The Digital Footprints of Tech’s Most Powerful Women

Posted on March 30, 2012 by PeekYou Team

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 written here in the PeekScore blog previously – such as here, for example – “If we’re to live in a world where we choose to have leaders, by our math a little over half of them (at all levels, and in all areas) should be women. We realize that rightfully the balance may shift back and forth over time (just given the pool of available, qualified, and/or interested candidates at any moment), but on average – considering the demographic breakdown of those being led – it seems that this is how things should shake out.”

While we avoid politics here at the blog, this is one point of view we don’t regard as controversial. Women in positions of power are much more common than once upon a time, but we hope to see a day where there’s no novelty to the notion whatsoever. Nonetheless, at this moment, women in positions of leadership and/or great influence do warrant special notice. Today we’re taking a look at the most powerful and influential women in the world most dear to the heart of PeekYou, the world of technology. We’re not measuring the scope of their significances, nor the quality of their accomplishments, but we’re seeing how they measure up in terms of their presences and impacts here on the Web (i.e., their digital footprints, an explanation of which can be found above, or more in-depth by clicking through here).

Any thoughts on the above? Any women in tech you’d like to have seen included on the list? Let us know in the comments.

Rank	Name	Title, Company	PeekScore
1	Meg Whitman	President and CEO, HP	8.98 / 10.00
2	Sheryl Sandberg	COO, Facebook	8.34 / 10.00
3	Marissa Mayer	VP of Location and Local Services, Google	8.22 / 10.00
4	Susan Wojcicki	SVP of Advertising, Google	8.00 / 10.00
5	Ursula Burns	CEO, Xerox	7.89 / 10.00
6	Safra Catz	President, Oracle	7.80 / 10.00
7	Cher Wang	Co-founder and chairperson, HTC	7.68 / 10.00
8	Virginia “Ginni” Rometty	CEO and President, IBM	7.60 / 10.00
9	Ellen Kullman	CEO, DuPont	7.32 / 10.00
10	Katie Jacobs Stanton	Head of International Strategy, Twitter	7.20 / 10.00

The PeekScores of Top Female Filmmakers

Posted on March 29, 2012 by PeekYou Team

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.

We here at the PeekScore blog hope that the day soon arrives where the phrase “woman film director” – no matter whether the woman in question be critically revered, commercially successful, award winning, or all or even none of the above – doesn’t describe an in any way unique thing. As of this writing, however, it does and – in recognition of this fact – we decided to take a moment to acknowledge the careers and successes of ten of the most prominent, living female filmmakers in the world right now. Their films range from mainstream rom-coms, to taut actioners, to thoughtful arthouse pictures, and their careers span many decades. Indeed, all they have in common is a gender and a medium, and comparisons are largely unfair…

Unfair, that is, except for when it comes to the sizes of their various digital footprints (an explanation of which can be found above, or by clicking through here). It still may be unfair, but it’s harmless, and comparing PeekScores is, after all, what we do around here. In this crowd, 2008′s Oscar winner for Best Director leads the pack. She is followed closely by the director of the first installment of the outrageously successful Twilight series of films.

Are there any female filmmakers you’d like to have seen included on this list? Let us know in the comments.

Rank	Name	Major Film	PeekScore
1	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker	8.61 / 10.00
2	Catherine Hardwicke	Twilight	8.59 / 10.00
3	Sofia Coppola	Lost In Translation	8.46 / 10.00
4	Jane Campion	The Piano	8.32 / 10.00
5	Mira Nair	Monsoon Wedding	8.23 / 10.00
6	Penny Marshall	A League of Their Own	8.20 / 10.00
7	Lone Scherfig	An Education	8.11 / 10.00
8	Nancy Meyers	It’s Complicated	8.09 / 10.00
9	Clair Denis	Beau Travail	8.07 / 10.00
10	Agnès Varda	Cleo from 5 to 7	8.02 / 10.00

Which of the World’s Top Male Tennis Players has the Largest PeekScore?

Posted on March 27, 2012 by PeekYou Team

Rank	Name	Bio	PeekScore
1	Roger Federer	Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time	10.00 / 10.00
2	Andy Murray	Reached the semi-finals of all four Grand Slam tournaments in 2011	9.40 / 10.00
3	Rafael Nadal	Has won ten Grand Slam singles titles, and the Olympic gold medal	9.37 / 10.00
4	Novak Djokovic	Has won five Grand Slam singles title, including Wimbledon in 2011	9.08 / 10.00
5	John Isner	Played in the longest ever professional tennis match at Wimbledon in 2010	8.72 / 10.00
6	David Ferrer	Appeared in the semi-finals at the 2007 US Open and 2011 Australian Open	8.47 / 10.00
7	Mardy Fish	Reached the quarter finals at the 2007 Australian Open, the 2008 US Open, and the 2011 Wimbledon Championships	8.38 / 10.00
8	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Winner of the 2008 Paris Masters	7.19 / 10.00
9	Janko Tipsarević	Winner of two ATP tour championships, two Futures, and nine tournaments in the ATP Challenger Series	7.15 / 10.00
10	Tomáš Berdych	Reached the final at Wimbledon in 2010	7.14 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the NCAA’s “Sweet 16″ Head Coaches

Posted on March 21, 2012 by PeekYou Team

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.

March means different things to different folks. For those of us living in the northern hemisphere it means the onset of spring, for some it means St. Patrick’s revelry, and for strange others perhaps a bout of Ides of March dread. But for a great many Americans – both those with office pools and without (but particularly those with) – it means March Madness, the NCAA’s annual championship basketball tournament.

This year’s tournament’s been underway for a little while now, finding it as of this writing down to 16 teams remaining, or the “Sweet 16.” We can’t compare the teams’ respective abilities on the court, nor can we compare the academic qualities of the assorted colleges involved. What we can and will do, though, is take the head coaches of each of these oh so sweet remaining teams and put them through their PeekScore paces; comparing their respective digital footprints (an explanation of which can be found above, or more in depth by clicking through here), and assessing their impacts here in the Internet’s ether.

Many of these coaches have personal websites, some have a social networking presence, and nearly all – particularly lately, for obvious reasons – receive a fair amount of press. As such, even the lowest of their scores is respectable, and in general the competitions for PeekScore dominance are perhaps tighter ones than the assorted contests they’ll be facing on the court in the coming days.

Any feelings on the tournament so far? Any teams for whom you’re rooting? Let us know in the comments.

Rank	Name	Served	PeekScore
1	Roy Williams	University of North Carolina Tar Heels	8.88 / 10.00
2	John Calipari	Kentucky Wildcats	8.42 / 10.00
3	Jim Boeheim	Syracuse Orange	8.34 / 10.00
4	Rick Pitino	University of Louisville Cardinals	8.22 / 10.00
5	Bill Self	University of Kansas Jayhawks	8.18 / 10.00
6	Tom Izzo	Michigan State Spartans	8.17 / 10.00
7	Billy Donovan	Florida Gators	8.06 / 10.00
8	Bo Ryan	University of Wisconsin Badgers	8.02 / 10.00
9	Thad Matta	Ohio State Buckeyes	8.01 / 10.00
10	Scott Drew	Baylor Bears	8.01 / 10.00
11	Brent “Buzz” Williams	Marquette Golden Eagles	7.92 / 10.00
12	Chris Mack	Xavier Musketeers	7.82 / 10.00
13	Mark Gottfried	North Carolina State Wolfpack	7.81 / 10.00
14	Mick Cronin	Cincinnati Bearcats	7.68 / 10.00
15	Tom Crean	University of Indiana Hoosiers	7.59 / 10.00
16	John Groce	Ohio University Bobcats	7.27 / 10.00

Which of the World’s Youngest Billionaires has the Highest PeekScore?

Posted on March 16, 2012 by PeekYou Team

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.

They’re all under 35, they’re all worth over a billion bucks, and four of them made at least part, if not all, of their fortunes via an association with Facebook. These are the world’s ten youngest billionaires. Comparing their fortunes and/or accomplishments is the work of other blogs, of course. What we here at the PeekScore blog intend to do with these ten vastly wealthy whipper-snappers is compare their various impacts here on the World Wide Web, as quantified on our PeekScore scale (an explanation of which can be found above, or more in depth by clicking through here).

The gent topping our list is a bona fide PeekScore sasquatch, who has found himself topping – or nearly topping – many of our lists before. It’s not surprising that one of the Internet’s all-time most successful entrepreneurs would also have one of the largest digital footprints of course. As you work your way down the list the order of things may hold more surprises, however.

Any thoughts on the below? Any youthful aristocrats and/or captains of industry you would have expected to see on a list of this sort? Let us know in the comments.

Rank	Name	Bio	PeekScore
1	Mark Zuckerberg	Age 27, founder and CEO of Facebook	10.00 / 10.00
2	Sean Parker	Age 32, co-founder of Napster and Facebook’s first president	8.51 / 10.00
3	Eduardo Saverin	Age 30, co-founder of Facebook	8.10 / 10.00
4	Dustin Moskovitz	Age 27, Facebook’s first chief technology officer, and later vp of engineering.	8.04 / 10.00
5	Scott Duncan	Age 29, energy pipeline entrepreneur	8.01 / 10.00
6	Fahd Hariri	Age 31, son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.	7.04 / 10.00
7	Robert Pera	Age 34, former Apple hardware engineer and co-founder of Ubiquiti Networks	7.03 / 10.00
8	Ayman Hariri	Age 33, son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.	7.02 / 10.00
9	Yang Huiyan	Age 30, major shareholder in real estate developer Country Garden Holdings	7.01 / 10.00
10	Albert Von Thurn Und Taxis	Age 28, German prince	7.00 / 10.00

The Digital Footprints of the CEOs of 2011′s Most Successful Startups

Posted on March 15, 2012 by PeekYou Team

Rank	Name	Title, Company	PeekScore
1	Jack Dorsey	CEO, Square	8.44 / 10.00
2	Joe Fernandez	Co-Founder/CEO, Klout	8.17 / 10.00
3	Drew Houston	Founder/CEO, Dropbox	8.03 / 10.00
4	Mike McCue	CEO, Flipboard	7.81 / 10.00
5	Ben Silbermann	CEO, Pinterest	7.76 / 10.00
6	Brian Chesky	CEO, Airbnb	7.64 / 10.00
7	Billy Chasen	Founder/CEO, Turntable.fm	7.43 / 10.00
8	Kevin Systrom	CEO, Instagram	7.40 / 10.00
9	Jared Hecht	Co-founder, GroupMe	7.23 / 10.00
10	Steve Martocci	Co-founder, GroupMe	7.08 / 10.00
11	Adam D’Angelo	CEO, Quora	7.07 / 10.00

Which of the World’s Wealthiest Models has the largest Digital Footrpint?

Posted on March 14, 2012 by PeekYou Team

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.

Back in February, Forbes Magazine had former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, Kathy Ireland, on its cover to accompany an article wherein it was revealed that – via her numerous contracts and clothing lines, and assorted business ventures – Ms. Ireland’s current net worth is somewhere in the neighborhood of about $315 million; astronomical earnings and holdings, which find her now the richest model on Earth. As you readers of the PeekScore blog seem to like it when we write about models, and nearly as much when we write about money, a list of this sort seemed a natural. We know that Ms. Ireland’s is the biggest pile of loot, but how does she measure up in comparison to the remainder of the world’s ten richest models when it comes to her presence and impact here on the web?

Doing as we always do, we’ve employed our amazing little PeekScore scale to see how these women – both photogenic and industrious out in the flesh and blood world, as they all evidently are – compare when it comes to digital footprints (an explanation of which can be found above, or more in-depth by clicking through here).

The uniformly high scores suggest that this is, from the perspective of cyberspace, a very famous group of women.

Any thoughts or feelings on Ms. Ireland’s bounty and numerous successes? Any models you would have more expected to see counted among the worlds most richly rewarded? Let us know in the comments.

Rank	Name	Served	PeekScore
1	Heidi Klum	Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated model, and host of Project Runway.	10.00 / 10.00
2	Naomi Campbell	One of the six original “supernodels,” she’s been modeling since the age of 15.	9.99 / 10.00
3	Kate Moss	Perhaps best known as the face and figure of the “heroin chic”/”waif” look which became fashionable in the 90s.	9.98 / 10.00
4	Tyra Banks	Co-creator and/or host of America’s Next Top Model, The Tyra Banks Show, and True Beauty.	9.92 / 10.00
5	Gisele Bündchen	Heavily in demand to this day, she is currently one of the faces of Versace, Givenchy, Salvatore Ferragamo, and the Bank of Brazil.	9.82 / 10.00
6	Cindy Crawford	Arguably the name most closely associated with the original “supermodels,” she launched the Cindy Crawford Home Collection furniture line in 2005.	9.54 / 10.00
7	Elle Macpherson	Five time Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model, she is the host of Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model.	9.27 / 10.00
8	Christie Brinkley	A three-time Sports Illustrated cover model, she has been a spokesperson for CoverGirl cosmetics for over 20 years.	9.05 / 10.00
9	Kathy Ireland	Of this list of extremely wealthy and successful women, she is said by Forbes to be the richest.	8.88 / 10.00
10	Claudia Schiffer	Has appeared on over 700 magazine covers in her career, and is the creative director of her own fahsion line.	8.71 / 10.00

Which of the Music Industry’s Top 25 Most Powerful People has the Largest PeekScore?

Posted on March 5, 2012 by PeekYou Team

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.

Back in January, Billboard Magazine compiled and published what they called The Power 100; their list of who they’d determined to be the 100 most powerful people (or pairs of people) in the music industry.

In recent years, the nature of the business, and the sorts of folks who hold power within it have changed quite a lot. You can read Billboard’s assorted takes on all of that, as well as the whole Power 100 list by clicking the highlighted link here.

What does this have to do with PeekYou and PeekScores? Well, if you’ve not already guessed we’ll tell you. We’ve decided to take the top 25 entries from Billboard’s Power 100 and analyze and compare not their various powers within the music industry, but instead their assorted impacts and presences here in our beloved World Wide Web. Simply, using the PeekScore scale we’re taking a look at these music moguls’ digital footprints (an explanation of which can be found above, or more in-depth by clicking through here).

The folks topping our list should surprise no one, as they’re two of the biggest pop stars on the planet (in addition to their wielding power within the greater industry). But even once we descend the list and begin to observe cyber-impacts more approaching those of mere mortals, the PeekScores remain on the rather healthy side. Some of these folks have a social media presence, but mostly the scores are as robust as they are due to the routine coverage in the music and finance trades people in their positions of influence tend to receive.

Quick disclaimer: While we’re only looking at the top 25 slots from Billboard’s list today, our list is a bit longer due to Billboard including the occasional pair of folks on theirs. We’ve indicated where an individual is a part of a pair, and with whom they share their power.

Rank	Name	Bio	PeekScore
1	Beyoncé Knowles (listed w/ Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter)	Artist, Co-founder – Roc Nation; House of Dereon	10.00 / 10.00
2	Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter (listed w/ Beyoncé Knowles)	Artist, Co-founder – Roc Nation; House of Dereon	9.96 / 10.00
3	Jimmy Iovine	Co-Founder – Interscope Geffen A&M Records; Beats by Dre	8.23 / 10.00
4	Bryan “Birdman” Williams (listed w/ Ronald “Slim” Williams)	Co-founder/Co-CEO – Cash Money Records	8.13 / 10.00
5	John Hogan	President CEO – Clear Channel Media and Entertainment	8.11 / 10.00
6	Rob Stringer (listed w/ Steve Barnett)	Chairman/CEO – Columbia Records	8.10 / 10.00
7	Ronald “Slim” Williams (listed w/ Bryan “Birdman” Williams)	Co-founder/Co-CEO – Cash Money Records	8.09 / 10.00
8	Randy Phillips	President/CEO – AEG Live	8.07 / 10.00
9	Eddy Cue (listed with Robert Kondrk)	Senior VP of Internet Software and Services – Apple	8.06 / 10.00
10	Coran Capshaw	Founder Partner – Red Light Management, Star Hill Presents; ATO Records, TBD Records	8.02 / 10.00
11	Barry Weiss	Chairman/CEO – Universal Republic & Island Def Jam	8.02 / 10.00
12	Steve Barnett (listed w/ Rob Stringer)	Chairman/COO – Columbia Records	8.01 / 10.00
13	Dan Mason	President/CEO – CBS Radio	7.99 / 10.00
14	Frank Cooper	Chief Marketing Officer of Global Consumer Engagement – PepsiCo	7.92 / 10.00
15	Irving Azoff	Chairman; Chairman/CEO – Live Nation Entertainment; Front Line Management Group	7.87 / 10.00
16	Doug Morris	CEO – Sony Music Entertainment	7.80 / 10.00
17	Bob Pittman	CEO – Clear Channel Media	7.76 / 10.00
18	Lyor Cohen	Chairman/CEO of Recorded Music – Warner Music Group	7.57 / 10.00
19	Tim Leiweke	President/CEO – Anschutz Entertainment Group	7.57 / 10.00
20	Len Blavatnik	Owner – Warner Music Group	7.48 / 10.00
21	Roger Faxon	CEO – EMI Group	7.26 / 10.00
22	Arthur Fogel	Chairman of Global Touring -Live Nation Entertainment	7.22 / 10.00
23	Rob Light	Managing Partner/Head of Music – Creative Artists Agency	7.21 / 10.00
24	Lucian Grainge	Chairman/CEO – Universal Music Group	7.18 / 10.00
25	Michael Rapino	CEO – Live Nation Entertainment	7.17 / 10.00
26	Emmanuel Seuge	Head of Global Sports and Entertainment Marketing – Coca-Cola	7.15 / 10.00
27	Marc Geiger	Head of Music – William Morris Agency	7.12 / 10.00
28	Martin Bandier	Chairman/CEO – Sony/ATV Music Publishing	7.10 / 10.00
29	Robert Kondrk (listed with Eddy Cue)	Senior Director – Apple	6.99 / 10.00

The Digital Footrpints of the Top Hospitality Tycoons

Posted on March 1, 2012 by PeekYou Team

Rank	Name	Bio	PeekScore
1	Donald Trump	Chairman & President, The Trump Organization	9.97 / 10.00
2	Steve Wynn	Co-Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Wynn Resorts	8.32 / 10.00
3	Ian Schrager	Founder & Chairman, Ian Schrager Company	8.26 / 10.00
4	Sheldon Adelson	CEO, Las Vegas Sands Corporation	8.14 / 10.00
5	Barron Hilton	Former Co-Chairman, Hilton Hotels	8.03 / 10.00
6	Micky Arison	CEO, Carnival Corporation	7.91 / 10.00
7	Thomas Pritzker	Executive Chairman, Hyatt Hotels Corporation	7.57 / 10.00
8	André Balazs	Creator, Standard Hotels	7.49 / 10.00
9	Bill Marriott	Chairman & CEO, Mariott International	7.15 / 10.00
10	Joan Tisch	Co-Heir, Loews Corporation Fortune	7.04 / 10.00
11	Phil Ruffin	Owner, Treasure Island Hotel and Casino	7.03 / 10.00
12	Wilma Tisch	Co-Heir, Loews Corporation Fortune	7.01 / 10.00