I need your help!
My colleague David Cushman and I are coming up with a list of Web 2.0 Rockstars to use for a fun list on Ditto.net. Ditto is a fun and easy way to find entertainment and other interesting topics, ranked by user voting. And it’s constantly evolving, with some big changes on the way. (Disclosure: I do some work with Ditto as it’s owned by the company I work for, Bauer Consumer Media)
So we want to celebrate the changes with a fun vote on who is the biggest ‘rockstar’ in Web 2.0, whether it’s because they founded the biggest site, live the most glamorous lifestyle, or have an addiction to Guitar Hero! You can see the list, links and info below, and add your suggestions and comments below, or on the Ditto blog. David and I will be compiling them all, and will let you know as soon as the list is ready for voting…
Forget Google Page Rank, Technorati listing, or Twitter followers…this is all about your opinions….
Rock Stars of Web2.0…in no particular order
- Guy Kawasaki
- Darren Rowse (ProBlogger)
- Matthew Mullenweg (wordpress)
- Kathy Sierra
- Marc Canter (Broadband mechanics)
- Biz Stone (twitter/blogger etc)
- Ev Williams (twitter)
- Danah Boyd
- Mark Zuckerberg (facebook)
- Larry Page (google)
- Sergey Brin (google)
- Veronica Bellmont (tekzilla host)
- Jerry Yang (yahoo)
- Steve Jobs (apple)
- Robert Scoble (tech geek blogger)
- Mike Arrington (techcrunch)
- Jason Calacanis (Mahalo)
- Jimmy Wales (wikipedia)
- Joseph Jaffe (jaffejuice)
- Bill Gates (Microsoft)
- Tom Anderson (Myspace)
- Stowe Boyd (message)
- Ariana Huffington
- Shel Israel (global neighbourhoods)
- Fred Wilson (a VC)
- Jeremiah Owyang (Forrester analyst)
- David Armano (Logic + Emotion)
- Brian Solis (PR2.0)
- Jeff Jarvis (buzzmachine)
- Scott Karp (publising2.0)
- Doc Searls (Cluetrain Manifesto, Project VRM)
- JP Rangaswami (Confused of Calcutta)
- David Weinberger (Cluetrain, Everything is Miscellaneous)
- Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody)
- Euan Semple (The Obvious, ex-Beeb Social computing consultant)
- Chad Hurley (youtube)
- Steve Chen (youtube)
- Alan Moore (Communities Dominate Brands)
- Seth Godin
- Hugh Macleod (Gaping Void)
- Josh Bernoff (Groundswell)
- Steve Rubel (micropersuasion)
- Barack Obama (he’s everywhere 2.0 is)
- Tony @zappos
- Chris Anderson (The Long Tail)
- Amanda Congdon
- Don Tapscott (Wikinomics)
- Loic LeMeur (Seesmic, Twhirl)
- Louis Gray (early adopter blog)
- Howard Rheingold (Smartmobs)
And more being added after suggestions here, on Dave’s blog, on Ditto, and on Twitter:
- Lolcats
- Rick Astley
- Corvida (SheGeeks)
- Sarah Perez (readwriteweb)
- Alana Taylor (mashable)
- Marshall Kirkpatrick (readwriteweb, consultant)
- Cory Doctorow: (Blogger, journalist, sci-fi writer and co-editor of BoingBoing)
- Trent Reznor: (Nine Inch Nails frontman, provider of downloadable content)
- David Heinemeier Hansson: Creator of Ruby on Rails web application framework.
- David Winer: Pioneered weblogs, RSS, podcasts, outling and web content management software.
- Leo Laporte: Technology Journalist.
- Tim O’Reilly: Founder of O’Reilly Media, host of the Web 2.0 conference which introduced the Web 2.0 meme.
- Jared Lukes: Interactive Director at Catalyst Studios
So let’s hear the suggestions, omissions, complaints…
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does boing boing count as web 2.0? if so you definitely need cory doctorow on the list, he has webcomics written about him and everything (plus i’ve met him and he’s a lovely guy)
also for a *true* rockstar 2.0 trent reznor’d be on the list with the latest NiN ARG-type shenanigans.
p.s. she’s not quite a rockstar yet, but you might be interested in my friend laura’s blog/youtubecast for wieck media
Great suggestions. Can’t believe I forgot Cory….and I’m a NiN fan who’s written about their downloads…
Tops. Will include them in the list asap….
Absolutely Barack Obama and Don Tapscott. Both have actually drawn me into web 2.0 and made participation very meaningful.