HuffPost Game Changers: Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Technology?

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HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world. With your help, we've picked 10 people who are changing the game in Tech. We honor and salute them.

Now it's up to you to pick the Ultimate Technology Game Changer. Click through the slideshow below, get the lowdown on why we chose them, then VOTE. We'll reveal the Ultimate 10 in November.

PETE CASHMORE

Current Status: Translating geek-speak for the curious and converted



Changing The Game By: Taking social media mainstream. Cashmore, a college dropout and self-described "quiet type," grew Mashable into a one-stop-shop social media hub. Mashable dishes up digestible bites of tech wisdom that appeal to both nerds and newbies, highlighting not only what's new on Twitter, Facebook, and the social Web, but what to do with it. It also offers up the hunky Cashmore -- nicknamed the "Brad Pitt of the blogosphere" -- to Mashable's readers, nearly 50 percent of whom are female. Mashable's recent partnership with CNN is also mashing up new, social, and mainstream media, showing just how blurred the boundaries have become.



Killer Quote: "I'd wager that the high price of not capturing and sharing every moment of our lives will soon dwarf the cost to our privacy."



Must Click Link: Mashable.com

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[DaithiO]

09:46 PM on 11/10/2009

So what's with all this "Game Changer" stuff? People love their catch words, but while they make good slogans they do not indicate serious thought. Let's consider real issues, and forget the slogans and jargon.

[dhinds]

05:51 PM on 11/08/2009

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

[dhinds]

05:32 PM on 11/08/2009

I should have mentioned that Tim Berners-Lee DONATED the www technology in order to contribute to the development of society. He prevented the www from becoming entrenched in the private domain, creating a truly public, almost universal interactive medium.

The addition of color graphics, sound and movement to what had been a text only medium increased the Internet's popularity and propitiated the investment in infrastructure that allows so many of us to use it for communications, information procurement, telephony, document interchange and even the financing of political campaigns (Barack Obama would never have become POTUS without the agile use of the web that his campaign implemented).

No one has created more change than Tim Berners-Lee. Based on this medium however, the open-source software movement is going to further a culture of sharing and mutual assistance that is what America and the World really needs; so don't forget Bill Stallings (and many more).

[wagadog]

01:10 AM on 11/18/2009

Ok Dion, we know you have a man crush on Timmeh but really...What about Mark Shuttleworth? James Clark? Lawrence Lessig? Or for that matter, Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen...Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan...after all, without Unix there may well nave never been an internet, since most of the development of various application protocols built on top of tcp/ip took place on BSD boxes -- which is why unix had the best tcp/ip stack for most of the 80's and 90's.

But yah, Timmeh is right up there at the top. Thanks for having a second and third go at saying it.

[dhinds]

05:14 PM on 11/08/2009

Oops - that's www.w3.org/

[dhinds]

05:10 PM on 11/08/2009

The man that's changed the world most is without a doubt Tim Berners-Lee www.w3c.org

[wiley14]

11:07 PM on 11/07/2009

More than half of the people on this list are complete hacks and the other half are douches.

[archyblue]

03:10 PM on 11/07/2009

Poor list, I'm unimpressed.

[woundedduck]

02:24 PM on 11/07/2009

Apple is the most devious branding effort since Coke. Mac people think they're special, which has everything to do with Apple telling people what to think about themselves, and little to do with technology. Appealing to people's innate egotistical blindness will always be lucrative, however.

[Intelligentia]

05:09 PM on 11/06/2009

Also, this genius:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxSL2L1tQBw

[ramblingjohnny]

04:36 PM on 11/06/2009

Wait no Linus Torvald and no reference to the whole Open Source movement! That list is lacking!

[wagadog]

12:30 PM on 11/07/2009

Excellent point.

This list tells us more about where HuffPo gets its tech information than about who the actual game changers are. What about Mark Shuttleworth? James Clark? Lawrence Lessig? Or for that matter, Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen...Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan...after all, without Unix there may well nave never been an internet, since most of the development of various application protocols built on top of tcp/ip took place on BSD boxes -- which is why unix had the best tcp/ip stack for most of the 80's and 90's.

The first versions of Mosaic (the predecessor of Netscape) were written for Unix workstations running the X window system, and in fact you invoked it from the command line with 'xmosaic'. It came with the earliest versions of httpd, the predecessor of the Apache http server. These were all circulating in the university community for years before you could even get Winsock for your Windows box -- if you wanted a tcp/ip stack you had to use KA9Q under DOS, for crying out loud. Don't get me started.

The *tech* game changers are not the pretty boys touted in the Next Big Thing press in the Valley of the Silly Cones. Or the alley. Their innovation is that they figured out various ways of making money on the basis of technology primarily developed in an open source environment.

Anyway...I wonder which distribution the White House uses? They switched to Linux, know.

[Intelligentia]

04:16 PM on 11/06/2009

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...... If Gore invented the internet, I wonder what this guy has to say about that:

http://www.blackwebportal.com/wire/DA.cfm?ArticleID=558

His website is here: http://emeagwali.com/

[Eris23]

12:53 PM on 11/06/2009

*YAWN*