Posted April 26, 2010 by cgseo under under
Pay-Per-Click Internet Evolution has come up with their first-ever list of the top 100 most innovative and influential people in the Web 2.0 world. In the social networking category, Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder of Facebook , beat out Kevin Rose, the Founder of Digg . In the search category, the heads of Google , Microsoft , and Yahoo! were named, but surprisingly Jason Calacanis of Mahalo was named, as well. Internet Evolution has narrowed down the list into 10 different categories, which include the most innovative and influential people in each category: Social Networking Enterprise & Cloud Computing News/Media Greentech Wireless & Gadgets E-Commerce Search Security Digital Entertainment Most Over-Rated I am particularly interested in the Search category , where Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Founders of Google , were named first. Stefan Weitz of Microsoft and Carol Bartz of Yahoo were also named, and Jason Calacanis was also named in the Search category. Here is the list of the top 10 most innovative and influential people in search: 1. Larry Page, Founder, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) 2. Stefan Weitz, Director of Search, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) 3. Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) 4. Jason Calacanis, Founder, Mahalo.com Inc. 5. Robin Li, originator of Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU) search technology 6. Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia 7. Vipul Ved Prakash, Founder, Topsy.com 8. Jack Ma, Founder, Alibaba.com Hong Kong Ltd. 9. Alan Emtage, creator of pre-Web search engine Archie 10. Suranga Chandratillake, CEO, blinkx Being in the search industry, I’m not sure if I totally agree with this list, as there are some websites that are in the list that I don’t necessarily think are really “search engines”. I would also name a few individuals like Danny Sullivan to the search category before I named Jason Calacanis to the search category. I agree that Calacanis should be named somewhere, but not in the search category. Here is the list of the top 100 most innovative and influential people in the Web 2.0 World: 1) Social Networking 1. Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Facebook 2. Kevin Rose, Founder, Digg 3. Jonathan Miller, Chief Digital Officer, News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) (MySpace ) 4. Philip Rosedale, Founder, Second Life 5. Jeff Weiner, CEO, LinkedIn Corp. 6. Caterina Fake, Founder, Flickr 7. Adam Christensen, Social Media Communications Manager, IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) 8. Jonathan Abrams, Founder, Friendster 9. Mark Goldston, CEO, United Online Inc. 10. Jason Rosenthal, CEO, Ning.com 2) Enterprise & Cloud Computing 1. Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) 2. Bradley Horowitz, VP, Product Management, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Apps 3. Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) 4. Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) 5. Amitabh Srivastava, SVP, Server & Cloud Division, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) 6. Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO, Salesforce.com Inc. 7. Simon Crosby, CTO, Citrix Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) 8. Randi Levin, CTO, City of Los Angeles 9. Andrew Brown, Managing Director, Bank of America 10. Manesh Patel, CIO, Sanmina-SCI Corp. (Nasdaq: SANM) 3) News/Media 1. Rupert Murdoch, CEO, News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) 2. Fiona Spruill, Editor, Web Newsroom, The New York Times 3. Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post 4. Jim Walton, President, CNN Worldwide (including CNN.com) 5. Matt Drudge, Founder, Drudge Report 6. Michael Arrington, Founder, TechCrunch 7. Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired 8. Julian Assange, Co-Founder, WikiLeaks 9. Chris Tolles, CEO, Topix 10. Cory Doctorow, Editor, Boing Boing 4) Greentech 1. Steven Chu, US Secretary of Energy, DOE 2. Hal La Flash, Director of Emerging Clean Energy Technologies, PG&E 3. Guido Bartels, Managing Director, IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM); Chairman, GridWise Alliance Inc. 4. Elon Musk, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Tesla Motors 5. Chuck Powers, IT strategist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory 6. Paul Maritz, CEO, VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) 7. Joel Selanikio, software developer 8. Lisa Wood, Executive Director, Institute for Electric Efficiency 9. Andres Carvallo, EVP, Chief Strategy Officer, Grid Net 10. KR Sridhar, Co-Founder & CEO, Bloom Energy Corp. 5) Wireless & Gadgets 1. Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) 2. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO, Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) 3. Kevin Dallas, General Manager, Windows Embedded Business Unit, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) 4. David Yach, CTO, Software, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; Toronto: RIM) 5. Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman & CEO, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) 6. Greg Brown, Sanjay Jha, Co-CEOs, Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) 7. Min Kao, Chairman & CEO, Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN) 8. Jeff Hawkins, Palm Inc. 9. Don Eigler, IBM Fellow, IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) 6) E-Commerce 1. Jeff Bezos, CEO & Chairman, Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) 2. Pierre Omidyar, Chairman, eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) 3. Craig Newmark, Founder, craigslist 4. Barry Diller, Chairman, Expedia 5. Scott Thompson, President, PayPal 6. Michael Dell, CEO, Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL) 7. Raul Vazquez, President & CEO, WalMart.com 8. Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Inc. 9. Greg Blatt, CEO, Match.com 10. Joey Levin, CEO, MyFunCards.com (Mindspark Interactive Network) 7) Search 1. Larry Page, Founder, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) 2. Stefan Weitz, Director of Search, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) 3. Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) 4. Jason Calacanis, Founder, Mahalo.com Inc. 5. Robin Li, originator of Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU) search technology 6. Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia 7. Vipul Ved Prakash, Founder, Topsy.com 8. Jack Ma, Founder, Alibaba.com Hong Kong Ltd. 9. Alan Emtage, creator of pre-Web search engine Archie 10. Suranga Chandratillake, CEO, blinkx Security 1. Robert S. Mueller III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 2. Scott Charney, Corporate VP, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) 3. Al Zollar, General Manager, IBM Tivoli 4. Whitfield Diffie, cryptography expert 5. Art Coviello, President, RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: EMC) 6. Dave Cullinane, Chairman, Cloud Security Alliance; CISO, eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) 7. Richard Clarke, Chairman, Good Harbor Consulting 8. Jeff Moss, Founder, Black Hat Inc. 9. Jeremiah Grossman, Founder & CTO, WhiteHat Security 10. Bruce Schneier, Blogger 9) Digital Entertainment 1. Eddy Cue, VP, iTunes (Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL)) 2. Mitch Bainwol, Chairman, RIAA 3. Jason Kilar, CEO, Hulu LLC 4. Chad Hurley, Founder and CEO, YouTube Inc. 5. Bram Cohen, Founder, BitTorrent Inc. 6. Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix Inc. 7. Rob Pardo, Executive VP, Blizzard Entertainment Inc. 8. Tim Westergren, Founder, Pandora Media Inc. 9. C
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Posted April 26, 2010 by cgseo under under
Pay-Per-Click Yahoo announced a global partnership with Samsung today, which will see Yahoo services coming pre-installed on a variety of mobile devices from the manufacturer . The two companies have partnered since 2007, but that relationship is now being greatly expanded. “By making our most popular Yahoo! services available on Samsung mobile devices around the world, we’re providing consumers with personally relevant mobile Internet experiences that make it easy for them to stay connected to what’s important to them and explore the full potential of their device,” said David Ko, senior vice president, Audience, Mobile and Local for Yahoo!. “We’re thrilled to deepen our relationship with Samsung and look forward to continuing to drive the global adoption of mobile Internet services.” Dr. Ho Soo Lee, EVP, Media Solution Center, Samsung Electronics (L) and David Ko, SVP, Audience, Mobile and Local, North America, Yahoo! (R), sign strategic global partnership to pre-load Yahoo! services on tens of millions of Samsung devices. (Photo: Business Wire) Yahoo services that purchasers of Samsung devices may find include: – Yahoo Mail – Yahoo Messenger – Yahoo Contacts and Calendar – Yahoo Mobile Front Page – Yahoo Search – Flickr – Yahoo News – Yahoo finance – Yahoo Weather “We want to provide our customers with the best possible services designed to enhance their mobile experience,” said Kenny Lee, vice president of content planning at Samsung. “Our relationship with Yahoo! continues to grow and benefit our global consumer base, who wants access popular Yahoo! services from their Samsung phone.” While the announcement did not reveal specifically what devices that will come loaded with Yahoo services, it did say that it will include those running the Samsung bada and Android platforms.
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