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BUSINESS / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
List: Top Ten Agenda Setters in the Tech Industry
Date: August 2006
Source: www.silicon.com
Base: A panel of ten convened in central London on 29 August 2006 and each chose 20 'Agenda Setters' in order. Results were aggregated to come up with the final top 50.
Notes: Follow the link above to found out who the panellists were, more infomration about each of the nominees and results of previous polls by the Silicon.com team.
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Rank
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Agenda Setter
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Notes
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1
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Ray Ozzie
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Chief software architect at Microsoft
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2
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The Next Generation
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The kids are united
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3
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Eric Schmidt
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Chairman and CEO of Google
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4
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Rupert Murdoch
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Media mogul
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5
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Steve
Jobs
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Apple CEO
and founder
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6
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Nicholas
Negroponte
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CEO MIT
Media Labs
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7
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Jimmy
Wales
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Founder of Wikipedia
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8
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Ashley
Highfield
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New media
and technology beeboid
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9
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Chad Hurley and Steven Chen
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Co-founders
of YouTube
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10
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Niklas
Zennstrom
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CEO and co-founder, Skype
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