Internet Evolution has come up with their first-ever list of the top 100 most innovative and influential people in the Web 2.0 In the social networking category, Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder of Facebook , beat out Kevin Rose, the Founder of Digg. Alan Emtage, creator of pre-Web search engine Archie. Here is the list of the top 100 most innovative and influential people in the Web 2.0 Kevin Rose, Founder, Digg. Fiona Spruill, Editor, Web Newsroom, The New York Times. Alan Emtage, creator of pre-Web search engine Archie. Digg this! MORE >>

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post. Trends Review TrendsSpotting's presentations advertising focus group influencers internet behavior prediction search trends web 2.0Going by the World bank Global Economic Prospects report for 2009, the world GDP growth will be 0.9% for 2009. Developing countries will likely grow by 4.5% next year, down from 6.3% in 2008, while growth in many important high-income countries will turn negative. Welcome 2009! The Slideshare link to this deck is here. MORE >>

Back in the old school days of the social web (2005-2008), Digg.com was the place to be. If you were a top Digg user, you had clout (not klout, that’s for newbies, stick with me here) in the newly emerging Web 2.0 Digg, the once frontrunner of the pack, started mindlessly catering to the publishers only. Count on it for the social web as well. And now Digg’s been sold. Digg has been sold to BetaWorks for 500k (ok maybe more like 16million if you count the IP rights with LinkedIn and Washington Post ). Early Times. world. MORE >>

Digg this! Enterprise 2.0 Social Media Social Networking Web 2.0I have been in talks with a few companies lately about their social media efforts especially when it comes to supporting customers using social media ( the topic of my new book ). And I have noticed a difference between the successful ones and the not so successful ones. It comes down to one basic organizational difference …. At the highest level there is really 2 ways to organize your social media efforts: Centralized or Decentralized. You know you want to do this and your company needs you to do this. MORE >>

TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy practically writes an epitaph today for Digg following news that the company's cofounder Kevin Rose, the face of the company since its inception, had resigned to pursue a new and unannounced startup. The backdrop of her story is a detailed article she wrote on Rose and the Digg phenomenon back in 2006, when she, then writing for BusinessWeek, placed Kevin on the cover with a youthful grin and headline blaring how he was worth $60 million. That Kevin had shifted priorities away from Digg some time ago was no secret to those who watched. Same Web site. MORE >>