Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but without the folks who create the Craigslists, MySpaces, and YouTubes of the world, much of the Web’s potential would be lost among spam sites and other online detritus.
So who’s making the biggest impact online? We considered hundreds of the Web’s most noteworthy power brokers, bloggers, brainiacs, and entrepreneurs to figure out whose contributions are shaping the way we use the Web. We whittled the list down to the top 50–well, actually the top 62–people, but as you’ll see, there are some you just can’t separate.
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After looking over and reading the list a couple times I was ready to throw up arguments. Arguments on why one person wasn’t higher then another and such. But after thinking about it, I think they have the positions down pretty well. They covered all the basis online with this one. Reading through the list you’ll see founders of what are now huge corporations (Google for example) , Founders of far reaching sites (Digg for example, plus bloggers (like Michael from TechCrunch) and Engineers like Berners Lee. The site content desperately needs a clean up, but I didn’t feel like fighting copyright to do it. But the story itself is sound, and a good read over all.
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