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BusinessWeek: The 25 Most Influential People on the Web

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader

Sep 29, 2008

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words and pictures by Brian Solis

BusinessWeek released its report on the 25 most influential people on the Web today as determined by the magazine’s staff.

Congratulations to our friends as well as those we have yet to meet in person for making this prestigious list. I’ve included pictures of those that I have on hand.

Here are your influencers, in no particular order:

The Seeker: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft

The Marshall: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla.org

The Innovator: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com

The Searchers: Sergey Brin, larry Page, and Eric Schmidt, Google

The Investor: Jeff CLavier, softtechvc

The Papa Bear: Paul Graham, ycombinator

The Muckracker: Arianna Huffington, HuffingtonPost

The Adviser: Joi Ito

The Mastermind: Steve Jobs, Apple

The Filmer: Jonathan Kaplan, Flip

The Communicator: Loic Le Meur, Leweb, Seesmic

The Trader: Jack Ma, alibaba.com

The Publisher: Matt Mullenweg, Wordpress.org

The Mogul: Rupert Murdoch, Myspace.com

The Community Organizer: Craig Newmark, craigslist

The Traffic Driver: Gabe Rivera, Techmeme

The Poster Boy: Kevin Rose, Digg

The Adult: Sheryl Sandberg, Face

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Comments (6)

Eyebee,

Sep 30, 2008

Interesting to put a couple more faces to names. I always take these 'lists' with a pinch of salt though.

Jasongoldberg,

Sep 30, 2008

@eyebee there are some odd names on the list, but nice to read these things nonetheless.

Eyebee,

Sep 30, 2008

Oh I agree it's nice to read these things, but I just seldom take 'top' lists (of anything) too seriously. Entertainment value mostly.

Thomaspower,

Sep 30, 2008

What a great list.

Thomaspower,

Sep 30, 2008

Love the pictures can't you get them all?

Glemak,

Sep 30, 2008

i too thought it was an odd list, some folks on it are well known but don't think of them as influencing how the web progresses

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