The 50 Most Important People on the Web
Who does not love lists? PC World has made a list of the 50 most important people on the web.
1. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin
Executives, Google
2. Steve Jobs
CEO, Apple
3. Bram Cohen
Cofounder, BitTorrent
4. Mike Morhaime
President, Blizzard Entertainment
5. Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia
6. John Doerr
Venture capitalist, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers
7. Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist
8. Peter Levinsohn
President, Fox Interactive Media
9. Marissa Mayer
Vice president for search products & user experience, Google
10. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen
Founders, YouTube
11. Kevin J. Martin
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
12. Brad Templeton
Chairman of the board, Electronic Frontier Foundation
13. Henry Chon
CEO, Cyworld
14. Shana Fisher
Senior vice president for strategy and M&A, IAC/InterActiveCorp
15. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis
Founders, Skype and KaZaA
16. Matt Mullenweg
Developer, WordPress blogging site and software
17. Philip Rosedale
CEO, Linden Lab
18. Jon Lech Johansen
Creator, DeCSS decryption program
19. Jerry Yang, David Filo, and Terry Semel
Executives, Yahoo
20. Jack Ma
COO, Alibaba.com
21. Brewster Kahle
Director, Internet Archive
22. Ray Ozzie
Chief software architect, Microsoft
23. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
Blogger, Daily Kos
24. Jeff Bezos
CEO, Amazon
25. Robert Scoble
Vice president of media development, PodTech.net
26. John Battelle
Entrepreneur and chairman, Federated Media Publishing
27. Lawrence Lessig
CEO, Creative Commons
28. Meg Whitman
CEO, eBay
29. Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator, Oregon
30. Michael Arrington
Blogger/publisher, TechCrunch
31. Bruce Schneier
Cryptographer
32. Kevin Rose
Founder, Digg
33. David Farber
Founder, Interesting-People.org
34. John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff
Authors, PowerLine
35. Vinton G. Cerf
Chairman, ICANN Board of Directors, and vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google
36. Tim O’Reilly
Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media
37. Drew Curtis
Founder, Fark.com
38. Gabe Rivera
Creator, Techmeme
39. Dave Winer
Blogger and author of RSS 2.0
40. Mike Schroepfer
Vice president of engineering, Mozilla
41. Perez Hilton
Hollywood blogger
42. Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, and Jessica Livingston
Founders, Y Combinator
43. Mikko H. Hypponen
Director of antivirus research, F-Secure
44. Rob Malda
Founder, Slashdot.org
45. Nick Denton
Founder, Gawker Media
46. Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
47. Leo Laporte
Creator, This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast
48. Mohammed and Omar Fadhil
Blogging voice of Iraq
49. Jesse James Garrett
President, Adaptive Path
50. Tila Tequila
MySpace Personality
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