As the World Wide Web evolves, the role of the web users will evolve with it. WebGeek Philippines put together a list of the 16 Most Influential People on the Web .

“As we go forward, I hope we’re going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.“ – Sergey Brin

“I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.” – Steve Jobs

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg – the founder and CEO of Facebook, which he started in his college dorm room in 2004 with roomates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Zuckerberg is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for Facebook. He leads the design of Facebook’s service and development of its core technology and infrastructure. There is also a movie which has been made on life of Zuckerber, starring Justin timberlake and Jesse eisenberg , which is all set to release this year and the Movie is call The Social Network.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

Sergey Brin & Larry Page - Virtually inseparable as the founders of the Web’s most dominant force, the pair of billionaires preside over Google (GOOG) as presidents of technology and products, respectively, only nominally under CEO Eric Schmidt. Brin, who moved to the U.S. from Russia with his parents when he was 6, and Page, the son of two Michigan computer-science academics, jointly developed a method of analyzing links between Web sites. That produced search results so much more relevant than rivals’ that Google became the most used engine for Web searches, and “Google” became a verb that means “search.”

Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington - Serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news.  He founded TechCrunch on June 11, 2005.  In May 2008 Time Magazine named Michael Arrington as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.  He also made an online payment company called Ache. Arrington worked in an operational role at a Carlyle backed startup in London, founded and ran two companies in Canada (Zip.ca and Pool.com), was COO to aKleiner-backed company called Razorgator, and consulted to other companies, including Verisign.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs – Having brought Apple (AAPL) off the ropes after his return as CEO in 1996, Jobsrevolutionized how people get music from the Web, introducing the iPod digital music player in 2001 and later opening the iTunes Music Store. Under the detail-obsessed Jobs, iTunes has become the third-largest supplier of music in the U.S., after Wal-Mart and Amazon, and the most successful alternative to music piracy, having sold more than 3 billion songs and 300 million TV shows. Now Jobs is shaking up the way consumers access the Web without wires, through his new iPhone and iPod Touch handheld devices and Apple TV, a tool for transmitting downloaded video to the living room.

Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg – A former CNET employee, Matt is the cofounding developer behind the open source WordPress blogging platform and its founding company Automattic. A Houston native, Matt also serves as an adviser to Sphere and WeGame. Today millions of blogs use wordpress as a blogging platform. Some of the most popular websites run on Wordpress like Techcrunch.

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee - an Oxford-trained scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989 by designing a way to create links, or hypertext, amid different pieces of online information. Berners-Lee began describing the next leap in the mid-1990s. Dubbed the Semantic Web, it’s a method of tagging online information so it can be more easily found, understood, and organized in relation to other data, automatically, wherever it may be nestled online.

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales – Co-founder of Wikipedia, this person gave us a very unique website named Wikepedia the online encyclopedia. Which not only made him popular but also has made him enlisted in the list of few self made billionaires.

Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington – Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of eleven books including her latest, “On Becoming Fearless… in Love, Work, and Life”.

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O’Reilly – O’Reilly started publishing computer books in the ’80s, and two decades later, his company’s programming guides (the ones with the line drawings of animals on the covers) are ubiquitous in the geek sections of bookstores. He popularized “Web 2.0,” a term that’s come to define a wave of new sites and technologies at the core of a more interactive and user-generated Web.

Craig Newmark

Craig  Newmark – who provided a whole new dimension to the internet Advertising World. His Well Known Creation Named Craiglist. A website that provides free online classified advertisement listing of products, services, jobs and discussion Forums around the world.

Evan Williams

Evan Williams – CEO of Twitter and many reffer to him as the father of blogging. He gave the word blogger to the World Wide Web for the first time. A note-taking feature spun off as Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. Pyra was eventually acquired byGoogle. Williams left Google in October 2004 to co-found Odeo. In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious Corp with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees.

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos – In 1994, Jeff Bezos saw a startling statistic: Web usage was growing at 2,300% a year. At the time, he had a good job working in computers and finance. Yet he went to his boss and said, “I’m going to do this crazy thing and I’m going to start this company selling books online,” he said in an interview with the Academy of Achievement. He went on to build Amazon (AMZN), the world’s biggest online store

Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer – Google’s vice-president for search products and user experience also determines the look of Google on the Web. A true nerd with degrees in symbolic systems and computer science from Stanford, Mayer joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer and led the user interface and web server teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com.

Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose – Serial entrepreneur and the Founder of Digg and WeFollow. Rose also co-founded Revision3, and Pownce (acquired by Six Apart). Rose also is the co-host on the tech news podcast Diggnation.

Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer – One of the richest people on earth with an estimated wealth of around $15 billion and the CEO Of the Microsoft Corporation since 2000. He is the one who is responsible for all the Microsoft’s activities around the globe making him the top most Influential person on internet undoubtedly.

Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang – co-created the Yahoo Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo Inc. in April 1995. He was appointed chief executive officer of the company in June 2007, and stepped down in November 2008.