Top 50 characters have a great influence on the Internet

PC World has just released the top 50 most influential characters in the online world today. These are the inventors who created forms of web use, such as virtual social networks, blog networks and technology business owners. Here are 5 brightest faces in the Internet.

1. This position belongs to three Google executives, Eric Schmidt , Larry Page , and Sergey Brin . Two male students Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Stanford University (USA) have developed a small graduation project into the world's leading prestigious search engine, its name has entered the dictionary as a verb. The current Google search system is worth $ 33 billion with the value of each share amounting to $ 500. In 2001, Schmidt left Novell high-tech firm to join Google's board and soon became CEO of the company. Since then, Google has captured the online advertising market and has enough resources to acquire and develop the YouTube network.

2. The position for Steve Jobs , CEO of Apple. He totally deserves the press information around the position of a CEO. Jobs is not only Apple's core in the iPhone marketing campaign with high-end connectivity, but is also known for its legal copyrighted digital music and movie downloads service.

3. The position of Bram Cohen , co-founder of BitTorrent network. By mathematical talent, programmer Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent in 2001. Its peer-to-peer data distribution system has attracted many users as a tool to download large files. , without putting additional burden on the broadband network. However, this convenient technology has brought Bram Cohen to court by the American Film Association for the reason that the BitTorrent system is used by some users for the purpose of sharing the registered digital content. copyright protection. A report said that more than a third of all web traffic belongs to BitTorrent customers. According to the latest announcement, BitTorrent has been upgraded to an entertainment network, providing digital content rental services for thousands of manufacturers.

4. In this position is Mike Morhaime , President of entertainment agency Blizzard Entertainment. Present in the world of online gaming, World of Warcraft spreads across continents with 8 million players, contributing to Blizzard every year for about $ 1.5 billion. In addition, Mike Morhaime also owns Blade of Eternal Justice and Second Life are also two online video games welcomed by many players on a global scale.

5. Standing in this position is Jimmy Wales , the founder of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For many people on the Internet, the Wikipedia dictionary is the starting point and the last stop for each topic to learn over the Internet. The content contributed by users is more reliable enough for the Nature magazine to declare "close to Britannica". The Wikipedia website has been used as a reference source for more than 100 US court rulings in 2004. However, Wikipedia's popularity has turned it into one of the priority targets of spammer attacks. . To prevent this situation, Wales decided to put the "nofollow" tag on foreign links, to inform search engines to remove those links to avoid high ranking suggestions for goals. Before the trend of increasing number of searches, Wales built WikiSeek search engine that only served Wikipedia.

In the remaining list are John Doerr , Chairman of Venture Investment Fund, who has 27 years of venture capital experience in the technology sector, including projects to launch Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com and Google today. Of course, the Yahoo leaders Jerry Yang , David Filo , and Terry Semel also reached the top 20. Notably, the two founders, the father Jack Ma of Alibaba.com (China) and Henry Chon Birth of Cyworld virtual social network (South Korea) is also present in this ranking.

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