshed . Han fortsatte med at optræde på teatre over hele landet, og i 2003 startede han bloggen  BeppeGrillo.it . Succesen var øjeblikkelig, og i dag er hans blog blandt de 10 mest populære i verden ifølge Technorati . Hvad betyder det i tal? Nå, hans indlæg modtager i gennemsnit over 1.000 kommentarer.

Blandt andre geniale stunts købte han i 2005 en hel side med reklamer i en national avis og brugte den til at bede om, at guvernøren for Italiens centralbank ^(Italy)(^(Bank) som var involveret i flere skandaler) træder tilbage.

2. Perez Hilton

Ved at udnytte en tilsyneladende endeløs offentlig appetit på berømthedssladder begyndte Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. at blogge under pseudonymet Perez Hilton (tog sit kaldenavn fra socialite og professionelle berømthed Paris Hilton ). Raket til berømmelse i løbet af få måneder, lancerede han snart PerezHilton.com , hvor han hævder at modtage op mod otte millioner sidevisninger dagligt.

Indholdet tenderer mod de unge, men Perez har fået et stort publikum ved at poste berømthedsbilleder med katteagtige kommentarer; nogle er endda prydet af hans "klodser" af horn, narkotikarester eller andre genstande. Kontrovers^{(Controversy)} omgiver Hilton , ikke kun på grund af arten af ​​hans kommentarer, men også på grund af beskyldninger om ulovlig kopiering af billeder fra andre websteder og en vane med at "udflugte" berømtheder, han mistænker for at være homoseksuelle.

1. Tila Tequila

Tila Tequila er kunstnernavnet for Tila Nguyen . Tequila , som ^(Tequila)først^(First) blev populær som model for Playboy , blev snart vist i andre magasiner som Maxim and Stuff og begyndte at optage musik og optræde i reality-programmer, herunder VH1's Surviving Ted Nugent og Identity . På Identity hævdede hun at have over en million MySpace- venner.

Et reality-program, A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila , indeholdt tyve deltagere (både mænd og kvinder), der dystede om Tilas kærlighed, en blanding, der forårsagede betydelig kontrovers blandt konservative kristne^(Christians) . Hun har opnået berømmelse som en kraft i selvpromovering, med hendes hjemmeside  tilashotspot.com , der prygler hendes musik, videoer, sælger billeder og endda markedsfører sin egen modelinje.

TechCult’s Top 100 Web Celebrities (2022)

As the web goes mainѕtream, a brand new grоup оf celebrities iѕ emerging. The 100 peoplе you will find below are shaping the futurе of the Internet (most for the better, sоme for the worse…), and as a consequence, they are right under the spotlight.

We gathered around 200 potential names and queried them on Google to see how many results they would generate. Some minor adjustments were made, and the 100 names with the highest number of results were profiled (as you can see it is not our fault that Chris Crocker ended at the 6th position!)

Celebrities that became famous prior to the explosion of the Web were not included. Hence you will not find the likes of Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, despite our acknowledgment that they are also influencing the Internet.

TechCult’s Top 100 Web Celebrities

100. Alex Tew

College can be expensive, and students can be incredibly imaginative; put the two together and you will come up with some pretty unusual methods of earning tuition money.

That’s exactly what Alex Tew did to create his Million Dollar Homepage project. Starting in August, 2005, Tew began selling blocks of pixels on his page. Buyers could use the space for advertising or whatever they wished. Word of the project spread and soon Tew was getting coverage in mainstream magazines.

After a month, he had sold over $150,000 worth of space and by January, 2006, he had exceeded the one million dollar mark.

99. David Sifry

David Sifry is known primarily for having founded Technorati, a search engine that indexes over 100 million blogs (112.8 million blogs and 250 million pieces of tagged social media as of May 22, 2008).

In addition, Technorati tracks blog traffic and link stats, and its ranking system can mean bragging rights for sites (called the Technorati Top 100).

Silfry is an Open Source proponent, and is a frequent speaker on the subjects of web technology, wireless and blogging. In addition, he’s frequently interviewed or quoted in tech and business magazines, including The Guardian and The Economist.

98. Richard MacManus

Richard MacManus is the founder of Read/WriteWeb, a blog about technology issues and Web 2.0 developments that has been rated as one of the world’s 50 most popular blogs (by Technorati).

The blog also generates over 600,000 page views every month, and has around 220,000 RSS subscribers.

The impact of MacManus’ writing and Read/WriteWeb has been recognized by PC Magazine and other mainstream publications.

Prior to his blogging career, MacManus was a researcher, analyst and author, writing for ZDNet; he still consults for various technology companies, primarily those based in Silicon Valley.

97. Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood’s blog CodingHorror.com is a popular choice for those interested in web development and software programming in general. Atwood’s site is full of tips and commentary on how not to code, as well as programming advice.

Online since 2004, Atwood has a dedicated audience (over 60,000 RSS subscribers) and significant site traffic, estimated at over half a million unique visitors per month.

Jeff Atwood has recently joined up with Joel On Software Spolsky to create a new programming resource site, stackoverflow.com, currently under development.

96. Amanda Congdon

Amanda Congdon is best known as the popular anchor, co-producer and co-owner of Rocketboom, one of the most widely viewed video blogs on the web. She stayed with the show from 2004 through 2006.

Beginning with 700 viewers when she was hired by founder Andrew Michael Baron, Congdon grew Rocketboom’s audience for the three minute video clips to a reported 130,000 viewers per day. Congdon left Rocketboom in July of 2006 under controversial circumstances: she said she had been fired by Baron, while Baron’s claimed she left for showbiz opportunities.

Congdon has since made a number of guest appearance on TV shows and participated in other web-based projects, including the blog AmandaAcrossAmerica.com. She blogs and lists her current projects at AmandaCongdon.com.

95. Drew Curtis

Fark.com, started in 1999 by Drew Curtis, is a social news aggregator web site. Fark readers submit links to interesting (and/or controversial) items from other web sites and Fark administrators choose whether to promote these to the Fark.com front page; the items are tagged so they can be divided into related forums.

Readers comment on the stories and the traffic directed to linked pages from the Fark.com front page has been known to crash those sites’ servers due to excessive load; an effect known as being “farked.”

Curtis’ first book, It’s Not News, It’s FARK: How Mass Media Tries To Pass Off Crap As News was published in 2007.

94. Bob Parsons

Bob Parsons’ original involvement in the technology field was as the creator of MoneyCounts, a home accounting software package that he released in 1984. After diversifying into religious software (Bible-searching, Christian clip art, etc…), he sold his company to Intuit in 1994.

Parsons turned to the Internet and in 1997 founded Go Daddy, an Internet registrar and web-hosting firm. With three registrars under the company umbrella, including GoDaddy.com, Go Daddy is by far the dominant player in the industry, and the largest ICANN-accredited registrar.

Go Daddy has become a player in the ongoing evolution of Internet policies, to the point of becoming involved in political lobbying with the US government.

93. Judson Laipply

A comedian and motivational speaker, Judson Laipply posted a video on YouTube in 2006, looking for his fifteen minutes of Internet fame.

As it turned out, that video, The Evolution of Dance, was forwarded everywhere and became the most popular video on YouTube: most viewed of all time and most commented of all time. As of May, 2008, it has been viewed nearly 86 million times and nearly 160,000 people have left comments. Of course it has also spawned a series of imitators and send-ups.

Laipply keeps the video front and center on his web site, The Evolution of Dance, which has become a commercial portal offering EOD shirts and motivational speaking bookings by Laipply.

92. Mitchell Baker

Mitchell Baker”s title inside the Mozilla Foundation is quite unique: Chief Lizard Wrangler. Translated it should mean Chairperson. She runs the business side of both the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation (the subsidiary), and she is also responsible for the vision that the organization is pursuing.

Back in 1994 Baker was already involved with Netscape Communications, where she was in charge of the intellectual property protection department.

Given the enormous importance that the Mozilla Foundation is taking in recent years, Baker was included in the Time”s 100 most important people in the world list (2005). You can read more about her opinions and the inside activities of Mozilla on her personal blog.

91. Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder is someone who successfully plays in both print and web media, apart from being a talented illustrator.

Frauenfelder is probably best known on the web as the co-founder of the blog Boing Boing, based on bOING bOING magazine, which he also co-founded. He’s been a print columnist with a wide range of publications, including Playboy, The New York Times Magazine and Wired (where he was an editor for 5 years).

He is currently Editor-In-Chief of Make magazine. Frauenfelder wrote and illustrated a science book aimed at kids called The Mad Professor, and recently released the book Rule The Web: How To Do Anything And Everything on the Internet- Better, Faster, Easier.

90. Sarah Lacy

Sarah lacy is a bi-weekly columnist for Business Week magazine and the co-author of that magazine’s Kevin Rose cover story. She also co-hosts Yahoo’s Tech Ticker web show.

Lacy can be a bit of a target –her good look have earned resentment on some fronts, despite ten years of tech industry reporting- and at the SXSW conference in 2008, things came to a head when the audience turned on her while she interviewed FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage.

Lacy’s book Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 was released in May, 2008. She blogs regularly at Sarah Lacy.com.

89. Jason Kottke

Jason Kottke is a long-time blogger, “Bloggie” Lifetime Achievement award winner and former web designer. Kottke’s design work has been recognized in The New York Times and Forbes and a font he designed (silkscreen typeface) has been used by Volvo, MTV and Adobe.

He began blogging in 1998 and kept at it, with a 2000 profile in the New Yorker helping to introduce the idea of blogging to the general public. 2004 saw a rough patch when Kottke’s blog, kottke.org, broke the news of Ken Jennings’ Jeopardy loss, including the question he answered incorrectly –the network was not amused. In 2005, Kottke experimented with asking readers to make donations to support his blog, reporting that 1450 micro-patrons had contributed nearly $40,000.

88. Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin is a blogger and somewhat of a technology and digital culture media personality, making frequent appearances on Internet celebrity lists.

She holds the high profile position of co-editor at the blog Boing Boing , and contributes material to Wired, wired.com, Make, Popular Science, Playboy, and editorial pieces for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

She is a correspondent for NPR radio show Day to Day and has put in guest appearances as a technology commentator on ABC, CNN, Fox, G4TechTV and BBC5 radio. Jardin also appears as the co-host of Boing Boing’s daily web-based video show BoingBoingtv.

87. Ryan Block

As Editor-in-Chief of technology blog Engadget, Ryan Block has considerable influence in how computer, home electronic and technology-related products in general are received. To gain some perspective of how much influence a leading technology blog can have, consider that a 2007 Engadget post by Block about a possible iPhone and OSX release delay, based on a faked Apple e-mail, drove down Apple’s share price by 2.2% within a matter of minutes.

Block is a frequent guest on tech-related shows, including appearances on Cranky Geeks, CNET, Attack of the Show and others. Block is currently involved in a relationship with popular web media personality Veronica Belmont, a fact he mentions frequently on his personal blog.

86. Markos Moulitsas

Markos “kos” Moulitsas is an author and blogger. He founded and is the main author of the well-known political commentary blog Daily Kos. With a membership of over 125,000 registered readers and postings by prominent Democratic political figures including Jimmy Carter, John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi, Daily Kos currently attracts 600,000 daily visitors.

Moulitsas parlayed his web prominence into a regular Newsweek column and has co-authored the book Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics. He placed third in a Forbe’s list of web celebrities and ranked 26th in a PC Magazine list of the Most Important People on the Web.

85. Janus Friis

A self-described “disruptive Internet entrepreneur,” Janus Friis is the co-founder (with Niklas Zennstrom) of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) KaZaA network and went on with Zennstrom to co-found Internet telephony company Skype, investment company Atomico and P2P video distribution system Joost.

Along with Zennstrom, Friis is considered to be behind many of the most significant technological shifts on the Internet and has been named to lists of important contributors compiled by cnn.com and Time magazine.

Friis blogs occasionally at janusfriis.net and is frequently profiled in both online and print media.

84. Jack Ma

Jack Ma was one of the first Chinese to realize the potential of the Web. As soon as he managed to grab an Internet connection, he started building websites for Chinese companies.

In 1999 he hit a home run founding Alibaba.com. The site works as a business to business marketplace, and it became successful in connecting foreign companies to Chinese ones. The popularity of the website grew so much that in 2005 Yahoo! decided to purchase 40% of it, offering in exchange US$1 billion plus the assets of Yahoo! China.

In November of 2007 Alibaba.com was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, raising a total of US$1.5 billion. It was the second largest IPO for an Internet company, after Google.

83. Bram Cohen

The motion picture industry watched the havoc that Napster and other sharing networks wreaked on the music business and realized the same thing could happen to them when technology and bandwidth caught up to the much larger video file sizes. Bram Cohen co-founded BitTorrent in 2002 and the game was on.

Cohen’s BitTorrent protocol facilitates distribution of large files by breaking them into smaller pieces, with multiple recipients and sharers all swapping file bits instead of a single host server distributing an entire file. From a copyright enforcement perspective, BitTorrent means tracking and shutting down a single file uploader has little or no impact on file availability.

82. Philip Rosedale

Philip Rosedale (also known by his Second Life avatar’s name Philip Linden) is the founder and CEO of Linden Lab, creator of virtual world Second Life. Second Life claims to have over 2 million subscribers and has become an important point of contact for real-life personalities and organizations that establish a Second Life presence to interact with subscribers.

With the runaway success of Second life, Rosedale’s contribution to online society has been noted in Business 2.0, USA Today and Time magazine. Rosedale’s career prior to founding Linden Labs includes serving as Vice President and CTO at RealNetworks, where he launched a series of computer media products including RealVideo.

81. Steve Pavlina

The founder, CEO and software developer for award winning shareware game company Dexterity Software, Steve Pavlina was originally known for developing engaging computer games and for his work on behalf of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP).

In 2006, Pavlina turned from game development to his blog on personal development, StevePavlina.com . On his site, Pavlina describes himself as “perhaps the most intensely growth-oriented individual you will ever meet,” and claims his site to be the world’s most popular personal development site, with over 1.8 million visitors per month. In a 2007 interview, Pavlina notes that his blogging generates nearly $40,000 per month in earnings.

80. Gina Trapani

Gina Trapani is a tech writer, author and freelance web developer. Her most visible role is as Lead Editor for Gawker Media’s personal productivity blog Lifehacker, a role that has also spawned the books Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better and Lifehacker: 88 Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day.

Lifehacker is one of the most popular blogs on the web, with its 2006 readership estimated at 7 million page views per month and over 100,000 RSS subscribers; Lifehacker has received accolades from CNET, Wired, Time and others.

Articles written by Trapani have appeared in prominent publications, including Wired, Popular Science, PC World and MacWorld, and she has been profiled by the likes of The Wall Street Journal.

79. Anil Dash

An early blogger, Anil Dash is Vice President and Chief Evangelist for blogging software giant Six Apart. This position involves helping popularize blogging through appearances at various events and promoting Six Apart products, including Movable Type and TypePad.

Dash gained some public notice by winning a 2004 contest to take the top position in a Google search for the term “nigritude ultramarine”; while many competitors resorted to extreme search optimization methods, Dash simply posted a blog post on the subject and asked readers to link to his post. His writing on web culture has been featured in Wired and the Washington Post and he has appeared as a guest on a variety of shows. Anil Dash blogs at dashes.com.

78. Brad Fitzpatrick

A software engineer, Fitzpatrick (or bradfitz) is best known as the creator of LiveJournal, a blogging virtual community with accompanying Open Source server software; part of his Danga Interactive company, which he sold to blogging software company Six Apart in 2005.

Fitzpatrick took the position of Chief Architect with Six Apart, but left the company in 2007 for a position with Google. A supporter of the Open Source movement, Fitzpatrick is responsible for the development of other projects including MogileFS, Djabberd and Perlbal. Fitzpatrick’s web site bradfitz.com serves as a central hub for his presence on the web, including FaceBook, MySpace and Twitter pages.

77. Veronica Belmont

Veronica Belmont is a journalist, media personality and host or co-host of a slew of technology industry-themed podcasts, shows and videos. She was also named to a Sexiest Geek list.

Belmont originally joined CNET as a producer and sound engineer, but soon grew beyond her background role and began making appearances, eventually co-hosting CNET podcasts including MP3 Insider and CRAVE Gadget Blog. Leaving CNET for Mahalo in 2007, she hosted her own video show, Malaho Daily.

In 2008, she left Malaho for Revision3, where she is now co-host of Tekzilla. Besides her full-time gigs, Belmont has been in high demand as a guest on other shows and podcasts, putting in dozens of appearances over the past several years.

76. Matt Mullenweg

One of the individuals who has been quietly enabling and strengthening the presence of blogging since 2002, Matt Mullenweg has been involved with a host of blogging services, tools and software companies, and has been at the forefront of a battle to curb splogs (computer generated blog comments that link to fake, advertising blogs).

He was a co-founder of WordPress, The Global Multimedia Protocols Group, Akismet (a splog-blocking service), worked for CNET, and most recently, co-founded the company Automattic. Mullenweg was named to PC World’s 50 Most Important People on the Web list in 2007. His blog can be read at ma.tt.

75. Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse has proved that bloggers can be successful not only from a readership perspective, but also financially. ProBlogger and Digital Photography School, his digital photography site, are estimated to generate over 50,000 page views per day between them and generate in excess of $20,000 per month in advertising revenue.

ProBlogger, which offers blogging tips and advice, is often cited as one of the web’s top blogs. Rowse outlined his methods as co-author of the book ProBlogger: Secrets For Blogging Your Way To A Six-Figure Income, as well as teaching a similarly-themed course. Rowse is also co-founder and VP of Blogger Training for blog network b5media.

74. Ze Frank

Hosea Jan Frank (aka Ze Frank), is performance artist, famous for his year-long, The Show With Ze Frank, daily video blog. Frank gained recognition in 2001, when “How To Dance Properly,” created as a party invitation for his friends, became a runaway viral video, generating millions of hits.

The Show With Ze Frank received thousands of visitors daily and featured a Friday segment where Frank performed routines scripted by viewers via a wiki. Frank was recognized with a 2002 “webby” award and recognition for The Show at the 2007 SXSW festival.

He’s received coverage in the mainstream media and multiple invitations to speak at the TED conference. Frank’s blog, zefrank.com remains a popular site for his humorous commentary and impressive collection of links to online games, videos and time wasters.

73. Merlin Mann

Writer and productivity guru Merlin Mann has carved a niche for himself as a motivational “productivity” speaker and a dispenser of advice through his popular 43 Folders site.

Concentrating on personal productivity and “life hacks,” 43 Folders draws an estimated 2.5 million unique visitors per year and its RSS feed is downloaded 100,000 times daily. Mann has written articles for technology and cultural publications including Make, Wired, MacWorld and Popular Science and contributes to productivity and Mac-oriented podcasts.

His productivity talks appeal to the technology crowd and he’s been a featured speaker and influential companies such as Apple, Yahoo! and Google. (Photo by Graham)

72. John C. Dvorak

John Dvorak is probably responsible for instigating more Mac vs. Windows flame wars than any other pundit thanks to years of inflammatory and generally anti-Mac posts. Dvorak has been a force in technology and computer commentary for decades, including stints as Editor at Infoworld; columns with Forbes, MacUser, PC World; and his current column at PC Magazine. He has also authored a dozen books and written for numerous newspapers.

His personal blog still hits on technology-themed topics, but he also picks up on pop culture and general interest stories. Besides his writing gigs, Dvorak contributes to a number of video podcasts including Cranky Geeks and This Week in Tech (which claims 500,000 listeners), hosted Silicon Spin on TechTV and is a frequent technology commentator on CNBC.

71. Steve Rubel

Steve Rubel is a Public Relations expert (or “digital marketer,” as he describes himself) and an evangelist for using corporate blogs as an effective PR medium. His own blog, Micro Persuasion, was launched in 2004 and offers thoughts and advice about technology’s impact on business, culture, media and marketing.

Rubel gained some public attention with the Wal-Marting Across America blog, which followed a couple who drove an RV across the US , parking the vehicle overnight in Wal-Mart parking lots. Rubel is currently SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital and his successful leverage of coporate blogging has led to recognition in technology and business-related media, including Forbes.com, PC Magazine and Media Magazine.

70. Nick Denton

In the blogsphere, there are a multitude of personal blogs, corporate blogs and there are the blogs belonging to a parent media group. Gawker Media, founded and owned by Nick Denton, is one of those umbrella online media organizations and its stable of blogs include some of the most popular on the web: Gizmodo, io9, Consumerist, Lifehacker, and Gawker, among others.

Denton took over as the Managing Editor of flagship blog Gawker.com in 2008, following a tumultuous year that saw multiple editors leave. Gawker, which is a New York entertainment and culture-focused blog, has also seen controversy over its “Gawker Stalker” feature, a GoogleMaps mashup that plots the location of celebrities as spotted and reported by Gawker readers.

69. Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark dealt many publications a knock-out punch with the launch of his Craigslist web site. While traditional newspapers rely on classified advertising as a major source of revenue, Craiglist allows users to post ads for free, charging only for job postings.

With a presence in most major cities in the US and significant worldwide growth, Craigslist has become the market leader in classified advertising and one of the highest traffic web sites in the world (reportedly 9 billion page views per month). eBay purchased a stake in Craigslist in 2004, but the two companies engaged in legal action against each other in 2008, trading accusations over unfair competition. Newark is an advocate of keeping web services free, remains active in the day to day operations of Craigslist and blogs regularly.

68. Niklas Zennstrom

Niklas Zennstrom is a leader in the field of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) web technologies. His first major venture was as co-founder of the KaZaA (or kaazaa) Network, a technology which had significant impact on enabling the file sharing (especially of MP3s) that had become one of the Internet’s big things; the company attracted its fair share of copyright-related lawsuits.

Zennstrom is also co-founder of Internet telephony company Skype, which was purchased in 2005 for over $2.5 billion by eBay. Zennstrom is now involved in his latest start-up, Joost, an advertising-supported P2P video distribution system for which Zennstrom has been negotiating content deals with numerous entertainment companies, including MTV, Paramount, CBS and the National Hockey League.

67. Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman was the President and CEO of eBay from March 1998 to March 2008. Under her command, the online auctions website managed to maintain its leadership, despite the attack of other Internet companies like Amazon and Yahoo!.

Whitman also contributed to the successful acquisition of PayPal in 2003, and to the somewhat successful acquisition of Skype in 2005.

Her networth is estimated at over US$1 billion, and she made it to the Time”s 100 most important people list on several years.

66. Steve Gibson

The Internet is full of shadowy figures who constantly test the vulnerability of sites and data. Steve Gibson is an expert on these people, the system hackers and software crackers. He is a Contributing Editor to InfoWorld magazine and founder of Gibson Research Corporation (GRC), a software development firm that develops specialized tools for data recovery and Internet security.

Gibson’s OptOut software, released in 2000, was one of the first adware removal programs. He has appeared frequently on tech-based podcasts and TV shows with Leo Laporte, including co-hosting the Security Now! podcast. Some of Gibson’s claims about computer and system security vulnerabilities have been downplayed by other experts, with occasional accusations that Gibson may have been inflating their significance.

65. Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman was on the web scene early in the game, and has been posting about web design since 1995, most notably on A List Apart.

Zeldman was an early proponent of a standards-based, cross browser approach to web design and through the Web Standards Project (which he co-founded), helped to pressure Microsoft and Netscape into supporting standards in their browsers. His lectures and books have helped to increase awareness of standards and to train a generation of web designers, contributing to an improved web browsing experience for everyone.

Zeldman’s blog, The Daily Report is a good read for his commentary on web design and technology topics.

64. Mitch Kapor

As co-founder, President and CEO of Lotus development Corp., Mitchell Kapor was one of the people who helped make the personal computer an integral part of the business office.

In 1983, he created Lotus 1-2-3, the dominant spreadsheet software that rapidly made Lotus one of the world’s biggest software companies. Kapor’s sphere of influence spread to the Internet. He was a co-founder of digital right organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), serving as its Chairman until 1994.

He has chaired the Mozilla Foundation and belongs to the Advisory Board for the Wikipedia Foundation. His web site includes lists of his current projects as well as an archive of his articles and publications; he shut down his blog in 2006.

63. Steve Case

Steve Case is a web pioneer and philanthropist. Case was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of America Online (AOL), once the world’s largest Internet company and the gateway to e-mail and web access used by millions of subscribers. After AOL merged with Time Warner in 2001, Chase became chairman of the new company AOL Time Warner, stepping down in 2003.

The merger came at the height of the dot-com meltdown as well as dwindling AOL influence and has generally been considered a disappointment. Case has turned much of his attention to philanthropic causes through his Case Foundation organization, although his 2005 start-up, Revolution (primarily heath care and wellness-focused), shows he is still active in the business world.

62. Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr is a writer and scholar who has raised waves in the technology and Web 2.0 worlds with his pointed criticism; a 2007 Wired article referred to him as “high tech’s Captain Buzzkill.”

Carr uses his blog Rough Type to reach out to a wide audience, posting his thoughts on IT service as a standardized commodity, the risk of volunteer Web 2.0 efforts (Wikipedia being a favorite target) supplanting higher quality, “professional” versions and his fear of Google’s influence on future culture.

A former Executive Editor with The Harvard Business Review, Carr’s books include Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage and The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google.

61. Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer is the Vice President of Search Product & User Experience at Google, Inc. She has led the product management group through a number of key product releases, including Google Earth and Google Desktop and it is her responsibility to decide which incubating projects should be brought to the attention of Google’s founders and when products are ready for public introduction.

Mayer tends to be one of Google’s most visible executives, since product launches typically involve appearances at conferences and media interviews. One of Google’s first 20 employees and their first female software engineer, Mayer has been profiled in publications such as Red Herring, Business Week, Fortune and Business 2.0.

60. Frank Warren

Frank Warren’s claim to fame is the weblog phenomena PostSecret. Warren started his online PostSecret project as an experimental blog that asked readers to send in a postcard which they were to decorate themselves on one side, and write a secret they have never revealed previously on the other. Warren then displayed the postcards.

PostSecret was unique in that it wasn’t a blog in the traditional sense, but more a social experiment/ viral art project. Comments weren’t even enabled on the blog until two years after it launched. The success of PostSecret brought it media attention, a collection of “bloggies” in the 2006 and 2007 Weblog Awards and led to the publication of four related books, including A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book, released in 2007.

59. Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky is an author, professor and consultant who specializes in the social and economic impacts of Internet technologies, including the rise of decentralized (e.g. wireless) services. Shirky’s columns about the world wide web have appeared in a wide range of influential publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Computerworld and The Harvard Business Review.

He is a frequent interview subject and conference speaker on web culture and was a guest on The Colbert Report. Shirky.com, his blog, is a source of frequent posts about subjects of interest, including P2P (peer to peer), Open Source and social networking. Shirky’s most recent book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations was released in 2008.

58. Joi Ito

Joi Ito is a noted technology columnist, venture capitalist and an influential proponent of social networking technologies. Based in Japan , Ito has written for a long list of publications, including the New York Times, Mac World Japan and Wired. As a venture capitalist, he was an investor in emerging social networking and blogging sites, including Flickr, Six Apart, Technorati and SocialText.

Ito is currently the CEO of Creative Commons, and has served on the Board of Directors for other governing bodies including ICANN, the Mozilla Foundation and the Open Source Initiative (OSI). An active participant in Web 2.0 culture, Ito is a presence on many social networking sites as well as posting regularly to his blog at joi.ito.com.

57. Joel Spolsky

Starting his programming career at Microsoft, Joel Spolsky left in 2000 to co-found Fog Creek Software (producer of FogBugz), a company that focused as much on ensuring that its operations remain software development-focused rather than marketing dominated as it did on growth.

The company remains successful and Spolsky credits this to keeping Softcreek a company that is attractive to software developers. Spolsky’s opinions of software development and the management (or mis-management) of software and technology companies on his blog joelonsoftware struck a nerve with software engineers and employees of technology-focused companies worldwide and they have made his posts a must-read.

He has also written a handful of books, including Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky”s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent.

56. David Filo

David Filo co-founded Yahoo! in 1995 with partner Jerry Wang. While Wang went on to become CEO, Filo’s responsibility as “Chief Yahoo” is to direct technical operations of the Yahoo! web sites.

Filo’s teams provide much of Yahoo!’s revenues, through innovations such as push advertising, banners bars and button ads as well as holding considerable influence over platform, infrastructure and architecture.

Together with Yang, Filo remains one of the most public faces of the Yahoo! management team, although he tends to stay in the background where possible. Naturally, as a co-founder of Yahoo!, Filo is a billionaire, profiled frequently in technology publications and is in demand to speak at web and technology conferences.

55. Chad Hurley

Chad Hurley is the graphic designer and user interface expert who designed PayPal’s logo.

While working at PayPal, he met several associates (Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) and the three of them eventually left to form online video hosting site YouTube. As CEO of YouTube, Hurley was largely responsible for its tremendous growth and oversaw the sale of his company to Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion.

Hurley has been the subject of numerous technology stories, including stories in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time and Business 2.0 (which included him on its 50 People Who Matter Now list).

54. Marc Andreessen

Few people can claim to have had the impact on the early development of the world wide web that Marc Andreessen has. He was co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-adopted web browser (and which was used as the basis for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser).

Andreessen went on to co-found Netscape Communications, which promoted its own Netscape Navigator web browser. Although Netscape initially had the upper hand over Microsoft’s, that situation eventually reversed with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer becoming the dominant browser in use today.

Andreessen left Netscape shortly after it was sold to AOL in 1999 and currently invests in start-up companies like Digg, Plazes, Twitter and social network platform Ning, frequently posting about his ventures on his blog.

53. Brian Lam

Gizmodo, part of the Gawker Media network, is one of the top gadget blogs on the web; it’s currently engaged in a bitter rivalry with Engadget, a competing site created by a former Gizmodo editor. Brian Lam is Editor-In-Chief at Gizmodo and he’s steering it through an interesting transition involving the struggle between cool and from the hip blogging versus old school journalism.

At the same time that Gizmodo is making headway in a struggle to compete against traditional media for access to interview subjects and trade shows, Gizmodo staff are still pulling pranks (for example, turning off exhibitors’ display monitors via a remote control at the 2008 CES show) that result in organizers banning them and other media dismissing them as “real” journalists.

52. Adam Curry

Adam Curry is a media crossover star who first gained fame as a veejay on MTV, hosting Headbangers Ball and Top 20 Countdown. After MTV, he moved into the relatively new realm of web entrepreneurship, co-founding the site OnRamp, which was sold to THINK (with Curry remaining on as CTO).

His biggest claim to fame is being among the first to recognize the potential in podcasting. He produces Daily Source Code, one of the first (and longest running at over 750 episodes) podcasts and has been referred to at times as the “Podfather.” He continues to promote his podcasting ventures through conferences, radio shows and even in the virtual world, Second Life.

51. Terry Semel

A long-serving executive with Time Warner, Terry Semel left to become Chairman and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. His tenure at Yahoo! was considered by many people to have hurt the company and he resigned after 6 years.

Among the low points of Semel’s reign were a failed negotiation to purchase Google before that company rose to market dominance, his approval to release Yahoo! User information to the Chinese government for the purpose of prosecuting dissidents and a compensation package that netted him well over half a billion dollars over his term during a time when Yahoo! was felt by investors to have seriously underperformed.

50. Steve Chen

Talk about being on the leading edge, Steve Chen has managed to be involved with three of the web’s hottest companies just as they began to take off, one of them as a co-founder. An employee of PayPal and Facebook, he and several co-workers left to start the online video sharing site YouTube.

Chen remains Chief Technology Officer of YouTube, which he and his partners sold to Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion. As a YouTube co-founder, Chen has changed the way media is distributed and viewed and was named to the 2007 Time 100 List and Business 2.0’s list of 50 People Who Matter Now.

49. John Chow

John Chow has managed to become one of the most controversial figures in blogging, thanks to his website Johnchow.com.

Chow had his initial success with TheTechZone.com, a massive (10,000+ pages) computer hardware review site that he claims draws 200,000 page views per day, but decided to branch out and launched the site where he began doling out advice on how to make money online

Most of Chow’s tips were related to advertising, linking, and monetizing content, but he began to veer into dangerous territory: gaming Google. In response to Chow advocating violating their guidelines, Google deliberately buried Chow’s website in their page rankings. Currently, he makes around $30,000 monthly from his blog alone.

48. John Battelle

Journalist and entrepreneur John Battelle is the CEO and Chairman of Federated Media, the online advertising company that represents such well-known blogs and websites as Boing Boing, Ars Technica, and Dooce among its large fold.

Battelle’s background includes being a co-founding Editor with Wired magazine, as well as stints with MacUser magazine and the LA Times. He is the founder and Executive Producer of the Web 2.0 conference and still contributes to his own blog, Searchblog, where he writes about search engine news and about his thoughts on general web and technology happenings. His ongoing contribution to entrepreneurship and online media has been recognized by the likes of Ernst and Young, Advertising Age, and PCWorld.

47. Om Malik

Om Malik is a journalist and blogger known for his coverage of the technology and computing fields. Starting as a writer for Forbes magazine and later Forbes.com, he was also a senior writer for new technologies/venture capital magazine Red Herring and then took a position as a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine.

Where Malik really hit the radar, though, was when he started his Web 2.0-themed blog GigaOM under his Giga Omni Media umbrella. GigaOM claims readership numbers in the half-million per month range and is one of the world’s top-ranked blogs, with recognition of its influence coming from the likes of PC Magazine, CNET, and Technorati.

46. John Markoff

A technology journalist with a long background in tech writing (Infoworld, BYTE, San Francisco Examiner, New York Times, and others), John Markoff found himself at the center of a media storm over his chronicle of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick in the 1990s.

Markhoff had written articles about Mitnick while he was on the run from the police, then co-authored the book Takedown, which critics accused of exaggerating or even inventing parts of the Mitnick affair. Continuing to cover the computer and technology fields for the NY Times, Markhoff has earned some ill will in the blogging community with his comparison of blogs to the amateur CB radio fad of the seventies.

45. Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan is another one of those ‘web celebrities who aren’t really well known to the general public. But as a search engine guru, Sullivan is well-regarded by industry insiders, and his opinion is highly valued by web masters, web-related media, and engineers with companies like Google.

His Search Engine Watch website became a dominant collection of search engine optimization techniques and he also ran an industry conference called Search Engine Watch.

In 2006, Sullivan left SEW (which he had sold in 2005) to create a new search engine news and information site called Search Engine Land.

44. Jason Calacanis

Jason Calacanis is a tech industry veteran. His mid-nineties publication, The Silicon Alley Reporter, grew from a photocopied handout to a 300-page account of Silicon Valley happenings. After the dot-com crash, Calcanis turned to blogging, and with the help of an investment from Mark Cuban, co-founded Weblogs, Inc. Weblogs had some very popular blogs under its umbrella, including Engadget.

After selling Weblogs to AOL Time Warner (remaining onboard as CEO), Calcanis became General Manager for Netscape’s website, where he recruited top posters to popular sites such as Reddit, Digg, and Flickr. His latest venture, Malaho.com, is a controversial “human-powered” search engine that has generated considerable curiosity as well a very public blog post-fuelled spat with Dave Winer.

43. Matt Drudge

Another alumnus of Time magazine’s 2006 “100 Most Influential People” list, Matt Drudge turned an e-mailed celebrity gossip hobby into a web-based scandal site credited with scooping traditional media sources on some of the biggest stories of the decade. In 1998, The Drudge Report was the first news outlet to break the Monica Lewinski story, a scandal that tainted the final years of Bill Clinton’s presidency.

Since then, The Drudge Report is frequently cited by other media outlets and continues to post celebrity arrest mug shots, court documents, political coverage and breaking news stories. The Drudge Report expanded into radio and television shows of the same name, but Matt is currently focused on his website.

42. Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor is a well-known technology consultant and author. His website, askdavetaylor.com, is a wide-ranging (everything from Internet basics, to Mac or UNIX, Web design and newbie questions) tech support forum, where readers submit a question and Dave Taylor answers it.

Taylor has expanded his range beyond traditional web technology into topics as diverse as video games, iPods, and even the writing business. Dave notes that askdavetaylor.com generated nearly 12 million visitors for 2007 and tech-related “how to” searches on Google frequently return askdavetaylor.com as a top-ranked choice. Taylor also runs two other popular blogs, The Business Blog at Intuitive.com and his Attachment Parenting blog.

41. Kevin Mitnick

When it comes to Internet-related celebrity figures, there are the famous and the infamous. Kevin Mitnick definitely falls into the latter category. A convicted computer hacker (he spent 5 years in prison), Mitnick’s method was social engineering rather than brute force hacking, meaning he relied on guesswork around people’s passwords based on research (for example), rather than running automated hacking tools.

Mitnick fought Internet access restrictions on his release and has since launched a computer security firm. His website is a popular target for hackers, with the ability to deface it considered a sign of hacking prowess. In his most recent brush with web notoriety, online community The Well turned down Mitnick’s application for membership, an event that spawned a flurry of posts in the blogosphere.

40. James Gosling

James Gosling is a Canadian software developer and Computer Science Ph.D. working for Sun Microsystems, holding the position of Vice President and Sun Fellow.

Gosling is generally recognized as one of the creators of the Java programming language, credited with the original Java language design and implementation of its original compiler and virtual machine. Gosling comments on the current state of Java on his blog at Sun. In terms of web culture, Gosling is a frequent interview subject on Java-related topics, but his main contribution is technical; as a creator and evangelist for Java, he remains well behind the scenes to the general public, though no less important than the other web celebrities.

39. Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo, aka “lockergnome,” is a well-known computer system support guru and former TechTV host. He runs the Lockergnome weblog and a group of tech support sites. Lockergnome hosts an annual alternative technical conference known as Gnomedex, which typically focuses on cutting-edge trends in online computing, including social networking and technical capabilities.

Pirilllo’s own website chrispirillo.com features an eclectic mix of opinions, technical support advice, and tips, coupons & videos. Pirillo is an evangelist for various web technologies including blogging, online video, RSS, Podcasting, and Google AdSense, prolifically employing all of these on his websites. Pirillo has become known for his catchphrase “we’ll ‘E’ ya later,” which he accompanies with an “E” hand gesture when on video.

38. Leo Laporte

Leo Laporte is a media powerhouse in the field of technology. His career includes writing as a columnist with leading industry publications and publishing a series of computing-related books including 101 Computer Answers You Need To Know and Poor Leo’s Computer Almanac.

But by far his greatest influence and visibility has been through hosting or co-hosting a long list of TV and radio technology shows, including The Lab With Leo Laporte, The Tech Guy, Internet!, The Screen Savers and Dvorak on Computers. He also features guest appearances on a wide range of shows such as Live with Regis and Kelly and World News Now.

Laporte is also the creator of the most successful podcast network on the web: This Week in Tech.

37. Glenn Reynolds

With his 2006 book, An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government and Other Goliaths, law professor, Popular Mechanics Contributing Editor, and blogger Glenn Reynolds put on paper his theory that technology has enabled ordinary people to grab a pulpit and make their opinions heard, and that “journalism is becoming an activity, not simply a profession.”

Reynolds’ Instapundit blog has become one of the most widely read political weblogs, with its popularity and Reynolds’ efforts to promote citizen blogging earning him the knick name of “The BlogFather.”

36. Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington has been involved with a number of high-tech start-ups. He was the co-founder of Zip.ca, Pool.com, Achex, and edgio. His greatest impact on the world of Internet, technology, and entrepreneurship is through his blog site TechCrunch.

Arrington’s influence is frequently acknowledged by the media, including nods from Wired, Forbes, and Time, which referred to him as a “cybermogul” on their 2008 Time 100 List. With a vast network of industry contacts and information gleaned from research and socializing, Arrington’s opinion or mention of a new website on one of the TechCrunch affiliated blogs or podcasts can make or break the site.

35. Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen is a tireless campaigner for improving website usability. He has published multiple books on the subject, holds patents related to Internet usability methods, and has had a significant influence on website design.

Nielsen’s push for usability over appearance tends to shy away from fancy graphics, Flash-heavy, and visually appealing sites, frequently putting him at odds with the graphic design community. Nielsen’s website, Useit reflects his design principles, relying solely on text and on his Altertbox columns, mailed out since 1996 to subscribers, discussing current issues in web usability.

Nielsen is also known for “Nielsen’s Law” which ultimately points out that since home network speed increases at a slower rate than computer processor speed, user Internet experience is tied to network bandwidth.

34. Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is CEO and co-founder of social networking site Facebook.com. With Facebook’s success, he’s become an extremely wealthy young man, at least on paper. Based on a Microsoft investment of $246 million for a 1.6% stake in the company, Zuckerberg is one of the world’s youngest billionaires.

Attempts to increase revenue opportunities for Facebook have raised privacy concerns, and Zuckerberg has had to spend increasing amounts of time apologizing to users, sometimes via his blog on Facebook. Zuckerberg has also faced legal action over claims he lifted the Facebook idea and possibly source code from another project he was involved with at college. Despite his current woes, there is no dispute that Zuckerberg has proved that social networking is among the hottest trends on the net.

33. Marc Benioff

Marc Benioff is the Chairman and CEO of CRM provider, Salesforce.com. Eschewing the role of traditional packaged software-based models, Benioff is an avid promoter of software as an on-demand service (or SAS).

His books The Business of Changing the World and Compassionate Capitalism reflect his belief that business and technology can contribute to positive social change, a belief he backed with the launch of the Salesforce.com Foundation (which donates 1% of profits, 1% of equity and 1% of employee time to charitable causes). Benioff’’s contributions to both technology and social change have been recognized by awards from many publications and organizations, including Business Week, Fortune, and eWeek.

32. Jerry Yang

One of the richest men in the world, Jerry Yang is the CEO and co-founder of Yahoo! Inc.

Starting as a web portal, then adding e-mail capabilities and incorporating Alta Vista’s search engine, Yahoo! is now one of the leading Internet brands. According to Yahoo! their web portal receives more traffic than any other website on the Internet.

In recent months, Yang has had to deal with two significant controversies around his company: allegations that Yahoo! had provided Chinese police with IP addresses used by dissidents to send an e-mail via a Yahoo! account (resulting in the dissidents’ arrest), and most recently, a failed bid by Microsoft to buy Yahoo! for over $45 billion.

31. Dave Winer

Known as an opinionated and outspoken proponent of web-based technology and culture, Dave Winer is the founder of UserLand Software, former owner of the blog-hosting site Weblogs.com, a former Editor with Wired magazine, and creator of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) 2.0.

Winer is credited with being a pioneer in the development of other important web technologies, including SOAP, XML-RPC, and Podcasting. His DaveNet essays, a popular forerunner to blogs, were published regularly from 1994 through 2004 and distributed to readers via e-mail.

30. Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis comes from a journalism and entertainment background. A former television critic with TV Guide and People, he was the creator of Entertainment Weekly as well as editing or publishing columns with numerous newspapers and journals.

Moving his focus online, Jarvis was President and Creative Director of Advance.net and assisted the New York Times with the development of their About.com site. His blog, Buzzmachine, focuses on media and news items with an emphasis on bringing opinion back to news.

Visitors to Buzzmachine doubled in 2005 after an infamous incident where Jarvis posted an open letter to Dell CEO Michael Dell, complaining about the “lemon” computer he had purchased and Dell’s “appalling” customer service.

29. Jonathan Schwartz

As President and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz has a great deal of influence in the world of technology.

On first arriving at Sun, he was involved in the marketing of Java, the software that has become a leading development platform for web-based and mobile applications. Schwartz believes that society has begun to transition from information consumption to a participatory stage where people create ideas and content as well.

He uses his own blog extensively to discuss all things Sun, including corporate updates, interesting projects and interviews with employees, giving the public an unprecedented look at the inner workings of a large corporation.

28. Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly is an author, columnist, and “Senior Maverick” (and Founding Executive Editor) of one of the leading cultural institutions of online culture: Wired magazine.

He was also involved in the launch of the online community The Well. Kelly’s book Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World was a required read for actors in the seminal cyber film The Matrix, and an interview with Kelly is included on some DVD release versions of the movie. Recently, Kelly co-founded the Linnean Enterprise, an ambitious (25 year and $5 billion) project to identify, describe and create an online catalog of all living species.

27. Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson is the President and co-founder of the popular social networking website MySpace. He gained public fame as the most known face on MySpace because his name appeared as a default “friend” on all newly created accounts; at this point in time (July 2008), Tom has over 232,000,000 MySpace friends.

Anderson’s account was also used for service announcements, only adding to his notoriety. As a result of all this exposure, Anderson became an easy target for parody and has been lampooned by comics, singers, TV shows, writers, and artists.

Rupurt Murdoch’s purchase of MySpace for $580 million probably helps Anderson get past the ribbing.

26. Tim O’Reilly

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, a company known for publishing computer and technology-related books. Working closely with the tech community, O’Reilly is often at the leading edge of technological shifts, leveraging his access to push his agenda of “changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.”

O’Reilly Media hosted a 1998 meeting that became known as the Open Source Summit, and a 2005 conference hosted by O’Reilly brought the term Web 2.0 to the front. Tim O’Reilly has been a long-time supporter of the Open Source and Free Software movements, an involvement that led to a dispute with Amazon.com over that company’s patent on the concept of “one-click” shopping.

25. Vint Cerf

A former Chair of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), Vinton (Vint) Cerf is credited as being one of the founders of the Internet, even frequently referred to as “the father of the Internet.”

While at DARPA (US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Cert co-designed the TCPI/IP protocols that underlie Internet architecture and as Vice President of MCI Digital Information Services, Cerf led the team that created MCI Mail, the first commercial Internet mail service.

His contributions toward the Internet have earned him a myriad of honors and recognition, including the Turing Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Currently, Cerf is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist with Google.

24. Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts is a software engineer working with the quality group at Google, where he currently heads up the Webspam Team. Cutts is known for introducing the Google Webmaster Guideline and his efforts to crack down on the proliferation of link spam. He is a celebrity engineer in web circles, helping webmasters to understand how Google ranks their sites, while also leading a fight against spammers.

Cutts was the center of some controversy in 2006 when he allegedly admitted to posting to web-related sites under the identity of GoogleGuy. Cutts’ blog is a mix of Google and search engine-themed material combined with general interest posts.

23. Arianna Huffington

The Huffington Post, a liberal news, commentary and blog site launched in 2005, is a frequently cited media reference thanks to co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington and her team of writers and contributors. Posts include material from politicians and celebrities seeking an outlet to voice their opinions.

Author of a dozen books, Huffington’s recent output doesn’t pull any punches, including 2004’s: Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America. A Huffington-led group’s 2003 anti-SUV campaign, comparing driving an SUV to funding terrorism, helped to cement her reputation and she continues to make appearances as a commentator on television as well as co-hosting several radio shows.

Arianna Huffington was named to Time magazine’s List of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in 2006.

22. Cory Doctorow

A sought-out commentator on popular culture and technology, Cory Doctorow is a Canadian author and blogger, well known as an outspoken activist/agitator for liberalizing copyright laws and digital rights management.

Doctorow spent four years working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation before leaving to pursue a full-time writing career in 2006. He co-edits the popular blog Boing Boing and maintains his own Craphound site as well.

Cory Doctorow released several of his science fiction novels under Creative Commons licenses, including 2003’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. A columnist with Wired, Make, and Popular Science, Doctorow also contributes to various other online and print media outlets.

21. Jeff Bezos

Named Time magazine’s 1999 Person of the Year, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, steered it through the dot-com stock collapse of the late 1990s by pursuing an unlikely strategy of slow growth and turned the company into an Internet retail giant.

From its beginning in 1994 as an online book retailer, Bezos (President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board) has grown Amazon.com into a diversified outfit that not only dominates online book sales, but is also a major player in the sales of DVDs, CDs, video games, toys, and virtually any other commodity. Amazon has continued to expand by offering music and video download services, affiliate relationships, self-publishing for authors, and even its own e-Book reader hardware platform, the Kindle.

20. Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose was well-known in technology circles thanks to his work on TechTV and G4, including hosting Attack of The Show!. He has been involved in the podcasting movement, including the highly successful Diggnation, which claims 250,000 downloads per episode, and appearances on This Week In Tech.

By far, though, Rose is best known for his incredibly popular Web 2.0 site digg.com. Digg, a social bookmarking site, cost Rose a couple thousand dollars when first launched in 2004 and quickly grew to be a Web 2.0 success story, landing him on the front cover of Business Week magazine in April, 2006. Rose’s most recent ventures include the social networking site pownce.com, which went live in January of 2008, and the online video network Revision3.

19. Robert Scoble

Considered to be the person for whom the term “spokesblogger” was coined, Robert Scoble was a successful blogger who joined Microsoft in 2003 and used his popular personal blog scobleizer.com to post comments that were often more favorable toward Microsoft than commentary found on other sites.

Scoble left Microsoft in 2006, joining Podtech.net as Vice President of Media Development, leaving in 2008 to join Fast Company as a video blogger. Scoble has helped prove the value of blogging as an interactive platform and has also effectively illustrated blogging’s benefit in customer relationships. By pursuing video blogging, Scoble may be on the leading edge of the next evolutionary step in blogging.

18. Lawrence Lessig

Founder of the Creative Commons and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, law professor Lawrence Lessig has become a central figure in technology copyright, as a critic of restrictive software patents, copyright laws, and wireless spectrum ownership.

Putting his money where his mouth is, Lessig’s books The Future of Ideas, Free Culture and Code: Version 2.0 have been made available as free downloads under a Creative Commons license. In 2008, a Facebook group and website began a “draft Lessig for congress” push, a suggestion that Lessig has resisted, arguing that a rush campaign with himself as a candidate would hurt the Change Congress movement he supports.

17. Guy Kawasaki

Once best known as a Macintosh marketing guru, Guy Kawasaki put in several stints with Apple, first as a Mac Evangelist and then as an Apple Fellow. As an author, he has been a columnist and published eight books, including Rules For Revolutionaries.

Kawasaki’s blog, How To Change The World, is a popular read for his thoughts on technology, business, Web 2.0, and other topics and includes a job posting board. As Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, Kawasaki has turned his attention to venture capital and funding start-up firms.

Kawasaki gained notoriety in 2007 when he announced a new web 2.0 site, Truemors, that became an experiment around how inexpensively a web business can be launched (Kawaski claimed Truemors cost just over $12k), although it hasn’t quite lived up to the considerable hype.

16. Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier has accomplished the unlikely feat of bringing cryptography and computer security into pop culture; he’s been mentioned in movies (The DaVinci Code) and the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and is in high demand in media and government circles as a security expert.

The founder and CTO of computer network security firm BT Counterpane, Schneier have created several cryptographic algorithms and written a number of books about both cryptography and computer security, including Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About security in an Uncertain World. His free monthly newsletter Crypto-Gram has over 130,000 subscribers and his website is a popular destination for those interested not only in computer security issues but in the debunking of general security-related myths.

15. Jimmy Wales

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That”s what we”re doing.” This, according to Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales in a 2004 Slashdot interview, is the concept behind Wikipedia.

The Internet was already taking a toll on traditional paper-bound encyclopedias, but the 2001 launch of Wikipedia, Wales’ online knowledge base comprised of user-generated, collaborative, peer-edited articles, dealt them a crippling blow. Despite some disputes around Wales’ personal vs. Wikipedia finances and ongoing controversy whenever Wikipedia entries are edited under suspicious circumstances, Wikipedia has become a standard online research tool with a knowledge base nearing 2.5 million (English language) articles and some 75,000 active contributors.

14. Paul Graham

Paul Graham first rose to prominence as co-founder of Viaweb, the first ASP (application service provider) software, a product that ushered in the era of practical Internet Retail.

Viaweb was sold to Yahoo! and re-branded as Yahoo! Store. Graham has gained some fame since then as a writer, with several books to his credit and a popular personal website, paulgraham.com, where he has posted material that has helped inspire SPAM-filtering technology, among other things. A collection of his essays has been published as a book titled Hackers and Painters. As a venture capitalist, Graham’s Y Combinator has provided start-up funding for dozens of firms, including the popular Web site reddit.com.

13. Sergey Brin

A Russian-born, American billionaire (one of the youngest billionaires on the planet), Sergey Brin is the President of Technology at Google (the company he co-founded with Larry Page).

Together with Page and CEO Eric Schmidt, Brin shares the honor of being named by PC Magazine as first on its list of the 50 Most Important People on the Web. Brin turned a fascination with data mining and data extraction into a computer science project at Stanford University and parlayed that work into what would soon become the web’s most popular search engine. Brin is a frequent speaker on the topic of technology and has appeared as a guest on numerous TV shows.

12. Chris Anderson

Editor-in-Chief of influential technology-focused magazine Wired, Anderson is also the author of The Long Tail: Why The Future of Business Is Selling More.

Anderson’s Long Tail blog allows him to expand on his theory that the Internet has allowed for a greater diversity of products to be sold profitably because of the increased market size for any given niche product compared to traditional retailing opportunities. Recently, Wired published Free, an article by Anderson based on his forthcoming book of the same name.

During his tenure, Anderson has helped boost wired.com’s blogging presence, including the creation of GeekDad, a blog that allows him to indulge his fascination with radio-controlled vehicles and other high-tech “toys”.

11. Tim Berners-Lee

While the world wide web is as close to ubiquitous as one could imagine these days, this wasn’t always the case. In fact, less than twenty years ago, it didn’t exist. The Internet had been around for some time, but it was largely the domain of academics, the military and technology geeks. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the focal point for the web as we know it today, the individual who first combined a series of concepts and technologies (domain name system, TCP/IP protocol, the Internet and hypertext) to create the world wide web.

The first website went live in August, 1991 and we haven’t looked back since. Berners-Lee is also the founder and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organization tasked with creating web standards.

10. Larry Page

One of the two founders of Google, Larry Page helped design the original Google search engine and was the company’s first CEO.

As Google began to grow into something much more ambitious, Page moved out of the CEO role (which was filled by technology veteran Eric Schmidt), taking on the position of President, Products.

Together with Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin, Page is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Google, a company which now employs over 10,000 people worldwide. Along with Brin and Schmidt, Page was named by PC Magazine as first on its list of the 50 Most Important People on the Web.

9. Eric Schmidt

Voted by PC Magazine as first on its list of the 50 Most Important People on the Web (along with fellow Google executives Larry Page and Sergey Brin), Dr. Eric Schmidt has a very long and influential career in the technology industry. Companies he has held prominent positions with include Sun Microsystems (CTO and leader of JAVA development) and Novell (CEO).

In 2001 he was hired as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Google. In addition, Schmidt joined Apple’s Board of Directors in 2006, making him a significant part of two of the most influential technology companies around. Schmidt has helped Google to continue its rapid growth, making him one of the richest men in the world.

8. Scott Adams

Cartoonist Scott Adams hit a nerve with Dilbert, his widely-syndicated cartoon about white-collar workers toiling in a cubicle farm, based on his own experience working in high tech firms.

Among the popular cultural terms spawned by Dilbert are “Pointy Haired Boss” and “Nerdvana.” dilbert.com has grown into a destination site with daily cartoon strips and additional content including Dilbert widgets, animation, and mashups. Taking advantage of Web 2.0 social aspects, readers vote on and rank comic strips.

Adams’ blog dilbertblog.typepad.com is separate from the Dilbert comic empire and allows Adams to exercise his acerbic wit on a wide range of topics from the political to environmental and pop culture.

7. Mark Cuban

American Billionaire Mark Cuban sold a software reselling business (MicroSolutions) to Compuserve, using the proceeds to fund Broadcast.com, which he sold to Yahoo! for $5.9 billion in Yahoo! stock. Cuban then bought the Dallas Mavericks NBA team.

He remains interested in media distribution and is a strong proponent of high definition video; he is currently Chairman of HDNet and part of 2929 Entertainment, which made news in 2006 by being the first production company to release a movie (Bubble) in theatres and on DVD simultaneously. Cuban’s blogmaverick.com gives him the pulpit to reach the masses on topics close to his heart, including video, TV and The Mavericks.

6. Chris Crocker

If you’ve been near a computer recently, chances are you’ve either seen or heard of the infamous “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!” videos, the first of which Chris Crocker posted to his MySpace page, while the second went to YouTube. Response to media backlash against Britney Spears, particularly the critical abuse she suffered after her “comeback” performance at the 2007 MTV Music Video Awards.

Crocker’s video featured an over-the-top performance that rapidly made it one of YouTube’s most viewed clips and gained Crocker instant fame. He appeared on a series of television shows, including various news programs, The Howard Stern Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and was honored with an award in Wired magazine. “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!” has inspired hundreds of parody videos, commentary videos and proved how effective YouTube can be for viral content distribution.

5. Seth Godin

Seth Godin is a best-selling author and speaker. His blog, among the most popular on the Internet, is focused on how ideas spread and permission marketing. Seth’s marketing ideology describes a powerful consumer that, thanks to the Internet, is not subject to the television monopoly anymore.

Following this ideology, he created in 2005 Squidoo, which is a social network where users can share their recommendations or expertise on different topics. It would be difficult to visit any marketing-related website without coming across a mention of Seth’s ideas.

He is also the co-founder of Yoyodyne, a pioneer online marketing company. Yoyodyne was sold to Yahoo! in 1998, and seth became a VP of Permission Marketing for the search company.

4. Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin is a blogger, columnist, and political commentator. She makes many guest appearances on radio and television shows like Fox News Channel, but it is perhaps through her blog that she shines the most.

Despite claiming that she “was born and remain an ink-stained wretch,” MichelleMalkin.com is one of the most popular conservative political blogs on the Internet. Her articles are often mentioned in other media outlets, including several mainstream publications, which illustrates the important role that bloggers are taking on the new media landscape.

In 2007 the National Republican Senatorial Committee named Malkin one of the best conservative bloggers in the country. A couple of years ago she also founded the Hot Air broadcast network, following the success of her blog.

3. Beppe Grillo

The Italian comedian and activist became famous for his political satire. Inside his television shows, he would attack directly corrupted politicians and blow financial scandals open. He became so uncomfortable to politicians and businessmen alike that in the late 80s he was banished from television in Italy

The television ban did not silence Grillo, though. He continued to perform in theaters all over the country, and in 2003 he started the blog BeppeGrillo.it. The success was immediate, and today his blog is among the 10 most popular in the world according to Technorati. What does that mean in numbers? Well, his posts receive over 1,000 comments on average.

Among other brilliant stunts, in 2005 he bought a full page of advertising in a national newspaper and used it to ask for the resignation of the governor of the Bank of Italy (who was involved in several scandals).

2. Perez Hilton

Capitalizing on a seemingly endless public appetite for celebrity gossip, Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. started blogging under the pseudonym Perez Hilton (taking his nickname from socialite and professional celebrity Paris Hilton). Rocketing to fame in a matter of months, he soon launched PerezHilton.com, where he claims to receive upwards of eight million page views daily.

Content tends toward the juvenile, but Perez has gained a huge audience by posting celebrity photos with catty comments; some are even adorned by his “doodles” of horns, drug remnants, or other objects. Controversy surrounds Hilton, not just because of the nature of his comments, but also because of accusations of illegally copying photos from other sites and a habit of “outing” celebrities he suspects of being gay.

1. Tila Tequila

Tila Tequila is the stage name for Tila Nguyen. First gaining popularity as a model for Playboy, Tequila was soon featured in other magazines such as Maxim and Stuff and began recording music and putting in appearances on reality shows including VH1’s Surviving Ted Nugent and Identity. On Identity, she claimed to have over one million MySpace friends.

One reality show, A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila, featured twenty contestants (both men and women) vying for Tila’s affections, a mix that caused considerable controversy among conservative Christians. She has gained fame as a force in self-promotion, with her website tilashotspot.com flogging her music, videos, selling photos, and even marketing her own fashion line.

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