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Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment In an exclusive interview, former MySQL boss and silicon.com Agenda Setter, Marten Mickos talks to Tim Ferguson about the state of open source, Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems and the value of... [19 Nov 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile This year the serial entrepreneur continues to be a serial Agenda Setter, landing just outside the top 10 in 11th place. As such, he's a regular feature on the Agenda Setters list. As... [08 Oct 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... [30 Sep 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile Negroponte's laptop earns him his place on this year's Agenda Setter's list not only for his practical approach for getting millions of children onto the internet and for helping to inspire the netbook... [30 Sep 2009]
Matt Mullenweg
AS Profile One Agenda Setter panellist said he voted for Mullenweg for "setting the pace with kick-ass authoring platform and tools. Matt Mullenweg is the 25-year-old founder of technology... [29 Sep 2009]
Why green tech is more influential than ever
News Asus CEO, Jonney Shih and 31st placed Agenda Setter, made the cut partly for the fact that the mini PC technology his company has pioneered, the Eee PC, is also pushing the low power... [08 Oct 2008]
Leader: Who's setting tech's agenda this year?
Leader Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away with this year's top Agenda Setter accolade, according to the aggregated votes from silicon.com's panel of experts. Unlike, say, Rupert... [15 Oct 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis Or that holding a CEO's office is no sign in itself of being an Agenda Setter? But this area of technology still makes its presence felt on the Agenda Setters list through a few... [12 Oct 2007]
CIO power
AS Analysis In the past, few figures from user organisations have secured an Agenda Setter ranking. Agenda Setters panellist Richard Sykes, consultant and silicon.com editorial board member, said... [12 Oct 2007]
Michael Arrington
AS Profile Arrington has a "huge amount of power" in the entrepreneurial and venture capital community, according to one of the Agenda Setter panellists, and his inclusion in the top 50 shows the growing power of... [12 Oct 2007]
Colonel Gaddafi buys 1.2 million cheap laptops
News According to The New York Times, silicon.com Agenda Setter Negroponte has revealed Libya has agreed to purchase 1.2 million of the cheap Linux laptops. The deal is thought to be costing Libya around... [12 Oct 2006]
Google grabs YouTube for $1.65bn
News From the YouTube side, co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley - who polled ninth in this year's silicon.com Agenda Setter list - described their excitement at taking advantage of Google's deep pockets... [10 Oct 2006]
The Murdoch factor
AS Analysis Rupert Murdoch is the Agenda Setter that time and tide simply cannot displace. But Murdoch now stands alone as the uber-Agenda Setter. He is the only person to have... [25 Sep 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Steve Jobs
News Our bet is Jobs does at least as well on the Agenda Setter poll as last year - if not better.silicon.com's Agenda Setters panel, made up again of CIOs, analysts, VCs,... [20 Sep 2005]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Eric Schmidt
News In short, one of the main Agenda Setter criteria is longevity - can an individual go on and replicate success again and again, no matter which organisation they're at? Ironically a higher profile may be... [05 Sep 2005]
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