Mr. WordPress is BusinessWeek’s #14 most influential on the web
Dubbed as the Publisher, Mr. WordPress, Matt Mullenweg was named as one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web by the BusinessWeek.
As the importance of social media expands, so does the influence of WordPress, the blogging service that most serious bloggers turn to. And though blogging might seem well established, WordPress just keeps on growing. Open source software is part of the reason for WordPress’ success. When Mullenweg started blogging in 2001, he used open source software to develop his own Web tools, which became WordPress. Traffic to WordPress’ service more than doubled during the last year to 103 million global visitors, compared with main rival Typepad’s 20 million.
Together with Matt, the other 24 most influential on the web are The Seeker: Steve Ballmer of microsoft.com, The Marshall: Mitchell Baker of mozilla.org, The Innovator: Jeff Bezos of amazon.com, The Searchers: Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt of google.com, The Investor: Jeff Clavier of softtechvc.com, The Papa Bear: Paul Graham of ycombinator.com, The Muckracker: Arianna Huffington of huffingtonpost.com, The Adviser: Joi Ito of joi.ito.com, The Mastermind: Steve Jobs of apple.com, The Filmer: Jonathan Kaplan of theflip.com, The Communicator: Loic Le Meur of Leweb3.com and seesmic.com, The Trader: Jack Ma of alibaba.com, The Mogul: Rupert Murdoch of myspace.com, The Community Organizer: Craig Newmark of craigslist.com, The Traffic Driver: Gabe Rivera of techmeme.com, The Poster Boy: Kevin Rose of digg.com, The Adult: Sheryl Sandberg of facebook.com, The Edutainer: Jon Stewart of thedailyshow.com, The Money Man: Peter Thiel of clariumcapital.com and thefoundersfund.com, The Crafter: Maria Thomas of etsy.com, The Advocate: Anssi Vanjoki of nokia.com, The Crowd Sourcer: Jimmy Wales of wikia-inc.com/wiki/wikia, The Blogger: Evan Williams of twitter.com, and The Fighter: Jerry Yang of yahoo.com.
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