The 50 Most Important People on the Web
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Here's who's shaping what you read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online.
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By Lee Randall  REGULAR readers know I'm a great fan of the internet. I'm continually astounded by the wealth of data stored there and especially love the way one thing leads to another. It's a Mecca for anyone who enjoys meandering.
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Nearly 200 names are added to the definite list of people who have made an impact on society.
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Keep tabs on all of your online buddies, discover how you spend each day, and create presentations on the Web.
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The average person in the Western world takes the Internet for granted, yet fewer than 20 percent of the 6 billion people living on this planet have access to it. Web-enabling 50 percent of the world&#39;s population by 2015 may sound ambitious, but that&#39;s AMD&#39;s goal for its 50x15 initiative, which will stress the use of alternative sources of sustainable, affordable power.
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The rich and fabulous now have their own online hot spots. Can we get in?
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Over the last week, I've been writing about the disconnect between flow and rank. Paradoxically, sites that are ranked high don't always deliver a lot of hits when they link to you. On the flipside, there are some sites that are rarely on Top 100 lists, or talked about very much, that deliver substantial flow. Two of them stand out, one a veteran site, and the other a relative newcomer. 1. Daring Fireball is a thoughtful blog written by John Gruber that focuses on the Macintosh. Since I've returned to the Mac in 2005, and have been writing more about Mac issues, I've started getting links from this site, and when I do, they usually send between 1000 and 2000 readers my way. And they're generally interesting people with useful information and ideas. I follow Gruber on Twitter and have learned that he is a Phillies fan and therefore disappointed this year. His posts are interesting there too, and irreverent, which I like of course.  2. A Digg-like memetracker, news.ycombinator.com is in the same league as TechMeme, about 1000 hits for a highly ranked piece. I don't know much about the site, I'm not a regular reader, and I don't know much about the people who visit from this site.
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A vast online network is being used to promote social and environmental responsibility.
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InfoWorld - Wikimedia Foundation popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks.
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More than 50 people obey Yesterday, Michael VandeMar tried to go eighteen hours without visiting the big five search engines. Taking up a challenge from search engine guru Charles Knight, heâd resolved to avoid Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask.com, and AOL from 6am to midnight. By 9:53, heâd given up. âBah!â he wrote to Knightâs Alt Search Engines blog. âI blew it.ââ¦
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Disaboom.com, a new Web site for the 50 million Americans who have a disability, combines social-networking with medical news, career advice, dating resources and travel tips.
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A recent ComScore study showed that in 2006 International usage of Google grew 13%, projecting it to the #2 spot in the Top Global Web Properties list, nudged between Microsoft and Yahoo, which each grew by 5%. The ranking were judged by Total Unique Visitors in 2006, not page views or usage, if so, we&#8217;d probably [...]
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You were named Time magazine "Person  of the Year" on Saturday for the explosive growth and influence  of user-generated Internet content such as blogs, video-file  sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace.
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One of the best things I like about the Internet is the boundary-less nature of this amazing network. I can check out user views of people (from here in India) around the world on the India issues.
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The search engine makes a deal with five libraries to scan and store their books online. Also: A judge rules Maryland's anti-spam law unconstitutional & hellip;.  Europeans join to make fourth most powerful megacomputer & hellip;. and more.
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The World Wide Web is the perfect Petri dish for memes, infectious ideas or any other things that spread by imitation from person to person.
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The search queries of some 600,000 users were posted online, and some can be traced back to people.