 Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web, 20 years ago. Since then he's been at the forefront of efforts to create web standards; that mean's we all have one Web worldwide.
He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a Web standards organisation founded in 1994, which develops; technologies, guidelines, software and tools in order to lead the web to its full potential. A founding Director of the Web Science Trust, recently launched in 2009 which helps promote research and educate Web science - a study of humanity connected to technology.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that Sir Tim will work with the UK Government to help more data be more open and accessible on the web, building on the work of the Power of Information Task Force - He's kind of a hero of our's and we're sure you can see why. At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" - for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. The Talks: The next web | The year open data went worldwide | On the web: W3 | On Twitter: @timberners_lee
---  Pete Cashmore is a new media expert, technology consultant, and founder of Mashable, which is one of the top-twenty blogs in the world according to Technorati.
Founded in July 2005, the site focuses on all thats new on the Web including information about social networks, websites, and content. Cashmore was selected as a top 25 Forbes Web Celeb in 2007 and has also been featured in Business Week Magazine. He writes a weekly column about social media and networking for CNN.com. The Mashable brand is available on mobile by downloading a free superb app, simply called 'Mashable'. He is certainly an influential, charasmatic and inspiring figure in the world of new media. We recommend that you bookmark his site Mashable. On the web: Mashable | On Twitter: @mashable ---  Jonathan Ive CBE - he is the senior vice president for Industrial Design at Apple.
London born designer Jonathan Ive, reporting directly to the CEO. Since 1996 he has been responsible for leading a design team widely regarded as one of the worlds best.Recognized with numerous design awards, Apple products are featured in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including MOMA in New York and the Pompidou in Paris. Ive holds a Bachelor of Arts and an honorary doctorate from Newcastle Polytechnic. In 2003 he was named Designer of the Year by the Design Museum London and awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry by The Royal Society of Arts. On the web: Design Museum | On You Tube: Here ---  Chris Anderson - currently the editor in chief of Wired magazine.
Before Chris Anderson took over as editor of WIRED,he spent seven years at The Economist, where he worked as editor of both the technology and business sections. Anderson holds a degree in physics and has conducted research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and has done stints at the leading journals Nature and Science. He's perhaps most famous for coining the term "the long tail," a whiteboard favorite that describes the business strategy of pursuing many little fish (versus a few big fish), as typified by both Amazon and Netflix. The Talks: Tech's Long Tail | On the web: His Blog | On Twitter: @chr1sa
---  John Batelle is a founder, chairman and CEO of Federated Media (FM), which is a next-generation media and publishing company that connects the highest-quality conversational content with leading brand marketers. John Battelle, 42, is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded scores of online, conference, magazine and other media businesses.
Prior to founding Federated Media, Battelle co-founded and continues to serve as Executive Producer of the Web 2.0 Summit conference, as well as band manager with BoingBoing.net. Once each year, Web 2.0 Summit gathers the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet and media industries for a conversation that never fails to stimulate, push, and surprise. Previously, Battelle occupied the Bloomberg chair in Business Journalism for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He was founder, Chairman, and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to that, he was a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures. FM works with many of the top blogs, websites and social networking applications on the Web as well as some of the world's leading brands. On the web: FM | Blog | On Twitter: @federated_media ---  Martha Lane-Fox co-founded lastminute.com, Europe's largest travel and leisure website in 1997. After selling the company in 2005 she co-founded Lucky Voice.
In 2007 she launched Antigone, a grant-giving foundation that supports education, health and criminal justice. She is a non-executive director at Marks & Spencer, Channel 4 Television and Mydeco.
In June 2009 she accepted the role of Champion for Digital Inclusion. On the web: Martha | On Twitter:@marthalanefox | On TV: BBC ---
 When you co-found and run a company whose name has become a commonly used verb, you definitely have influence. Google is, of course, the most popular search engine, but it’s so much more.
From ad revenue to email users to cellphone operating system rollouts, Google has broken all the records, and it shows no signs of slowing down. To a large extent, as Google goes, so goes the Internet, and that makes Larry Page highly influential.
On the web: Google | Blog ---
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