A list of most important webbies from PCWORLD.COM despite myself being declared as the most powerful person of the year by Time magazine :). In case if you are looking for a comprehensive list, here it is. You will be familiar with most of them.
- Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin – Executives, Google
- Steve Jobs – CEO, Apple
- Bram Cohen – Cofounder, BitTorrent
- Mike Morhaime – President, Blizzard Entertainment
- Jimmy Wales – Founder, Wikipedia
- John Doerr – Venture capitalist, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers
- Craig Newmark – Founder, Craigslist
- Peter Levinsohn – President, Fox Interactive Media
- Marissa Mayer – Vice president for search products & user experience, Google
- Chad Hurley and Steve Chen – Founders, YouTube
- Kevin J. Martin – Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
- Brad Templeton – Chairman of the board, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Henry Chon – CEO, Cyworld
- Shana Fisher – Senior vice president for strategy and M&A, IAC/InterActiveCorp
- Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis – Founders, Skype and KaZaA
- Matt Mullenweg – Developer, WordPress blogging site and software
- Philip Rosedale – CEO, Linden Lab
- Jon Lech Johansen – Creator, DeCSS decryption program
- Jerry Yang, David Filo, and Terry Semel – Executives, Yahoo
- Jack Ma – COO, Alibaba.com
- Brewster Kahle – Director, Internet Archive
- Ray Ozzie – Chief software architect, Microsoft
- Markos Moulitsas Zuniga – Blogger, Daily Kos
- Jeff Bezos – CEO, Amazon
- Robert Scoble – Vice president of media development, PodTech.net
- John Battelle – Entrepreneur and chairman, Federated Media Publishing
- Lawrence Lessig – CEO, Creative Commons
- Meg Whitman – CEO, eBay
- Ron Wyden – U.S. Senator, Oregon
- Michael Arrington – Blogger/publisher, TechCrunch
- Bruce Schneier – Cryptographer
- Kevin Rose – Founder, Digg
- David Farber – Founder, Interesting-People.org
- John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff – Authors, PowerLine
- Vinton G. Cerf – Chairman, ICANN Board of Directors, and vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google
- Tim O’Reilly – Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media
- Drew Curtis – Founder, Fark.com
- Gabe Rivera – Creator, Techmeme
- Dave Winer – Blogger and author of RSS 2.0
- Mike Schroepfer – Vice president of engineering, Mozilla
- Perez Hilton – Hollywood blogger
- Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, and Jessica Livingston – Founders, Y Combinator
- Mikko H. Hypponen – Director of antivirus research, F-Secure
- Rob Malda – Founder, Slashdot.org
- Nick Denton – Founder, Gawker Media
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee – Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Leo Laporte – Creator, This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast
- Mohammed and Omar Fadhil – Blogging voice of Iraq
- Jesse James Garrett – President, Adaptive Path
- Tila Tequila – MySpace Personality
Don’t be surprised if you didn’t know few of them. I myself I didn’t heard about half of them but then this list appeared useless to me when it doesn’t include Blake Ross of Firefox.
You can have a look at Yahoo’s coverage and listing of all 50 on one page on Yahoo! News.