The 25 most influential people on the Internet

. "Creator"
Tim Berners-Lee
In 1989, Berners-Lee laid the basic principle of organizing information on the Internet, inventing hypertext, or more simply - a system of references. In mid-1990 Berners-Lee began to develop a new concept called "Semantic Web» (Semantic Web), which is a more convenient method of organizing information in a network based on tags. Currently, the organization is headed by World Wide Web Consortium, standards development, which in future may become generally accepted in the Internet.

2. Pioneer
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen make a revolution in the field of Internet navigation, considerably simplify it by creating the first Internet browser, Mosaic. Later, along with Jim Clark, he founded a network of Netscape Communications, which later became public and was acquired by AOL. Now he is working on a startup Ning, which helps users to create their own Social Network on the Internet.

3. 'Seer'
Jeff Bezos
In 1994, Jeff Bezos came across a startled his statistics: using the Internet is growing at a rate of 2300% per year. At that time he had a good job, but he came to his boss and said: "I'm going to do a crazy idea - to sell books through the Internet." The idea was good and helped create the largest Internet online store Amazon.com.

4. Seekers "
Sergey Brin, Larry Page
This virtually indivisible pair was able to establish without doubt the most powerful in the world of the Internet with Google, devising a method of analyzing links between resources, which provides an efficient search in the network. Brin and Page have become billionaires, but still try to adhere to its informal motto "Do no harm".

5. "The Decorator '
Marissa Mayer
Another team player Google. In 1999, Meyer became the first woman engineer in Google. She currently serves as vice-president for search products and work with users. Her ideas embodied in the design and construction principle of different services Google, helped turn a brilliant technical concept Brin and Page in the finished product, the most popular on the Internet. It looks like Google now, the result of its work.

6. "Encyclopedic"
Jimmy Wales
Wales, along with Larry Sanger launched the most popular online encyclopaedia of the world - Wikipedia. This resource has become a social phenomenon, the same as Google. Money to the creator, he brings less, but Uyels working on this. Now he is trying to apply the principle of "nationality" in another product, creating a new search engine, a large part in the work which will occupy the users.

7. Kommersant
Margaret Whitman
Wittman has made an unordered Internet auction house eBay into a powerful international tool of electronic commerce. Having achieved success in this business, she started to purchase other related or distant from 1f70 e-commerce projects. Her empire now includes such services as Internet payment system PayPal and Internet phone Skype. Whitman continues to absorption, and accuse her of promiscuity can not.

8. "Blogger"
Evan Williams
This man in 1999 created a website Blogger - a tool to each create a virtual forum where you can express all that I want. The company thrives, though now without Williams, who without hesitation sold his brainchild insatiable Google. What he received is unknown, but there is no doubt that a lot.Now he can afford to do "little things" - eg, establishment of a "microblogging» - Twitter, which allows you to collect in one place scraps of thoughts and opinions of different people who do not want to start your own full-fledged blog, but would like to share your thoughts with others.

9. "The Collector"
Kevin Rose
By constructing a "living agreggator News» Digg, Kevin Rose has created a new way of reading news on the Internet. Now, to find out what living network, At least, the American part of it, just check out his site. Voting Digg users determines that the last really important, but that is not worthy of mention. Now Digg effort Rose smoothly transformed into another social network.Meanwhile, the community of "Diggers" has become a powerful force with which to reckon not only on the Internet, but in the real world.

10. "Dreamer"
Philip Rosedale
By creating a fantasy world Second Life, Rosedale first able to effectively realize old dreams and predictions about virtual reality. Draft Second Life, begun as entertainment service, becoming more and more serious. Now in its 9 million virtual residents, and the turnover of the virtual economy rolls over to 12 million very real dollars. It may be that in the future "Second Life" in importance compared with the first. The main thing is that the first did not turn into the world of The Matrix. "

11. "Friend"
Tom Andersen
In 2003, Chris Anderson, along with Devolfom founded the site MySpace.com, to help musicians communicate with their fans. By mid-2005 site MySpace has had in its ranks the 22 million members and was bought by News Corp for $ 580 million now average audience of world's most popular social site - more than 115 million unique users. But Anderson still finds time to make a friends list of all new users of MySpace, though, he does so not without the aid program, a robot. Without him it would not be able to devote time to the strategic plans for expansion in China and the defense on the other growing social network - Facebook.

12. "The soul of the company"
Mark Zuckerberg
In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, along with roommates in a dormitory at Harvard University have created a site for communication between students. Soon the students started to use Facebook at Stanford, Yale, Columbia and the universities. Zuckerberg dropped out and moved from the university campus in Silicon Valley, where he began to develop the site. By the spring of the social network has expanded to 800 colleges, and two years later the site was opened to the public. At last count, was recorded 41 million active users.

13. "Newsboy"
Rupert Murdoch
76-year-old Australian media magnate before many of his colleagues realized the importance of the Internet and the threat it poses to traditional media, where Murdoch has made his fortune. So it is no coincidence empire of Murdoch's News Corp has posted several hundred million dollars for the purchase of social network MySpace.

14. "Designer"
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, who in 1996 returned to Apple as CEO, is obsessed with details, and at first glance, meaningless details - this property has allowed him to create a number of products that many consider ideal. Thanks to his efforts all know that music is best listened to your player iPod, and download it should be out of the store iTunes. Fortunately, the monopoly is impossible, and Jobs have to constantly invent new moves to keep the cult of Apple at the proper level.

15. "Shepherdess"
Mitchell Baker
Working at Netscape, Baker was not accidental was nicknamed "the shepherd freeloaders" - the current head of the company Mozilla, which is engaged in one of the largest open-source projects - the browser Firefox, it has to, on the one hand, to maintain the spirit of freedom and enthusiasm which made it possible to create free browser superior to Internet Explorer from Microsoft, and on the other - to do business so that company, do not work in sales, could have a profit. While her work is progressing well - Firefox was able to win 15% market share from Internet Explorer.

16. "Saviour"
Jerry Yang 
Jerry Yang, along with his friend David Filo founded the portal Yahoo! In 1995 Since then, Page, which was just collected links in categories, has become a billionth of an empire. However, until recently, Young was in the company of only the honorary title of "Chief Yahoo». Now, when things at Yahoo is not performing well - portal loses the race Google, Young received the post of executive director. Young should not only raise the moral level of employees, but also a miracle - to bring it back to the market leaders.

17. Investor
Peter Teal 
One of the founders of the online payment system PayPal, Teal has also created a global hedge fund Clarium Capital Management, which manages investments worth more than $ 2 billion addition, Teal is the managing partner of venture fund Founders Fund, which invested in technology companies. Among companies that Teal has entrusted the money of its customers - startups such as Facebook, Slide, and Ooma. In general, if you have a great high-tech idea, but no money for its embodiment, try to convince her genius Tila. When he says "yes", it means that you are halfway to success.

18. Angel
Reid Hoffman
Another person with whom the author met any prospective start-up in the U.S. - this is Reid Hoffman. Among the inhabitants of Silicon Valley, he is probably the best connections. And not just because he is the founder and head of the professional social network LinkedIn, but also because he is an investor in over 60 companies in 2082 including Facebook, Digg, and Last.fm, and also sits on the boards of companies like SixApart, Kiva.org , and Mozilla.

19. "King ventures'
Michael Moritz
Moritz - the third investor in the list of the most influential on the internet, but it must go, if you already had some success. Before becoming a managing partner of investment fund, Sequoia Capital, he was a correspondent for Time magazine and has written popular books about Apple and Chrysler. But then he changed his pen on the calculator and has been successful. Recently, Forbes magazine named him the most successful entrepreneur.

20. "The critic"
Michael Errington
If Hoffman and Till have already invested in your company a few million, then now is the time to try to start a good relationship with Michael Errington, who is the head and founder of the blog TechCrunch. In just two years with little Errington was able to turn your life in a small but influential media empire. If your company is referred Errington, then you've walked a quarter of the way to succeed, and perhaps the time has come to request free money for further development at Moritz.

21. "Teacher"
Tim O'Reilly
O'Reilly began to publish books on computers back in 1980, and 20 years later, manuals and guidelines issued by his company to fill the computer departments of bookstores worldwide.

22. "Adorner"
Max Levchin
In 1998, Levchin had to borrow $ 2 thousand to buy its stake in the company of PayPal, one of the founders of which he served. By 2002, this comes from the Ukraine fussing, as if not too cheap, selling PayPal, Margaret Whitman of eBay at $ 1.5 billion (value of the share Levchin was about $ 34 million). Now Levchin hopes to earn even more by his new company, Slide, which produces the so-called "widgets" - small online applications (such as a slideshow), embedded in popular Internet services to perform a specific set of functions.

23. "Seller"
Marc Benioff
Modern trading companies are actively moving to use a new generation of software, which is a service that is distributed in the network. The pioneer of this service was the site of Salesforce.com, which is established by Marc Benioff. A former sales representative Oracle, he is developing tools that other companies can use to create their own programs.

24. "Provocateur"
Dave Weiner
Weiner is best known for creating format RSS, which allows users to not only view the content of multiple resources in one place, but immediately recognizable to update third-party sites. With his sharp remarks Weiner had accumulated many enemies, but his popularity did not take.

25. "Strategy"
Ray Ozzie
After Bill Gates became increasingly move away from direct management of Microsoft, Ozzie took over the role of a strategist. That he should help the company, which has a monopoly in the software for users to take a worthy place on the internet. We can say that in the coming years will not have time to relax Ozzy - until his company as never far from victory.