Comments on: The six true leaders of the new web world http://webnomena.com/2008/09/19/the-six-true-leaders-of-the-new-web-world/ Experimenting with the web Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:02:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: xgenx http://webnomena.com/2008/09/19/the-six-true-leaders-of-the-new-web-world/#comment-496 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:12:57 +0000 http://usingit.wordpress.com/?p=429#comment-496 Excellent list! As I try to think of others that were left out I see something of the web’s characteristic nature: the democratization of the web has flattened the sharp curve of leaders into a curve of participants or collaborators. It has done this by exposing and recording and linking the contributions made by secondary personalities. It has flattened the curve upward.

But still your list is sharply focused. Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, Sergey Brin, and Larry Sanger may may have sounded the death-knell of the question itself. I try to explain to my son how we used to wonder about things. “I wonder who invented the screwdriver?” Or something like that. Now we just ask.

My favorite is still TimBerners-Lee. More and more the things I love exist in the world he made economical and free. If you look on the page on Wikipedia you can see how many others contributed substantially to his success. The interlinking of independent knowledge sources (minds) continues to be the webs defining characteristic.

]]> By: pressreleasepr http://webnomena.com/2008/09/19/the-six-true-leaders-of-the-new-web-world/#comment-374 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:05:50 +0000 http://usingit.wordpress.com/?p=429#comment-374 Some great names and suggestions here, Keren. I agree – true online visionaries aren’t the ones using existing technology and tools. Instead, they’re the ones that make things happen which then become a standard.

I think the next name on this list will be the person that truly takes Web 2.0 from being just a buzzword to something more tangible. It has to be imminent…

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