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His Million Dollar Homepage project started in August, 2005. Began selling blocks of pixels on his page. Buyers could use the space for advertising or whatever they wished.
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Alex Tew
By Jan 2006, he had exceeded over 1 million dollars. |
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Founded Technorati, a search engine that indexes over 100 million blogs (112.8 million blogs and 250 million pieces of tagged social media as of May 22, 2008).
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David Sifry
Silfry is an Open Source proponent, and is a frequent speaker on the subjects of web technology, wireless and blogging. In addition, he’s frequently interviewed or quoted in tech and business magazines, including The Guardian and The Economist. |
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The founder of Read/WriteWeb, a blog about technology issues and Web 2.0 developments that has been rated as one of the world’s 50 most popular blogs (by Technorati).
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Richard MacManus
Prior to his blogging career, MacManus was a researcher, analyst and author, writing for ZDNet; he still consults for various technology companies, primarily those based in Silicon Valley. |
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Blog CodingHorror.com is a popular choice for those interested in web development and software programming in general. Recently joined up with Joel On Software Spolsky to create a new programming resource site, stackoverflow.com, currently under development.
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Jeff Atwood
Online since 2004, Atwood has a dedicated audience (over 60,000 RSS subscribers) and significant site traffic, estimated at over half a million unique visitors per month. |
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Best known as the popular anchor, co-producer and co-owner of Rocketboom, one of the most widely viewed video blogs on the web. She stayed with the show from 2004 through 2006.
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Amanda Congdon
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Founder of Fark.com, started in 1999 is a social news aggregator web site. Fark readers submit links to interesting (and/or controversial) items from other web sites and Fark administrators choose whether to promote these to the Fark.com front page; the items are tagged so they can be divided into related forums.
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Drew Curtis
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A comedian and motivational speaker who posted a video on YouTube in 2006, looking for his fifteen minutes of Internet fame The Evolution of Dance.
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Judson Laipply
As of May, 2008, it has been viewed nearly 86 million times and nearly 160,000 people have left comments. |
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Chief Lizard Wrangler of Mozilla
Given the enormous importance that the Mozilla Foundation is taking in recent years, she was included in the Time’’s 100 most important people in the world list (2005). |
Mitchell Baker
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Probably best known on the web as the co-founder of the blog Boing Boing, based on bOING bOING magazine, which he also co-founded. He’s been a print columnist with a wide range of publications, including Playboy, The New York Times Magazine and Wired (where he was an editor for 5 years). He is currently Editor-In-Chief of Make magazine.
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Mark Frauenfelder
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Discretionary Exclusion of Relevant Evidence
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A trial judge has broad discretion to exclude relevant evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of issues, misleading the jury, undue delay, or waste of time (but NOT unfair surprise).
Montana Rule 403. Exclusion of relevant evidence on grounds of prejudice, confusion, or waste of time. Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence. |
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She holds the high profile position of co-editor at the blog Boing Boing , and contributes material to Wired, wired.com, Make, Popular Science, Playboy, and editorial pieces for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
She is a correspondent for NPR radio show Day to Day and has put in guest appearances as a technology commentator on ABC, CNN, Fox, G4TechTV and BBC5 radio. Also appears as the co-host of Boing Boing’s daily web-based video show BoingBoingtv. |
Xeni Jardin
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As Editor-in-Chief of technology blog Engadget, he has considerable influence in how computer, home electronic and technology-related products in general are received. To gain some perspective of how much influence a leading technology blog can have, consider that a 2007 Engadget post by Block about a possible iPhone and OSX release delay, based on a faked Apple e-mail, drove down Apple’s share price by 2.2% within a matter of minutes.
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Ryan Block
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He founded and is the main author of the well-known political commentary blog Daily Kos. With a membership of over 125,000 registered readers and postings by prominent Democratic political figures including Jimmy Carter, John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi, Daily Kos currently attracts 600,000 daily visitors.
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Markos Moulitsas
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A self-described “disruptive Internet entrepreneur,” he is the co-founder (with Niklas Zennstrom) of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) KaZaA network and went on with Zennstrom to co-found Internet telephony company Skype, investment company Atomico and P2P video distribution system Joost.
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Janus Friis
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In 1999 he hit a home run founding Alibaba.com. The site works as a business to business marketplace, and it became successful in connecting foreign companies to Chinese ones. The popularity of the website grew so much that in 2005 Yahoo! decided to purchase 40% of it, offering in exchange US$1 billion plus the assets of Yahoo! China.
In November of 2007 Alibaba.com was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, raising a total of US$1.5 billion. It was the second largest IPO for an Internet company, after Google. |
Jack Ma
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Co-founded BitTorrent in 2002 and the game was on.
BitTorrent protocol facilitates distribution of large files by breaking them into smaller pieces, with multiple recipients and sharers all swapping file bits instead of a single host server distributing an entire file. From a copyright enforcement perspective, BitTorrent means tracking and shutting down a single file uploader has little or no impact on file availability. |
Bram Cohen
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Is the founder and CEO of Linden Lab, creator of virtual world Second Life. Second Life claims to have over 2 million subscribers and has become an important point of contact for real-life personalities and organizations that establish a Second Life presence to interact with subscribers.
With the runaway success of Second life, his contribution to online society has been noted in Business 2.0, USA Today and Time magazine. His career prior to founding Linden Labs includes serving as Vice President and CTO at RealNetworks, where he launched a series of computer media products including RealVideo. |
Philip Rosedale
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In 2006, He turned from game development to his blog on personal development . On his site, he describes himself as “perhaps the most intensely growth-oriented individual you will ever meet,” and claims his site to be the world’s most popular personal development site, with over 1.8 million visitors per month. In a 2007 interview, he notes that his blogging generates nearly $40,000 per month in earnings.
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Steve Pavlina
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Lead Editor for Gawker Media’s personal productivity blog Lifehacker, a role that has also spawned the books Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better and Lifehacker: 88 Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day.
Lifehacker is one of the most popular blogs on the web, with its 2006 readership estimated at 7 million page views per month and over 100,000 RSS subscribers; Lifehacker has received accolades from CNET, Wired, Time and others. |
Gina Trapani
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A software engineer, is best known as the creator of LiveJournal, a blogging virtual community with accompanying Open Source server software; part of his Danga Interactive company, which he sold to blogging software company Six Apart in 2005.
Took the position of Chief Architect with Six Apart, but left the company in 2007 for a position with Google. A supporter of the Open Source movement, is responsible for the development of other projects including MogileFS, Djabberd and Perlbal. |
Brad Fitzpatrick
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Is a journalist, media personality and host or co-host of a slew of technology industry-themed podcasts, shows and videos. She was also named to a Sexiest Geek list.
Originally joined CNET as a producer and sound engineer, but soon grew beyond her background role and began making appearances, eventually co-hosting CNET podcasts including MP3 Insider and CRAVE Gadget Blog. Leaving CNET for Mahalo in 2007, she hosted her own video show, Malaho Daily. In 2008, she left Malaho for Revision3, where she is now co-host of Tekzilla. |
Veronica Belmont
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Co-founder of WordPress, The Global Multimedia Protocols Group, Akismet (a splog-blocking service), worked for CNET, and most recently, co-founded the company Automattic. Was named to PC World’s 50 Most Important People on the Web list in 2007.
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Matt Mullenweg
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ProBlogger and Digital Photography School, his digital photography site, are estimated to generate over 50,000 page views per day between them and generate in excess of $20,000 per month in advertising revenue. ProBlogger, which offers blogging tips and advice, is often cited as one of the web’s top blogs.
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Darren Rowse
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