Web's Top Innovators, Influencers Named to Internet Evolution 100

NEW YORK, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning B2B social networking site Internet Evolution has published its first list of the 100 most innovative, influential people who determine the ways we use and experience everything in the Web 2.0 world.  

Working with nominations from readers and message board moderators, Internet Evolution then whittled the list down to 10 people in each of 10 categories: social networking; enterprise and cloud computing; news/media; greentech; wireless and gadgets; e-commerce; search; security; digital entertainment... and most over-rated.

The full report can be accessed here:

http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=190304

"Our categories really cover the breadth of the Web 2.0 experience for business users and consumers," says Terry Sweeney, Editor in Chief of Internet Evolution. "There are some familiar names – Mark Zuckerberg, Rupert Murdoch, and Craig Newmark – but also some less familiar ones like Randi Levin, CTO for the City of Los Angeles, or Guido Bartels of IBM, who's also the chairman of the GridWise Alliance."

About Internet Evolution

Internet Evolution (www.internetevolution.com) hosts more than 200 world-famous Internet experts – such as Kevin Mitnick, once the most-wanted computer hacker in the world; Dr. Lawrence Roberts, inventor of packet switching, and one of the world's foremost authorities on telecom network architectures; Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google – all of whom are addressing today's critical socio-economic issues within its ThinkerNet blogosphere. In December 2009, March 2009, Internet Evolution's ThinkerNet won Min's Best-of-Web award for best blog, beating out Time, Newsweek, and Martha Stewart Living; in March 2009, Min's awarded Internet Evolution Internet Digital Team of the Year, Best Community/Social Networking Site, and Best B2B Magazine-Branded Video.

About UBM TechWeb

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology.  Through its core businesses – media solutions, marketing services and professional information – UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands, applications and services in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs, IT and IT Support managers, Web & Digital professionals, Software and Game developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively participate in UBM TechWeb's communities. UBM TechWeb brands includes: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Game Developers Conference (GDC), Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; large-scale online networks such as InformationWeek, Light Reading and Gamasutra; research, training and certification services, including HDI, Pyramid Research and InformationWeek Analytics; and market-leading magazines such as InformationWeek and Wall Street & Technology.  UBM TechWeb is part of UBM, a global provider of media and information services for professional B2B communities and markets.

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com

SOURCE Internet Evolution

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