PC World's 50 Most Important People

Not long ago, PC World Magazine published an article about the 50 most important people on the web. Now, this is an important matter for the internet. And that's because these people are the ones who "control" the majority of the content you see on the web. "Control how?" you say, well it's simple. They are what we read, watch, and listen... practically on a daily basis. They control the mainstream of the internet, the news, the updates, the new practices, and the new techonological advances. Of course this is all coming from a legitimate perspective, since, no Hacker is listed here. It is not entirely well known by the public that if it weren't for Hackers the world would be a completley different place today, technologically speaking of course. You might not be able to have a PC in front of you right now. The creator of Apple Computer (not on this list of course) was a hacker who hacked the first Atari and Hacked "Micro-Soft's" (original name) software.

What truly amazed me on this list is the last entry, number 50. Which, if you haven't been catching up on My Space success stories, is the sexy Tila Tequila. The chick that acquired mass fame with the use of a My Space profile and has landed record deals and other similar business agreements, even Movie roles, all with the use of the internet. She has proven that it doesn't take Radio or the TV to reach popularity with the Media these days. Another person that I enjoyed is #3, the creator of Bit Torrent Bram Cohen. It's the most widely used downloading file type by the pirating community. With this little handy file type anyone that knows where to look can download all typed of Games, Movies, CDs, and Books. The purpose of the Bit Torrent is to help move large files over the web. Nowadays the pirating community seeds (or Uploads and make available for download) just about anything, no matter the size. And just like any new pirating trend, a Quick Google search will reveal the little "set back" it had with the Motion Picture of America for copied content on the network. Anyways, here's the list:

1. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey BrinExecutives, Google
2. Steve JobsCEO Apple
3. Bram Cohen Cofounder BitTorrent
4. Mike Morhaime President Blizzard Entertainment
5. Jimmy Wales Founder Wikipedia
6. John DoerrVenture capitalist, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers
7. Craig Newmark Founder Craigslist
8. Peter Levinsohn President, Fox Interactive Media
9. Marissa Mayer Vice president for search products & user experience, Google
10. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen Founders, YouTube
11. Kevin J. Martin Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
12. Brad Templeton Chairman of the board, Electronic Frontier Foundation
13. Henry Chon CEO, Cyworld
14. Shana Fisher Senior vice president for strategy and M&A, IAC/InterActiveCorp\
15. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis Founders, Skype and KaZaA
16. Matt Mullenweg Developer, WordPress blogging site and software
17. Philip Rosedale CEO, Linden Lab
18. Jon Lech Johansen Creator, DeCSS decryption program
19. Jerry Yang, David Filo, and Terry SemelExecutives, Yahoo
20. Jack Ma COO, Alibaba.com
21. Brewster KahleDirector, Internet Archive
22. Ray Ozzie Chief software architect, Microsoft
23. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga Blogger, Daily Kos
24. Jeff Bezos CEO, Amazon
25. Robert Scoble Vice president of media development, PodTech.net
26. John Battelle Entrepreneur and chairman, Federated Media Publishing
27. Lawrence Lessig CEO, Creative Commons
28. Meg Whitman CEO, eBay
29. Ron Wyden U.S. Senator, Oregon
30. Michael Arrington Blogger/publisher, TechCrunch
31. Bruce Schneier Cryptographer
32. Kevin Rose Founder, Digg
33. David Farber Founder, Interesting-People.org
34. John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff Authors, PowerLine
35. Vinton G. Cerf Chairman, ICANN Board of Directors, and vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google
36. Tim O'ReillyFounder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
37. Drew Curtis Founder, Fark.com
38. Gabe RiveraCreator, Techmeme
39. Dave Winer Blogger and author of RSS 2.0
40. Mike Schroepfer Vice president of engineering, Mozilla
41. Perez Hilton Hollywood blogger
42. Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, and Jessica Livingston
Founders, Y Combinator
43. Mikko H. Hypponen Director of antivirus research, F-Secure
44. Rob Malda Founder, Slashdot.org
45. Nick Denton Founder, Gawker Media
46. Sir Tim Berners-LeeDirector, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
47. Leo Laporte Creator, This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast
48. Mohammed and Omar Fadhil Blogging voice of Iraq
49. Jesse James Garrett President, Adaptive Path
50. Tila Tequila MySpace Personality