Tag: Time Magazine
Facebook founder Zuckerberg crowned Time magazine's Person of the Year
The much-coveted Time magazine Person of the Year award has one to Facebook founder and multi-billionairre Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg took the prize for "connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a…
WikiLeaks' Assange tops Time's Person of the Year poll
Julian Assange, founder of the political whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, has topped Time magazine's Person of the Year poll, seeing off the likes of Lady Gaga and even US President Barack Obama himself. The reader-voted institution saw 382,020 out of the…
Wii creator Shigeru Miyamoto honoured with top place in Time Magazine's Top 100
Voters who participated in Time Magazine’s recent ‘100 Most Influential People of 2008’ list obviously felt the same way as I did, with Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto crowned the year’s most influential.
Following him at number two and three are Rain and Stephen Colbert (you can view Colbert’s dance-off with the Korean popstar here), with the next notable technology luminaries being Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales at 18, ‘The Google Guys’ at number 20, and Microsoft’s Bill Gates in at 27th spot…