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PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news.

Guided by PeekScore, Internet users can discover Web personalities, industry experts, and leaders in any field, as well as learn more about the communities important to them. We invite you to try out this new tool and hope that you make it a part of your daily Web browsing experience.

For first time visitors, a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is – and how to increase your own – can be found by clicking through here.

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Who are the Current Professional Athletes with the Highest PeekScores?

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

It’s been a while since we’ve done a list like this, but the good folks over at Forbes suggested this, and it seemed like a great idea. Forbes recently featured their list of who they determined to be 2013′s Most Influential Athletes (which you can read all about here). They asked that we compile our own list of the athletes with the highest PeekScores, for the purposes of comparing their list to ours. This sounded like a fun and perhaps even illuminating undertaking.

What PeekScores measure are digital impacts and presences; or “digital footprints,” as we call them (a concept you will find explained in brief in the header above, and more in depth here). The names on this fairly surprising list speak loudly and clearly to nothing so much as the truly international nature of the Web. Fewer than half the names on the list are Americans, and a sizable portion play a sport which — while the most popular sport in the world by a healthy margin — is quite famously all but ignored in the states.

The breakdown, for those keeping score, is:

7 soccer players
5 basketball players
4 tennis players
2 race car drivers
1 boxer
1 cricketer
1 snowboarder
1 golfer
1 sprinter
1 swimmer
1 NFL football player

While we’re certain this list is bound to irk some and tickle others (although we remind you that this list reflects no opinions whatsoever), we suggest that you share your feelings in the comment section here and let us know all about it, either way.

Rank Picture Name Bio PeekScore
1

Cristiano Ronaldo Portuguese soccer player for Spanish team Real Madrid 10.00 / 10.00
2

Sebastian Vettel German Formula One racing driver 10.00 / 10.00
3

David Beckham English footballer who currently plays for French team Paris Saint-Germain 10.00 / 10.00
4

Lebron James American basketball player for the NBA’s Miami Heat  10.00 / 10.00
5

Kobe Bryant American basketball player for the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers 10.00 / 10.00
6

Lionel Messi Argentine soccer player who plays for the Spanish team FC Barcelona 9.96 / 10.00
7

Tiger Woods American golfer 9.95 / 10.00
8

Maria Sharapova Russian tennis player 9.67 / 10.00
9

Serena Williams American tennis player 9.61 / 10.00
10

Didier Drogba Ivorian footballer who plays for Turkish team Galatasaray 9.36 / 10.00
11

Manny Pacquiao Filipino boxer and politican 9.28 / 10.00
12

Kevin Durant American basketball player for the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder 9.27 / 10.00
13

Roger Federer Swiss tennis player 9.26 / 10.00
14

Wayne Rooney English soccer player for the Premier League team Manchester United 9.20 / 10.00
15

Sachin Tendulkar Indian cricketer 9.18 / 10.00
16

Fernando Torres Spanish soccer player who plays for the Premier League team Chelsea 9.17 / 10.00
17

Rafael Nadal Spanish tennis player 9.16 / 10.00
18

Kaká Brazilian soccer player who plays for the Spanish team Real Madrid 9.15 / 10.00
19

Usain Bolt Jamaican sprinter 9.13 / 10.00
20

Peyton Manning American football player for the NFL’s Denver Broncos 9.10 / 10.00
21

Shaun White American snowboarder 9.09 / 10.00
22

Danica Patrick American racing driver 9.05 / 10.00
23

Carmelo Anthony American basketball player for the NBA’s New York Knicks 9.02 / 10.00
24

Chris Paul American basketball player for the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers 8.99 / 10.00
25

Michael Phelps American swimmer 8.90 / 10.00

The PeekScores of Wall Street’s 25 Most Powerful Women

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

As we’ve pointed out here on numerous occasions prior (such as here), we wish we didn’t live in a world where the idea of women in positions of affluence and leadership seemed novel or worthy of singling out. It is 2013, after all. But, there’s no denying that — for at least today — such specific acknowledgements do still often seem appropriate.

That tiny bit of what should frankly be uncontroversial politics aside, a little while back the good people at Business Insider created a list celebrating the accomplishments of who they deemed to be The 25 Most Powerful Women On Wall Street (you can read their article here).

What we’ve done is what we always do, and taken these 25 women to see how they measure up and compare in terms of their relative impacts and presences in cyberspace, as quantified by our PeekScore scale (an assessment of their “digital footprints,” as it were, a concept explained in brief above, and more in depth here).

These women all have scores within a very narrow PeekScore range, with many statistical ties throughout. While no internet superstars to really be found among them (with few if any Twitter accounts or blogs, etc) they are all, at least in part owing to the internet’s extensive financial and business coverage, present and accounted for here on the Web.

Rank Picture Name Title – Company PeekScore
1

Meredith Whitney CEO – Meredith Whitney Advisory Group 7.56 / 10.00
2

Irene Dorner President and CEO - HSBC USA 7.10 / 10.00
3

Eileen Serra CEO of Credit Card Services – JPMorgan 7.09 / 10.00
4

Nancy Peretsman Managing Director – Allen & Co.  7.08 / 10.00
5

Sonia Gardner President, Managing Partner, Co-Founder – Avenue Capital 7.08 / 10.00
6

Blythe Masters Head of Global Commodities – JPMorgan 7.07 / 10.00
7

Carla Harris Managing Director, Emerging Managers Platform – Morgan Stanley Investment Management 7.06 / 10.00
8

Abby Joseph Cohen U.S. Investment Strategist – Goldman Sachs 7.06 / 10.00
9

Ruth Porat CFO – Morgan Stanley 7.05 / 10.00
10

Edith Cooper Executive VP/ Global Head of Human Capital Management – Goldman Sachs 7.04 / 10.00
11

Mei Gao Partner – Fore Research & Management 7.03 / 10.00
12

Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani CIO – Goldman Sachs (Private Wealth Management group) 7.03 / 10.00
13

Catherine Keating CEO of United States Institutional Asset Management – JPMorgan 7.02 / 10.00
14

Dominic Barton Founder – Tse Capital 7.02 / 10.00
15

Marianne Lake CFO – JPMorgan Chase 7.02 / 10.00
16

Jamie Zimmerman CEO – Litespeed Management 7.01 / 10.00
17

Dawn Fitzpatrick CIO = UBS O’Connor 7.01 / 10.00
18

Candace Browning Head of Global Research – Bank of America Merrill Lynch 7.01 / 10.00
19

Mary Callahan Erdoes CEO – JPMorgan Asset Management 7.00 / 10.00
20

Renée Haugerud CIO – Galtere 7.00 / 10.00
21

Leda Braga CIO – Bluecrest 7.00 / 10.00
22

Dottie Mattison Senior Managing Director – Guggenheim Partners 6.99 / 10.00
23

Alexandra Lebenthal President/CEO – Lebenthal & Company 6.98 / 10.00
24

Lara Warner CFO of the Investment Banking Division – Credit Suisse 6.97 / 10.00
25

Hope Pascucci President – Rose Grover Capital 6.55 / 10.00

Which of the 20 Best-Liked CEOs Has the Largest Digital Footprint?

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

Recently, the popular job rating site Glassdoor.com posted their annual list of the CEOs most highly rated by their employees. We’ve taken the top 20 executives from the list and measured and compared their PeekScores.

Simply, and as before and as ever, we’re sizing these bigwigs up not based upon the varying quantities of wealth contained within their bonus checks, nor even – as Glassdoor has already done – the degree to which their employees are satisfied with the jobs they’re doing. This is a look at how these popular chiefs compare to one another here on the web, in terms of their respective impacts and presences (i.e., their digital footprints, as outlined above and more in depth by clicking through here), as measured on our nifty PeekScore scale.

Note: SAP has co-CEOs, both of whom are on this list. The list, therefore, features 21 names.

Rank Picture Name Company PeekScore
1

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook 10.00 / 10.00
2

Larry Page Google 9.25 / 10.00
3

Tim Cook Apple 8.68 / 10.00
4

Jeff Bezos Amazon 8.08 / 10.00
5

Paul Otellini Intel 7.98 / 10.00
6

Richard K. Davis U.S. Bank 7.95 / 10.00
7

Howard Schultz Starbucks 7.74 / 10.00
8

Paul E. Jacobs QUALCOMM 7.46 / 10.00
9

Jen-Hsun Huang NVIDIA 7.26 / 10.00
10

Joe Tucci EMC 7.20 / 10.00
11

Ken Chenault American Express 7.19 / 10.00
12

Hans Vestberg Ericsson-Worldwide 7.13 / 10.00
13

Bill McDermott SAP 7.08 / 10.00
14

Dominic Barton McKinsey & Company 7.07 / 10.00
15

Mark B. Templeton Citrix Systems 7.06 / 10.00
16

Jim Hagemann SAP 7.05 / 10.00
17

Jim Turley Ernst & Young 7.03 / 10.00
18

John Schlifske Northwestern Mutual 7.02 / 10.00
19

Frank D’Souza Cognizant Technology Solutions 7.01 / 10.00
20

Pierre Nanterme Accenture 7.00 / 10.00
21

Carlos Rodriguez ADP 6.96 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the World’s 10 Best Restaurants’ Head Chefs

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

San Pellegrino has just released its annual list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants for 2013. To both the actually knowledgeable as well as the dilettante gourmands and would-be globetrotters scattered across cyberspace, the list apparently contained some big surprises. We’ll leave opining on all of that to the appropriate sources. What we’ve done here, to mark the release of this auspicious list, is take the head chef from each of the top 10 restaurants and put him through his PeekScore paces, and then pit him against the others to see how they all measure up, digital footprint-wise.

This is not a measurement of their qualities as chefs nor is it even a commentary on their fame in the world at large. Simply, this is a look at the presences and impacts of each of these men here in cyberspace.

Rank Picture Name Restaurant – City PeekScore
1

Heston Blumenthal Dinner by Heston Blumenthal – London, UK 7.68 / 10.00
2

Joan Roca El Celler de Can Roca – Girona, Spain 7.48 / 10.00
3

René Redzepi Noma – Copenhagen, Denmark 7.26 / 10.00
4

Alex Atala D.O.M – Sao Paulo, Brazil 7.25 / 10.00
5

Massimo Bottura Osteria Francescana – Modena, Italy 7.14 / 10.00
6

Daniel Humm Eleven Madison Park – New York, USA 7.09 / 10.00
7

Joachim Wissler Vendôme – Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 7.03 / 10.00
8

Andoni Aduriz Mugaritz – San Sebastian, Spain 7.02 / 10.00
9

Heinz Reitbauer Steirereck – Vienna, Austria 7.01 / 10.00
10

Juan Mari Arzak Arzak – San Sebastian, Spain 7.00 / 10.00

The Digital Footprints of the Judges and Hosts of The Voice

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

The American version of the enormously popular TV show / singing contest, The Voice, is now nearing the end of its fourth season. Inspired by the hubbub surrounding this occasion, we’ve put the program’s past and current hosts and judges through their PeekScore paces; measuring and comparing their assorted presences and impacts here on the Web, or if you prefer their “digital footprints” (a concept explained in this entry’s header and more in depth here).

Rank Picture Name Bio PeekScore
1

Christina Aguilera (sitting out the 4th season, apparently returning for the 5th) Multi-platinum singer of such megahits as “Beautiful,” “Genie in a Bottle,” and “What a Girl Wants” 10.00 / 10.00
2

Adam Levine Lead singer for Maroon 5 9.35 / 10.00
3

Christina Milian Singer and actress, and the star of films such as “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” 9.18 / 10.00
4

Blake Shelton Country star 9.14 / 10.00
5

Usher (4th season only, so far) Multi-platinum singer of such hits as “Nice & Slow” and “Confessions Part II” 8.99 / 10.00
6

Shakira (4th season only, so far) Colombian born singer, songwriter, producer, and dancer 8.72 / 10.00
7

Carson Daly Former host of MTV’s Total Request Live 8.30 / 10.00
8

Cee Lo Green (sitting out the 4th season, apparently returning for the 5th) Multi-platinum singer, songwriter, and producer 8.11 / 10.00