Friday, December 17, 2010

Vote for the Man of the Year

Who as per you is the Man of the Year?

Julian Assange

Julian Assange is an Australian Journalist who is now famous across the globe as the editor-in-chief and spokesperson of Wiki Leaks, a whistleblower website and a conduit of news leaks. He started as a computer hacker at the age of 16 but was raided by the police for hacking the sites of an Australian University and Nortel. In 1993, Assange was involved in starting Australia’s first ISP as well as working as a freelance programmer. Wiki leaks was founded in 2006 with the primary aim of publishing secretive documents of various organizations across the world. Assange believes in a trans-political ideology with the aim of gaining justice through transparency. For his work , he has received the 2008 Economist Freedom of Expression Award and the 2010 Sam’s Award and is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in the world.

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Mark Zuckerberg

"Zuck" runs network of 600 million "friends" who announce births, deaths, breakups, geopolitical revolutions, share photos and harvest squash 30 billion times a month. Site is second-most-visited worldwide, after Google; users spend over 700 billion minutes per month with site. Harvard dropout even runs his own monetary system--Facebook Credits--to facilitate transactions. Personal fortune soared $4.9 billion this year to $6.9 billion as private equity outfits stumbled over each other to buy stock at soaring valuations--at last count the company was valued at $23 billion (Illiquid private shares in secondary markets point higher). Said to end meetings with fist pump and chants of "Domination!".



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