Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee used a keynote speech at the event to launch the World Wide Web Foundation, a group set up to use the web to drive social and economic change, largely in the developing world.
Actress, web-series creator and geek icon Felicia Day appeared to be the only person to qualify, taking the No. 39 spot with 2, 587 followers.
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"It's nothing new for children to follow in the footsteps of their parent's occupation, " says the Web site's creator Dale Berryhill of any profession, be it in showbiz or elsewhere.
Known mostly as creator of a Web browser widely used in China, Qihoo recently jumped into the search market, and appears to be getting considerable traction.
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They have managed to assemble a stellar cast list - including the creator of the World Wide Web, the founders of YouTube and Lastminute, and a member of the Royal Family - and persuade them to be mildly teased by a group of school children.
Jon Hein, the creator of the Jumptheshark.com Web site -- which charts the rise and fall of TV shows and other pop culture -- says "The Simpsons" is by far the most popular topic on his Web site, and there have been rumblings that the show has leaped the fish, or at least started turning into chum.
Unlike other challenges released by Overthewire, Natas focuses exclusively on exploiting web security bugs in servers, according to its creator, Steven Van Acker, a computer science graduate student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
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He also wrote about software agents that go out into the network and come back with any information you want. (Sound a little like a search engine?) Bear and Benford also created fictional global networks long before the World Wide Web was a gleam in the eye of its creator Tim Berners Lee.
This is a bigger-than-normal-blog deal because Hansson is a partner at a design outfit called 37signals, like Groupon based in Chicago and a creator and popularizer many of the tools used in Web 2.0 (Wired has a good story on them here.) Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is an investor and advisor.
Instead of getting one for you, though, you are enabled to be a creator, more easily responding to what is on the Web.
Its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, was determined that the web should be an open system, not a series of walled gardens controlled by governments or corporations.
Of the top 100 most popular YouTube channels that aren't industry-sponsored, there is one black creator, four Asians and one of Middle Eastern descent, according to Web researcher Jenny Unghba Korn.
In the era of the social Web, journalism can best fulfill its essential mission to inform when the knowledgeable content creator (journalist or otherwise) connects, or transacts, one-on-one with the interested consumer.
But there are also free ways to get ringtones, like the ringtone creator application on Facebook -- one of several ringtone applications on the social-networking Web site -- that make setting ringtones all the more appealing.
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