Kevin founded Digg, one of the most successful web 2.0 sites, on 1st Jan 2004. Since then it has grown into one of the most visited sites on the internet (top 10 according to Alexa). Before Digg, Kevin was already a tech celeb due to a number of TV programmes on TechTV.

CEO and founder of Digitalpoint solutions is most known among webmasters for the Digitalpoint forums. In 2006 he was involved in a high profile lawsuit after the MPAA suid him for sharing a copy of Meet the Fockers, although legally owning a DVD.

Although he has been a bit out of the limelight recently, he remains one of the people that have shaped the internet as it is today. As the creator of Linux, a free open source operating system, he was one of the first to coordinate the online community to build something together.

Mark is the co-founder and CEO of facebook. While studying at Harvard he started Facebook together with some fellow students. He eventually dropped out of Harvard and has done very well since. He recently turned down a $750 million bid for Facebook,currently the fastest growing social networking site. Facebook is expected to overtake myspace around mid 2008 and become the largest social networking site.

Hasn t done anything worth mentioning, but was still the most looked up term in 2006...

Seth, the marketing Guru, is often quoted online and offline. He has written a number of reference works like All marketeers are lyers and Unleashing the Ideavirus , which he claims is the most popular e-book ever (>1.000.000 downloads). If you are serious about online marketing, you need to have his blog on your list.

Larry cofounded Google when studying at Stanford. The huge growth of Google has made him the 26th richest man in the world with an estimated fortune of $16.6 billion. Officially he has not dropped out of university as he is still on leave from his PHD programme

Hao Wu is the most famous Chinese blogger that has been arrested by the Chinese government and locked away without trial. Only after a high profile, international campaign by Amnesty international was he freed.

This Swedish guy must be the most successful enterpreneur. He managed to set up not one, not two, but three successful ventures. He started off with the Kazaa fileshare service, followed by Skype, and his latest venture Joost is a video sharing service that is quickly gathering pace.

Markus is a hero for every webmaster trying to earn a living with Google Adsense. On a monthly basis he earns about $1 million CAD ($950.000) with Adsense alone from his free website plentyoffish.

Everybody in the SEO industry is hanging on every word he writes down. Working for Google as head of Web Spam he has a deep knowledge how the Google ranking algorithms work and regularly shares the new things Google is working on. His blog, http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ is a must read for every webmasters.