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, Facebook
The Edutainer: Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
The Money Man: Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital, The Founders Fund
The Crafter, Maria Thomas, etsy.com
The Advocate: Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia
The Crowd Sourcer: Jimmy Wales, Wikia, wikipedia
The Blogger: Evan Williams, Twitter
The Fighter: Jerry Yang, Yahoo
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Discussion
They left out quite a few include Shel Israel, Chris Brogan, and Guy Kawasaki.
I really think they missed one in Fred Wilson.
My vote is for the guy who invented silo-free, unwalled-garden social networking — Identi.ca inventor Evan Prodromou
Brian — these pictures are phenomenal. They in and of themselves told the story. Thank you as always for sharing your eye and gift.
Um….wow….really? This is the list? Corporate Schmos and business models trying to figure out how to make money……..it reminds me of why I dont read business weak…yes weak
An interesting list that complements my “15 seconds of fame” primer.
Shockingly, I think this is a very fair list.
Though, it’s a bit irksome how valley-centric this is. Perhaps we’ll see a bit more geographic diversity next year.
And thanks to you Brian for taking all these great pictures, BusinessWeek could have used some of these instead of our mugshots
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Why .com in the image? Craigslist, for one, is a .org
Oh and one more nomination:
The Filter – Clay Shirky
(I loved his “Filter failure” and “Cognitive surplus” talks at the Web 2.0 expos this year. (Disclosure, I work for O’Reilly Media, but have never met Clay in person)