Faces & Rewards behind Web 2.07 years that changed the world

Bubble 2.0?

2001-2002: Burst of the first Dot-com bubble on NASDAQ.

2007-2008: Are we witnessing a second Dot-com bubble? OR are people finally making real money on the Internet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_dot-com_bubble

Recognize these Web Entrepreneurs?

● Jimmy Wales● Dave Sifry● Tom Anderson● Evan Williams● Larry & Sergey● James Hong● Joshua Schachter● Chad Hurley● Kevin Rose● Matt Mullenweg● Mark Zuckerberg

● Jimmy Wales● Dave Sifry● Tom Anderson● Evan Williams● Larry & Sergey● James Hong● Joshua Schachter● Chad Hurley● Kevin Rose● Matt Mullenweg● Mark Zuckerberg

● Wikipedia● Tecnorati● MySpace● Blogger, Odeo, Twitter● Google● HOT or Not● Del.icio.us● YouTube● Digg.com● Wordpress● Facebook

Recognize these Web Entrepreneurs?

● Position: Free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

● 2000: Peer-reviewed Nupedia ● 2001: Larry Sanger moots

idea of using a wiki. Birth of Wikipedia. Many non-English Wikipedias launched

● 2002: Bomis funding ends● 2003: Wikimedia Foundation

set up.● 2006: Voted one of world's

most influential people - Time● Feb 08: Alexa: #9

Jimmy Wales, b. 1966Wikipedia.org

Finance Masters from Auburn University, University of Alabama

photo from Wikipedia

● Position: Internet search engine for blogs. Tech version of literati or intellectuals.

● 2002: Started tracking blogs● 2006: SXSW awards for Best

Technical Achievement and Best of Show.

● 2006: Edelman's fake blogs scandal.

● Dec 07: Indexes over 112m weblogs.

● Feb 08: Alexa: #463David Sifry, b. 1968Technorati.comJohn Hopkins University

photo from Wikipedia

● 2002: Anderson sold eMail marketing company to eUniverse (aka InterMix Media)

● Nov 03: Official launch amidst Friendster growth pains

● Mid 04: 1-2 million accounts● Jul 05: Acquired by News Corp

for $580m.● 2006: Jun: $200m revenue.

Nov: 38.7 billion page views vs Yahoo's 38.05 billion.

● 2008: Alexa rank #5. Over 100m members. Third (or the) most popular website in US.

DeWolfe & Anderson b. 1966 & 1970MySpace.com

U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Los Angelesphoto of Fortune Magazine cover

● 1999: Co-founded Pyra Labs, offering Blogger for free.

● 2003: Blogger acquired by Google.

● 2004: With the Blogger team, named as People of the Year by PC Magazine.

● 2004: Co-founded Odeo for podcasting.

● 2007: Co-founded Twitter for micro-blogging.

● Feb 08: Twitter on Alexa #614

Evan Williams b. 1972

Blogger, Odeo, Twitter

university dropout

photo from Wikipedia

● 1995: Larry met Sergey; 1996: Research on backlinks

● 1998: Founded Google Inc. with US$100K investment by a Sun Microsystems founder

● 1999: PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites & Search Engines; $25m venture capital; Time's Top 10 Best Cybertech list

● 2000: 10 language versions; first keyword-based ads (AdWords); 2001: PageRank; 2004: IPO raised $1.6b

● Feb 06: "$100 billion empire dominating the Net" – Time

● Feb 08: Alexa: #4

Larry Page, Sergey Brin b. 1973 (Jews),

Google.comStanford University

photo from Time

● Position: Rating site where users rate attractiveness of photos submitted voluntarily by others.

● Oct 2000: Started HotOrNot.com

● 2001-now: Some say the founders of YouTube, Facebook and Zooomr were inspired by this site.

● 2008: NetNielsen Rating's Top 25 advertising domains.

● Feb 2008: Alexa: #1977James Hong, b. 1974?

HotOrNot.com

U.C. BerkeleyScreenshot from HotOrNot.com

● Position: Pioneer of tagging on the Web.

● Late 03: Launch of Del.icio.us● Dec 05: Acquired by Yahoo!

for an undisclosed sum -- rumored to be $30 million, with Schachter's share being approximately $15 million.

● Feb 08: Alexa: #120,141

Joshua Schachterb. 1974

del.icio.us & geoURL

Carnegie Mellon University

photo from Wikipedia

● Position: Consumer media, people watch and share original videos on the Web.

● 2005: Feb: Co-founded YouTube; Nov: Funding from Sequoia Capital; Dec: Launch

● 2006: Aug: 6.1m videos and 500K user accounts -- Wall Street Journal; Oct: Sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google.

● 2007: YouTube clones appear● 2008: 70m videos; politicians

creating channels in YouTube; Feb: Alexa: #2

Chad Hurley, b. 1977YouTube.com

Indiana University of Pennsylvanniaex-Paypal employee

photo (CC) Joi Ito

● Position: Community news syndication portal via social bookmarks on blogs and non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

● 2004: Nov: Experiment; Dec: Launch

● 2005: Added Adsense, friends list, and new interface by Silverorange

● Sep 06: Made $60 million in 18 months -- Business Week

● Feb 08: Alexa: #161Kevin Rose, b. 1977

Digg.com

University dropoutphoto (CC) Night Star Romanus

● Position: Free open-source blogware.

● 2003: Created fork of b2● 2004: Six Apart changed

Movable Type licensing terms

● 2007: Mar: #16 on "50 Most Important People on the Web" list by PC World; Oct: Turned down US$200 million offer to buy company.

● Feb 08: Alexa: #650, #50

Matt Mullenwegb. 1984

WordPress.org & .com

High School for the Performing & Visual Arts

photo (CC) Leonid Mamchenkov

● Position: Online community for students, faculty and staff.

● 2004: Feb: Launch for Harvard; Apr: Open to Ivy League schools

● 2005: $12.5m venture capital; Oct: universities in Canada, UK, Dec: Australia, New Zealand

● 2006: Declined $200m offer● 2007: Mar: Most viewed site for

youths aged 17-25, more females (69%) - US poll; May: Platform for developers; Oct: Microsoft 1.6% share of Facebook for $246m

● 2008: 64m active users aged 13 and over, Alexa: #7

Mark Zuckerbergb. 1984

Facebook.com

Harvard dropout;

“World's youngest billionaire with $1.5 billion on paper” -

Forbes

photo (CC) Brian Solis

● Position: Photo-sharing site● 2005: Launch● 2006: Geotagging, "Flickr on

steroids" - Michael Arrington● 2007: Sun Microsystems &

Zoho helped to launch Mark III?

● 2008: 50,000+ users, localised in over 18 languages.

● Feb 08: Alexa #11,421Kristopher Tate

b. 1989Zooomr.com

photo from BBC

YouYes, you.

You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.

Time Person of the Year 2006

photo of Time magazine cover

MeYes, me.

I control the Information Age. Welcome to my world.

Time Person of the Year 2006

Spoof of Time magazine cover by Malaysian blogger CF Liew

Uzyn Chua, b. 1983Ping.sg ● Position: Digg features for

Singaporean bloggers● 2006: Launched metablog for

Singapore from hostel room in National University of Singapore

● 2007: Jul: Graduated from NUS; over 1000 users; Nov: Asia's Top 25 Web Young Entrepreneurs - BusinessWeek Asia

● Feb 08: Alexa # 38,974

What about... Singapore?

photo of Straits Times report

The keywords are “Social” and “Open”

photo (CC) Daveybot

Q. Do you wanna be a “PC” only or a “Grid Computer”?

diagram by Adarsh Patil

compiled in Feb-Mar 2008 by

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