Most Influential Person of Web 2.0 In 2005
I had written a nice, long post using Performancing (to test it out) about why I (biasedly) thought Amazon was the Best Web Bigco in 2005 over Richard MacManus' Yahoo! pick. That is, until something happened and I lost that post. So, I'm not rewriting it. Oh well.
What I do want to write about -- since everyone else is doing it -- is a "Best of 2005." My take will be the Most Influential Person of 2005. Specifically, I'll be posting in terms of Web 2.0.
Note: Frankly, I don't really care about what you think of the term 'Web 2.0'; you know what I mean when I use it.
First the runners-up, then the winner:
What I do want to write about -- since everyone else is doing it -- is a "Best of 2005." My take will be the Most Influential Person of 2005. Specifically, I'll be posting in terms of Web 2.0.
Note: Frankly, I don't really care about what you think of the term 'Web 2.0'; you know what I mean when I use it.
First the runners-up, then the winner:
- Larry Page & Sergey Brin: Certainly the most talked about company of 2005, Google rocked.... everything (GMail made improvements, the search engine made improvements, they killed the stock market, almost every mashup made use of Maps, etc, etc).
- Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, and 37Signals crew: They made rockin' products, and shared the wealth with the world in form of Ruby on Rails. Their audience of around 17,000 blog readers means they reach a lot of people and influence many decisions.
- Evan Williams: Former Pyra/Blogger founder left Google to start Odeo, bringing podcasting to the masses (along with Steve Jobs and iTunes).
- Tim O'Reilly: He created the Web 2.0 meme and the conference which backs it. He helped fund companies such as Odeo, and he even attempted to write the definition of Web 2.0.
- Joshua Schachter: Creator of del.icio.us, probably one of the most widely used Web 2.0 sites and services. Acquired by Yahoo! near the end of the year.
- Jeff Bezos: The founder and head of Amazon, Jeff Bezos is ultimately responsible for innovative products like Mechanical Turk, 43 Things, Alexa Web Search Platform, and tagging on Amazon product pages.
- Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake: Founders of Flickr, a staple of Web 2.0 success, this couple sold Flickr and now work for Yahoo. Fake now runs some of Yahoo's social products.
- Robert Scoble: A Microsoft employee and evangelist who is helping to drive a lot of change within the aging organization, his reach is far and wide through his blog, Scobleizer.
- Gabe Rivera: Founder of Memeorandum, Gabe has changed the way many influentials and non-influentials alike read their tech and political news. His algorithms find important news items in near real-time.
- Kevin Rose: Former TechTV reporter and founder of Digg, another news site, but this time powered by users, digg has also transformed the way many find their news.
- Michael Arrington: The founder of six-month old blog, TechCrunch, he's quickly risen into the A-list of bloggers. Profiling (and probably making or breaking) companies and services, he reaches tens of thousands of readers. Still others show up at his house near the Valley to demo and show off their new products, hoping to get a link on the blog. While I don't always agree with his opinion on certain topics, he is definitely the most influential person right now in the Web 2.0 world. If he makes a statement, the blogosphere tends to listen.
13 Comments:
Yikes!
Any idea why you 'lost' it?
One nice feature is you can 'save as note' and use the notes feature kind of as a draft until you publish it.
Just an idea anyway.
I'm sure it had something to do with the way I used it. Using the WYSIWYG, I couldn't get a link to stop "linking," so I tried moving to the source, and when I moved, it dropped it all. Oops. I need to learn to use Performancing!
true considering hes the most likely to make or break web 2.0 companys with his choice and only him emily chang and the guy that runs solutionwatch have documented web 2.0 apps
Solution Watch guys is Brian Benzinger - and he rocks.
Thanks for the compliment Ian.
Mike, TechCrunch
Now I'm curious why you chose Amazon ;-) Let us know if you re-write the 'lost post' (and I think everyone has had that experience before).
Rich, ReadWriteWeb.com
Interesting that you chose Amazon. About an hour ago i was having a discussion with my friends about how Amazon is the dark horse that isn't getting the attention they deserve. They had no idea that Amazon offerend more than shopping.
I'll definitely let you know if I rewrite the post, but I'll likely just include most of the post in future posts instead. :)
Ian
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