Kings of the Internet: What You Don't Know about Them ?iUniverse, 18. apr 2012 - 228 pages What's in the Book 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 |