Kings of the Internet: What You Don't Know about Them ?

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iUniverse, 18. apr 2012 - 228 pages

What's in the Book
The Internet is considered among one of those inventions of modern age which have just revolutionized the world. It's most powerful & versatile source of knowledge for every common man today. It has touched every aspect of our life. Be it some delicate medical condition, be it decorating your home and diet of your loving pets, be it finding the whereabouts of one of your dearest friend of your school, be it very personal problem in your life and many more; information pertaining to anything and everything that we can think of, can be obtained through the Internet.

In this book, You will be introduced with the masterminds who were behind the idea of creating a world at the back of a monitor screen. From just an idea, they have created technology that has brought about a difference in our lives. They who made our life easier by making our day to day work just a few click away. They who brought us close to our dear ones. They are referred to "Kings of Internet". They are the ones who took the technology to common hands with the powerful tools they have invented and transformed Internet into huge market place. Here we are trying to honor those Kings with few sentences on their early life, their struggle, the achievement they have made and their future place for us.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Sergey Brin CoFounder of Google
3
Larry Page CoFounder of Google
9
Mark ZuckerbergFounder of Facebook
13
Jack Dorsey Founder of Twitter
18
Guy Kawasaki Apple evangelist
21
Evan Williams Founder of Bloggercom
24
Jimmy Donal WalesFounder of Wikipedia
29
Christopher Poole Founder of 4chan
112
Kevin Rose Founder of Digg
116
Richard Johnson Founder of HotJobscom
126
Thomas Anderson Chris DeWolfe Founders of MySpacecom
133
VSS Mani Founder of JustDialcom Worth INR 500 crores or 116 billion
141
Tom Fulp Founder of Newgrounds
145
Deep Kalra Founder Chief Executive Officer of MakeMyTripcom
148
Andrew Gower Founder of RuneScape the worlds most popular free online multiplayer game
153

Jerry Yang David Filo CoFounders of Yahoo
33
Eric Schmidt CEO of Google
40
Steve Case CoFounder of AOL
43
Pierre Omidyar Founder of eBay
49
Jeff Bezos Founder of Amazoncom
56
Reid G Hoffman Founder of LinkedIn
64
Elon Musk Peter Thiel Founder of PayPal
71
Drew Curtis Founder of FARKcom
83
Chad Hurley Founder of YouTube
87
Blake Ross David Hyatt Founder of Mozilla software
94
Matt Mullenweg Founder of WordPress
101
Sabeer Bhatia Founder of Hotmail SabSeBolocom
109
Ryan Block Founder of wwwengadgetcom
162
Steve Jobs Founder of Apple Corp
168
Joshua Schachter founder of deliciouscom
178
Bill Gates CoFounder of Microsoft
180
Linus Torvalds Chief architect of the Linux Kernel
191
Garrett Gruener Founder and David Warthen CoFounder of Askcom
196
Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield Founders of Flickrcom
201
Steve Huffman Cofounder of Redditcom
205
Jeff Gold Founder of Gocom
209
Niklas Zennström Janus Friis and Samuel Gray Cofounders of Skype
211
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Mohammad Bahareth from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia published his first novel at the age of 26. Sherlock Holmes in 2012: Timeless Duel, His Book Micronations won Wagensberg Literary Award in 2019. He Wrote His First Published Article at the Age of 11, Forbes Middle East Listed him among the top 100 twitter influencers in 2011, His books are printed, sold, and read worldwide.His Books in Arabic are Best Sellers, Creating Simplicity with complex content, sharing dyslexic views of the world in his books, and articles published from Local Newspapers to international standards such as CNN.Returning the Favor he wrote Sherlock Holmes in 2012 Trilogy in 7 Years and he got approval from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Estate to license the use of the character as the first Arab to get this license. returning the favor by ending the story of Sherlock Holmes heroically and happily because it was the first book that he read and the character helped him overcome dyslexia"A Doctor Told me at the age of 10 that I could never be a writer, If I wrote a Book it would be a Miracle" Mohammad BaharethKnown for His Bold Initiatives, Arabian Space initiative sending Arabic text to the moon and mars to social initiatives such as Allow Youth initiative to allow single males in shopping malls and restaurants in Weekends and Vacation time, another initiative is environmental which calls for a ban on soda cans with a removable cover into a soda can with a non-removable cover to save the environment, another initiative calls for a ban on all genetically engineered food in his home country of Saudi Arabia, he is a bold as it gets.A YouTuber and a Public Speaker who Spoke about Dyslexia in TEDxJeddah in-front of thousands of people telling them how would the world have been without dyslexics and their contributions"When they told me you have Dyslexia, as a kid it's a complicated word for me but all I knew then that Einstein had it, I am gonna be ok" Mohammad BaharethMohammad was the president of the Youth Business Club of the College of Business Administration in 2006, Worked in Saudia Arabian Airlines in the print shop as his first summer job as a kid, and today he is the Chairman of Help Nation, Helped found Meem Bank and Makkah Region Youth Counsel.

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