Tag: general knowledge

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"The Long Tail"

"The Cluetrain Manifesto"

"The Wisdom of Crowds"

"The Tipping Point"

Then-imprisoned hacker and "phone phreak" John Draper (aka Captain Crunch)

Kevin Mitnick, two decades before he went to prison in 1996

Robert T. Morris, who also created the first known worm virus

Jason Burks, aka v00d00, for whom 1976 was an extremely important year

Thickenesse

Scrimgeour

Dawlish

Yaxley

Jonathan Abrams (Friendster)

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)

Biz Stone (Xanga)

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

Breaking into Bank of America's corporate account records

Breaking into the Department of Justice's records on its U.S. v. Microsoft case

Hacking into Social Security number account records

Hacking the Los Angeles bus punch card system in order to get free bus rides

Mena Trott, co-founder of Six Apart

Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal

Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress

Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger and Twitter

Metcalfe's Law that a network system's value is proportional to the square of its user population

Predicting in 1997 that the Internet would soon fail due to traffic or he would eat his words -- and did, mushing his paper with liquid in a blender a year later

Predicting that Microsoft Windows 2000 would kill Linux, likening the open source movement to "utopian balderdash" with "open sores"

All of the above

Yaxley

Wormtail

Bellatrix

Malfoy

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Chad Hurley and Steve Chen

Jerry Yang and David Filo

Scott McNealy and Bill Joy