- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …
- Marc Canter
Type-A, gregarious, white Rasta, social software nerd, father of multimedia.
- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- 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).
- Steve Rubel
Steve Rubel is a senior marketing strategist and one of the most influential bloggers in the world, according to Technorati. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice. Edelman is the largest independent global PR firm. Widely viewed as an expert on conversational marketing, Rubel is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press. He has been named to several prestigious lists, including: Media Magazine's Media 100, the . . .
- Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is a founder and Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures. Fred began his career in venture capital in 1987 and he has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 16 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, an early stage venture capital firm located in New York City. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners.
- Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo (born July 26, 1973 in Des Moines, Iowa) is the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome. He spent two years hosting the TechTV (now known as G4) television program "Call for Help" before parting ways with the company. He also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon on TechTV.
- Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen (born circa 1960) is a British-American entrepreneur and author best known as a critic of Web 2.0. In The Weekly Standard, Keen wrote that Web 2.0 is a "grand utopian movement" similar to "communist society" as described by Karl Marx. "It worships the creative amateur: the self-taught filmmaker, the dorm-room musician, the unpublished writer.
- Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmark (born 6 December 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based website Craigslist. Newmark attended Morristown High School. Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University. Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. He has donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, …
- Evan Williams
Evan Williams, born in 1972, a native of Nebraska, is an American entrepreneur who has founded two Internet companies. Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google.
- Chad Hurley
Chad Meredith Hurley (born 1977) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 people who matter" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. According to an October 10 2006 "Wall Street Journal" article, …
- Chris Messina
Chris Messina (born January 7, 1981 in USA), aka FactoryJoe, currently residing in San Francisco, is co-founder of Citizen Agency. Chris is best known for his involvement in helping to create the BarCamp movement and Microformats. Recently he co-founded The Citizen Agency, a company which describes itself as " Internet consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, …
- Emily Chang
Emily Chang is an award-winning web designer and artist. She is the co-founder and co-principal of Ideacodes, a strategic design firm in San Francisco that she started in 2005 with Max Kiesler, her long-time partner and fellow award-winning web designer. Emily is also the creator of the popular blog and web resource, eHub, a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, …
- Stewart Butterfield
Stewart Butterfield (born 1973) is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and businessman. He co-founded the photo sharing website Flickr and its parent company Ludicorp with his wife Caterina Fake. In March 2005 Ludicorp was acquired by Yahoo!, where Butterfield now serves as a Director of Product Management. Butterfield received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge, where he specialized in the philosophy of biology, …
- John Battelle
John Battelle , 42, is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded scores of online, conference, magazine and other media businesses. Prior to founding Federated Media, Battelle co-founded and continues to serve as Executive Producer of the Web 2 Summit conference, as well as "band manager" with BoingBoing.net .
- Caterina Fake
What she does: The co-founder of Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Fake was one of the pioneers of the site-based photo sharing model. Before Flickr, sharing photographs meant sending them piecemeal as email attachments. The site is now widely used as a photo repository by individuals and companies alike. How she got there: Fake graduated with a BA in English from Vassar.
- Om Malik
Om Malik is the founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc., an online news and weblog that delivers technology news, analysis, and opinions to a monthly global audience of one million consumers and professionals interested in the world of hi-tech. His daily rants on tech/telecom and broadband can be found at http://gigaom.com . Panel: Panel Discussion: Scaling and High Availability Challenges
- Steve Chen
Steve Shih Chen (born August 1978 in Taiwan) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 8, when his family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school at John Hersey High School as well as the Illinois Math and Science Academy and college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
- Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm
- Ajit Jaokar
Ajit Jaokar is an Indian-born British author and Web 2.0 specialist. He is the founder and CEO of the publishing company Futuretext. He is also the chair of the Oxford University's Next Generation Mobile Applications Panel.
- C.C. Chapman
Charles "C.C." Chapman is a prominent figure in the community of podcasting and podsafe music. From a home studio in the Boston area, Chapman hosts the independent music-focused podcasts "Accident Hash" and "U-Turn Cafe", and contributes to PodShow Music Rewind, a weekly digest of music shows on the PodShow network. He also promotes PodShow's Podsafe Music Network, a major archive of music licensed for free use in podcasts.
- Andy
Senior product manager for online communities at National Public Radio; former big cheese at the Digital Divide Network; itinerant correspondent for Rocketboom; video blogger; travel addict; new dad.
- Nicholas G. Carr
Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American "business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology." Carr holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from Harvard University. Carr wrote the 2004 book "Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press) and the 2003 "Harvard Business Review" article "IT Doesn't Matter." In these works, …
- Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, and an activist for open standards. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference.
- Paul Buchheit
Randomizing the name seems bad to me because the cc# is still being saved somewhere in the browser db, but I don't get the benefit of auto-fill. A "don't save" attribute makes more sense to me. - Paul Buchheit I think I'd rather have a dedicated HTML marker/field for sensitive information so that browsers could know to not save it if the user chooses to do so. Randomizing the name is the best step you can take short of the browser knowing not to save the input.
- Adario Strange
Adario Strange is a New York based film director, writer and artist. He is most well known for his documentary film "The NYU Suicides" detailing a year of strange deaths at the famed university. From 2006 to 2007, he was Editor in Chief of the weekly newspaper "New York Press". Strange was born and raised in the East Village in New York City, NY, United States.
- Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club).
- Cathy Davidson
Cathy N. Davidson received her B.A. from Elmhurst College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She also has done postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago and was presented with Honorary Doctorates from Elmhurst College and Northwestern University. She has served as the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University since 1996, …
- Eric Kastler
CEO, Leader and Founder of " A World Citizen Program "http://www.erickastler.comThis program is leading to an international web 2.0 project which will help building a better world !You already LIKE Wikipedia ? You will LOVE our future project !
- Dmitry Shapiro
Dmitry Shapiro founded Veoh Networks in late 2004 and now serves as the company's Chief Innovation Officer. Dmitry started Veoh a very short to-do list: First, democratize. Open the business of television-once strictly a members-only deal-to a virtual community of broadcasters. Second, connect those broadcasters with new, global audiences, hungry for a limitless world of compelling programming to fill every niche interest, and desire.
- Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist. He began his career as an actuary. He was the CFO of PayPal. Now he works for Sequoia Capital and sat on the board of directors of YouTube before its acquisition by Google. Botha sits on the board of Insider Pages, Meebo, and Xoom. Botha graduated from Stanford Business School in 2000. He also attended the University of Cape Town where he did a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics.
- Philippe Phebus Dubois
Philippe Phébus Dubois started painting at the age of 30. During several years he studied the art of painting and drawing. Between 1989 en 1990 he spent a lot of time in Amsterdam, studying the work of Vincent Van Gogh. In the nineties his work evolved to more abstract art. In December 1998 he exposed his abstract work for the first time in the museum of Tubize (Belgium). Phébus currently lives and works in Brussels. (Brigitte Descartes, Doctor of Philosophy/History of Art.)
- Dina Kaplan
Dina Kaplan is an American Internet media executive. Kaplan is a co-founder and COO of blip.tv, a Web 2.0 media company that makes it easy for anyone to create an independent TV show on the Internet. She is also an Emmy-winning broadcast journalist and a founding member of the Women's Media Center.
- Craig Cline
Craig Cline (1951-2006) served as an editorial director of Seybold Publications, conference director of the Seybold Seminars and vice president of content development for the Seminars. He began with Seybold in the mid 1980s when the Seminars were the major conference for the growing electronic publishing industry.
- Mike Cadogan
Emergency Physician, Rugby Doctor and internet entrepreneur. CEO of HealthEngine.com.au, an health search engine designed to provide rapid contact with health professionals in Australia. CIO of Popfossa.com a world medical and allied health conference / scientific meeting resource. Emergency physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and resuscitation doctor for the Western Force. Passionate about medical education and running LifeInTheFastLane.com to help disseminate medical education.
- Marcello Cividini
Italian pioneer in Direct Marketing, works at Corriere della Sera up to 1979. Fund raiser and database builder for many United Nations Agencies. Now founder and CEO of Coupon Line a company dedicated to revolutionary targeting technique in retail chains. Journalist and Teacher in Direct Marketing at Master in Brand Communication in Venice Ca' Foscari and Brand Marketing Strategy in Milano Politechnic University. China Partners is a new marketing venture to develop Italian food business in China.
- Carlo Branca
I love networking and I have made it my living so feel free to connect with me here or in other social/business networks where you can find me.Do not hesitate to ask me if there is anything I can help you with.Besides networking itself I also love network marketing.I have more than 5 years experience in Europe and work with a fantastic team that cover more than 10 languages and with connections in more than 50 countries.
- 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.
- David O. Sacks
David O. Sacks is Founder and CEO of Web 2.0 company Geni, Inc.. Sacks was previously the COO of PayPal until its acquisition by eBay. He produced the recent Hollywood movie, "Thank You for Smoking". He was interviewed in a recent episode of Venture Voice. He attended Memphis University School in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Massimiliano Mauriello
In the last ten years of job experience developed a professional path focused on accounting/administrative roles, having been in charge of roles such as accountant, administrative, controller, mainly in multinational companies and taking part at some important projects.