- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He and his wife, Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble , currently work at PodTech.net , a video-podcast startup. He is the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel .
- Doc Searls
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal , which has been covering the world's fastest-growing operating system since Version 1.0, in 1994. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , perhaps the only book (and probably the only bestseller) that began as a rant on a Web site. He also writes Doc Searls Weblog , which usually ranks well up in Technorati's Top 100 blogs (out of about 2.7 million).
- David Weinberger
David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York) is a technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing"). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society.
- Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik, of San Francisco, is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati. He is mostly known for his time at Microsoft (1997-2004), where he worked on the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer.
- Brad Templeton
Brad Templeton (born near Toronto in 1960), son of Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy, is a software engineer and entrepreneur. Templeton is considered one of the early luminaries of Usenet, and in 1989 founded ClariNet, which uses Usenet protocols to distribute news articles, one of the first commercial examples of electronic publishing. In his "Net History in Brief" post, he coined the phrase "Imminent death of net predicted".
- Josh Kopelman
Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation - an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- Jay Bhatti
Jay Bhatti trabajó en Microsoft en la gestión de productos. Jay obtuvo su MBA de la Wharton School, y realizó sus estudios en Ingeniería de Sistemas de la Universidad de Rutgers.
- Renee Blodgett
As President and Founder of Blodgett Communications, Renee Blodgett offers a very personalized approach of working with her clients, their customers and the influencers that impact them. She has been providing full service corporate communications, public relations and marketing consulting for worldwide technology companies and executives for nearly twenty years.
- Wen-Wen Lam
Wen-Wen Lam is currently running marketing for Renkoo. When she isn't out and about planning fun events with her friends, she can be found learning about marketing, bikram yoga, shopping, and keeping up with the latest celebrity gossip. Prior to Renkoo, she was part of the marketing team at LinkedIn.
- Dave McClure
Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for almost twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, & internet marketing nerd. He is an advisor or investor for Mint, Mashery, Simply Hired, TeachStreet, Oortle, CrazyEgg, SlideShare, Eventvue, RichRelevance, HealthUnity, & Canopy Financial. Dave is the conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a co-chair for Web 2.0 Expo.
- Rahul Prakash
- Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan is a social media expert specializing in building communities using digital tools. He is co-founder of PodCamp , a free unconference exploring the use of social media like podcasting and videoblogging to build relationships. He produces the Video on the Net conference for Pulvermedia and blogs at Chrisbrogan.com
- Jeff Clavier
Business Angel and Venture Advisor with over 15 years of experience in the software industry. Most recently General Partner in charge of US operations for RVC, the manager of the Reuters Greenhouse Fund, the Corporate VC arm of Reuters. Before that was involved both as an entrepreneur and senior executive in Product Management and Development, Sales and Marketing, Account Management, Business Development and Strategic Relationships with large financial services clients and partners. . . .
- JD Lasica
Author of "Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation" (Wiley & Sons, 2005). Executive Director and co-founder, Ourmedia.org, the global home for grassroots media. Writer, citizen journalist, media consuitant, open media evangelist.
- Heather Harde
- Chris Tolles
Chris Tolles CEO
- Dan Farber
Dan Farber at ZDNet covered LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman's keynote .
- Nick Douglas
i like to write at www.valleywag.com i am probably the best writer in the world. i like gossip stories.
- Yaron Samid
Yaron Samid , CMO Yaron has designed products and built companies that have empowered millions of people to create, consume, distribute and monetize digital media. Pando is his latest and greatest baby. Yaron started Pando out of his NYC apartment in the Summer of 2004 and is currently driving the company's business, product and marketing strategy.
- Thomas Foremski
Tom Foremski Founder, The Silicon Valley Watcher Tom Foremski has been a reporter covering Silicon Valley since arriving from London in 1984. Tom Foremski has been a reporter covering Silicon Valley since arriving from London in 1984. In June 2004 he left the Financial Times to become the first mainstream journalist to make a living as a journalist blogger by founding the online news site Silicon Valley Watcher-reporting on the business and culture of disruption.
- Shel Israel
I am co-author with Robert Scoble of Naked Conversations, the most popular book on corporate blogging. I am currently working on Global Neighborhoods, about communities being formed on shared interests, rather than geographic boundaries. I consult executives on communications issues, particularly in regard to social media. I speak regularly at conferences and to the media. I am a recovering publicist. I attend regular Hype Enders meetings in the hope hat I will never pitch again. Before . . .
- Alex Iskold
Alex Iskold is a Feature Writer for ReadWriteWeb, as well as a Business Advisor for the company. He has been part of the core writing team since August 2006. He is also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AdaptiveBlue, a smart browsing and personalization company. You can contact Alex at alex@readwriteweb.com.
- Deb Schultz
- John Furrier
John Furrier is the Founder & CEO of PodTech.Network Inc. Since 2001 John has been the CEO of BroadDev (Broadband Developments) a consulting and new ventures business. Before BroadDev, John was the Vice President of the Product Group and Vice President of Strategic Development for RealNames, an Internet search and naming company. From 1996-1999 John was the founder and CEO of Labrador Software paid keyword search and navigation company.
- Justin Kan
Justin Kan is the star of the overnight sensation, Justin.tv.
- Jerry Michalski
- Liz Gannes
- Gabriel Aldamiz-Echevarria
Gabriel is Vice President of Communications at MyStrands, a position he has held since December 2004. Before joining MyStrands he served as CEO of Saktec Robotics, a digital manufacturing company he co-founded in 2001. Gabriel served as Deputy Director of Communications at IE-Instituto de Empresa Business School handling International Communications.
- Douglas G. Smith
CEO/President of two internet startups in online digital content distribution including podcasts, audio books, seminars, song and more. Consummate senior business executive, combining innovations in e-commerce, internet marketing, call center operations, and product development to consistently drive revenues and profits.
- Oren Michels
- Joel Dreyfuss
Joel Dreyfuss, Editor in Chief, Red Herring, Inc
- Kathryn Shantz
- Eliane Fiolet
- Kevin Werbach
- Heddi Cundle
- Mike Sigal
- Denise Caruso
- Tami Zhu
Tami spearheads corporate development within the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Besides collaborating with VCs and Angels on deal flows, Tami works closely with the CEOs, board members of startups and AOL senior executives to identify potential M&A candidates as well as operating opportunities. Tami holds dual B.S. degrees in Information Science and Psychology from Beijing University in China, a M.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego, and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
- Tara Lemmey