Internet Evolution has released its list of the 100 most innovative, influential people on the Internet, based on nominations from its readers and message board moderators.

Internet Evolution’s 10 most influential people in each category are as follows:

1. Social Networking

1. Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Facebook
2. Kevin Rose, Founder, Digg
3. Jonathan Miller, Chief Digital Officer, News Corp. (MySpace)
4. Philip Rosedale, Founder, Second Life
5. Jeff Weiner, CEO, LinkedIn
6. Caterina Fake, Founder, Flickr
7. Adam Christensen, Social Media Communications Manager, IBM
8. Jonathan Abrams, Founder, Friendster
9. Mark Goldston, CEO, United Online
10. Jason Rosenthal, CEO, Ning.com

2. Enterprise and Cloud Computing

1. Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco
2. Bradley Horowitz, VP, Product Management, Google Apps
3. Andy Stanford-Clark, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
4. Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon
5. Amitabh Srivastava, SVP, Server & Cloud Division, Microsoft
6. Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO, Salesforce.com
7. Simon Crosby, CTO, Citrix
8. Randi Levin, CTO, City of Los Angeles, California
9. Andrew Brown, Managing Director, Bank of America
10. Manesh Patel, CIO, Sanmina-SCI

3. News and Media

1. Rupert Murdoch, CEO, News Corp.
2. Fiona Spruill, Editor, Web Newsroom, The New York Times
3. Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post
4. Jim Walton, President, CNN Worldwide (including CNN.com)
5. Matt Drudge, Founder, Drudge Report
6. Michael Arrington, Founder, TechCrunch
7. Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired
8. Julian Assange, Co-Founder, WikiLeaks
9. Chris Tolles, CEO, Topix
10. Cory Doctorow, Editor, Boing Boing

4. Greentech

1. Steven Chu, Secretary, US Department of Energy
2. Hal La Flash, Director of Emerging Clean Energy Technologies, PG&E
3. Guido Bartels, Managing Director, IBM; Chairman, GridWise Alliance
4. Elon Musk, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Tesla Motors
5. Chuck Powers, IT Strategist, National Renewable Energy Lab
6. Paul Maritz, CEO, VMWare
7. Joel Selanikio, Software Developer
8. Lisa Wood, Executive Director, Institute for Electric Efficiency
9. Andres Carvallo, EVP & Chief Strategy Officer, Grid Net
10. KR Sridhar, CEO & Co-Founder, Bloom Energy

5. Wireless and Gadgets

1. Steve Jobs, Co-Founder & CEO, Apple
2. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO, Nokia
3. Kevin Dallas, General Manager, Windows Embedded Business Unit, Microsoft
4. David Yach, CTO, Software, Research In Motion (RIM)
5. Android Designers: Andy Rubin (Co-Founder of Danger), Rich Miner (Co-Founder of Wildfire Communications), Nick Sears (Ex-VP at T-Mobile), and Chris White (headed design and interface development at WebTV)
6. Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman & CEO, Verizon
7. Greg Brown, Sanjay Jha, Co-CEOs, Motorola
8. Min Kao, Chairman & CEO, Garmin
9. Jeff Hawkins, Palm
10. Don Eigler, IBM Fellow, IBM

6. E-Commerce

1. Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon.com
2. Pierre Omidyar, Founder & Chairman, eBay
3. Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist
4. Barry Diller, Chairman, Expedia
5. Scott Thompson, President, PayPal
6. Michael Dell, CEO, Dell.com
7. Raul Vazquez, President & CEO, WalMart.com
8. Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp
9. Greg Blatt, CEO, Match.com
10. Joey Levin, CEO, MyFunCards.com (Mindspark Interactive Network)

7. Search

1. Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Founders, Google
2. Stefan Weitz, Director of Search, Microsoft
3. Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo
4. Jason Calacanis, Founder, Mahalo.com
5. Robin Li, originator of Baidu search technology
6. Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
7. Vipul Ved Prakash, Founder, Topsy.com
8. Jack Ma, Founder, Alibaba.com
9. Alan Emtage, CTO, Mediapolis; creator of pre-Web search engine Archie
10. Suranga Chandratillake, CEO, Blinkx

8. Security

1. Robert S. Mueller III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
2. Scott Charney, Corporate VP, Trustworthy Computing (TwC), Microsoft
3. Al Zollar, General Manager, IBM Tivoli Software
4. Whitfield Diffie, cryptography expert
5. Art Coviello, President, RSA
6. Dave Cullinane, Chairman, Cloud Security Alliance; CISO, eBay
7. Richard Clarke, Chairman, Good Harbor Consulting
8. Jeff Moss, Founder, Black Hat
9. Jeremiah Grossman, Founder & CTO, WhiteHat Security
10. Bruce Schneier, blogger

9. Digital Entertainment

1. Eddy Cue, VP, iTunes, Apple
2. Mitch Bainwol, Chairman, RIAA
3. Jason Kilar, CEO, Hulu
4. Chad Hurley, Founder & CEO, YouTube
5. Bram Cohen, Founder, BitTorrent
6. Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix
7. Rob Pardo, EVP, Blizzard Entertainment; lead designer, World of Warcraft
8. Tim Westergren, Founder, Pandora Media
9. Cédric Tournay, CEO, Dailymotion
10. Leslie Moonves, CEO, CBS Corp./TV.com

10. Most Over-Rated

1. Evan Williams
2. Biz Stone
3. Sergey Brin
4. Larry Ellison
5. Howard Schmidt
6. Ashton Kutcher
7. Barack Obama
8. Tim Berners-Lee
9. Stephen Saunders
10. Robert Scoble

To read Internet Evolution’s full report and commentary go here.

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