Business 2.0、『50 People who matter now』!!
ITmedia News：バルマー氏、久夛良木氏、「重要でない10人」に選ばれる
ビジネス誌「BUSINESS 2.0」が独自に選んだ「重要な50人」「重要でない10人」を発表した。まずはこちらをご覧下さい。「重要な50人」リストにはGoogle創設者のサーゲイ・ブリン氏とラリー・ペイジ氏、Apple Computerのスティーブ・ジョブズ氏などが名を連ねた。同誌は、今の世界を変えるアイデアや製品、ビジネスの見識を持つ人々を選んだとしている。
気になる1位にランクインしたのは、なんと”The consumer as creator（クリエイターとしての消費者）”でした！つまり我々です。BUSINESS 2.0誌は、Webにおける消費者による情報発信を高評価し、「あなたがた消費者はいつかWeb3.0を構築する。それが何なのかは分からないが、この先重要になることは確かだ」と記しております。
Business 2.0: 50 People Who Matter
They've long said the customer is always right. But they never really meant it. Now they have no choice. You -- or rather, the collaborative intelligence of tens of millions of people, the networked you -- continually create and filter new forms of content, anointing the useful, the relevant, and the amusing and rejecting the rest. You do it on websites like Amazon, Flickr, and YouTube, via podcasts and SMS polling, and on millions of self-published blogs. In every case, you've become an integral part of the action as a member of the aggregated, interactive, self-organizing, auto-entertaining audience. But the You Revolution goes well beyond user-generated content. Companies as diverse as Delta Air Lines and T-Mobile are turning to you to create their ad slogans. Procter & Gamble and Lego are incorporating your ideas into new products. You constructed open-source and are its customer and its caretaker. None of this should be a surprise, since it was you -- your crazy passions and hobbies and obsessions -- that built out the Web in the first place. And somewhere out there, you're building Web 3.0. We don't yet know what that is, but one thing's for sure: It will matter.