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News Twitter CEO and co-founder, Evan Williams and Wikimedia founder and co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, took second and third places respectively. Also popular last month was... [09 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas about what's next for Wikipedia and why the site needs geeks of all kinds. With my tweet I'd been hoping to... [05 Nov 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is a familiar face on the Agenda Setters list and one whose star is rising. He made the top 10 in 2006; the top five in 2008; and lands in the top three this... [08 Oct 2009]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile As founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg topped the Agenda Setters list in 2007 after the social network really took off, but he plummeted to 47 last year as judges felt his time had passed. This year's return to... [08 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile Niklas Zennström is best known as co-founder of Skype - the voice over IP internet telephony service that has been enabling the wired world to talk for free since 2003 and, more recently, to indulge in video calling too. [08 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge.silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, Acorn's early days and... [07 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment Microsoft founder Bill Gates first championed the Tablet PC back in 2001 yet the form factor failed to make any significant dent in the universe. Or, Seb Janacek says, is Microsoft fighting an imaginary opponent? [01 Oct 2009]
Dr Robert Atkinson
AS Profile It's the first time the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (Itif) has made it into the Agenda Setters list. Dr Robert Atkinson and the influential Washington-based thinktank he... [01 Oct 2009]
Tom Steinberg
AS Profile Tom Steinberg's name might not immediately ring any bells but chances are that you've used his websites. Steinberg is the director of mySociety, a not-for-profit, open source organisation that set up the TheyWorkForYou website, which... [30 Sep 2009]
Shai Agassi
AS Profile Like fellow Agenda Setter Elon Musk, Shai Agassi has a history of notable achievements in tech - in Agassi's case, founding start-ups and working his way up the ranks of SAP - but he got the panel's nod this year for his influential work... [30 Sep 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the XO - the device... [30 Sep 2009]
Nandan Nilekani
AS Profile Most people would be satisfied with being a co-founder of the Indian outsourcing giant Infosys and a foundation member of the World Economic Forum. But this year Nilekani will embark on what is arguably his toughest... [30 Sep 2009]
Martha Lane Fox
AS Profile Lane Fox shot to fame in the late 1990s as the founder of the dot-com travel company lastminute.com, and remained on the company's board until its sale in 2005. Martha Lane Fox earned her place in the Agenda Setters list... [30 Sep 2009]
Ray Kurzweil
AS Profile He's also a businessman, consultant, lecturer and most recently founder and chancellor of the Singularity University - a multidisciplinary institution for both budding entrepreneurs and CEOs. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist... [29 Sep 2009]
Mike Lynch
AS Profile Mike Lynch is one of the UK's most successful technology entrepreneurs. He is continuing to lead the UK software charge as his intelligent search and knowledge management company Autonomy continues to up its revenues and profits and... [29 Sep 2009]
