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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. Summing up... [08 Oct 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. The wiki is a pervasive and visionary milestone for web 2.0," as one... [08 Oct 2009]
Mike Lynch
AS Profile Lynch has fallen down the Agenda Setters list from a high of five last year - despite the company acquiring US content-management software specialist Interwoven for $775m at the beginning of the year. [29 Sep 2009]
Dave Girouard
AS Profile The main reason why the Agenda Setters judges included Girouard alongside his CEO, Eric Schmidt, is that he has led Google's successful expansion of its business-to-consumer model to the business-to-business arena. [29 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Another panellist added: "You don't need to search far to realise that Google is the company that more than anything is now setting Microsoft's agenda for it. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the... [29 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile It's not the first time Twitter has featured in the silicon.com Agenda Setters list, its rise since last year is marked: then the three co-creators (Williams, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone) were collectively ranked 22nd, a... [29 Sep 2009]
There's still a place for paper in a digital world - just don't drown
Comment With cost control and compliance initiatives high on the agenda these days, many businesses are turning to document capture products to transform their paper and electronic document workflows. This enables both paper and... [15 Jul 2009]
Ask the Experts: How can I get to use a Mac at work?
Comment If you take the 'go into battle' option, you need to find allies in the company - the higher up the better - and get them in on the agenda. You can also search out all the giant corporations using Macs... [17 Feb 2009]
Microsoft CEO: "Not interested" in Yahoo!
News Agenda Setters 2008 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. We tried at one point to do a partnership around search, not advertising.... [07 Nov 2008]
IT contractors search for job security
News Agenda Setters 2008 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. Long-term unemployment is on the up for UK IT contractors and job security fears are... [28 Oct 2008]
Twitter steps up fight against spam
News The Twitter co-founders were voted onto silicon.com's exclusive Agenda Setters list this year, which details the most influential individuals in tech. The company is looking to hire a spam engineer, preferably one who... [17 Oct 2008]
Artificial intelligence put to the Turing Test
News The prize was founded in 1990 by academic Hugh Loebner and this year's challenge - to be held at the University of Reading on Sunday 12 October - is the 18th annual contest.silicon.com caught up with Loebner, who was recently voted into... [10 Oct 2008]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Jimmy Wales, founder of Wiki Media - and creator of the popular and sometimes controversial user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia - is back on the Agenda Setters list after a year-long hiatus. Wales made his... [07 Oct 2008]
Robin Li
AS Profile Robin Li attracted the praise of the Agenda Setters judges for taking search in China beyond the offerings of the established players such as Google with the creation of Baidu, and also building a range... [07 Oct 2008]
Mike Lynch
AS Profile After missing out last year, previous Agenda Setter Mike Lynch returns to the list with an all time high at number five. But it's not just for Autonomy's success that Lynch caught the Agenda Setters... [07 Oct 2008]
