Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs and Apple Senior Vice President of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive are up for the TIME 100 list of most influential people 2007.
To vote, you rate a person’s influence on a scale of 1-100 and click submit. Slide the slider to “100” if you think the person deserves it! Vote early and often:
Current position, rating, total votes, and link:
• Steve Jobs: #21, 78 rating, 490 votes. Vote for Jobs here.
• Jonathan Ive: #28, 69 rating, 268 votes. Vote for Ive here.
FYI: Bill Gates is currently ranked #12 with an 88 rating and 3,025 votes. His page is here.
The ranking is based on the average rating voters give, not the total number of votes.
Hint: you can vote someone’s rating down if you think their rating is too high.
Full list here.
You know what to do.
Cons for Gates:
What about his software is universally despised as second rank, and everything they have ever done of any use is always a copy of someone else? He’s not influential, he just owns a successful business.
Jobs @ 12
Ive @ 14
Gates @ 24
Paris Hilton is dead last
I’m sure it’s possible for Jobs and Ive to take 1 and 2… with a little help from their friends.
I’ve been voting for Ive for about 600 votes so far.
My hand is getting cramped.
The only influence she has is in my pants. WTF?
Mathematicaly, my vote of 1 for her has a much bigger impact on the rankings than a 100 for Jobs or Ive.
Steve just made the top 10–we’re kickin’ ass now!
E-mail the link your Mac friends!
MDN magic word = SPIRIT! yeah!
Much easier to knock down that to rise up…. thank the hedge fund managers for that strategy.
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Who’s next to fall?
Why does the King of Thailand deserve 64,000 votes???
With some of those names on there, I might as well be listed!
Who the – – – – are half these people? Don’t think I’m that oblivious to who’s who in the world.
He’s the King. It’s good to be the king. Who wants cake?
The fact that Microsoft has been successful in developing its current market share is evidence enough that Bill Gate’s company is influential. Tell me, do you know of any business that wasn’t influential that was also successful? In other words, you have to influence people to patronize your service or purchase your product in order to be successful otherwise you would fail. The number of total Windows users world wide speaks for itself that Microsoft has does a great job of bamboozling a rather large population.
Bill Gates’ influence hasn’t gotten to me yet. Oh wait, I did buy The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body CD-ROM for the kids in the mid-nineties. That one is published by Microsoft, so I guess Bill Gates influence has gotten to me too.
All Steve Jobs got me to do since then is purchase 3 Macs, 7 iPods, OS X upgrades, iLife, iWork, .Mac…
What a horrible voting interface. I think they are trying to discourage voters.
Which way round is the vote? It should say 1 for most, 100 for least, or the other way around… I hope we are actually voting SJ up and Gates down…
100 good, 1 bad
or maybe it is the other way round…
“Why does the King of Thailand deserve 64,000 votes???”
If you got an email or SMS saying ‘vote or else’, you might have added yours too!
[Disclaimer: This comment is meant to be funny only and is not an aspersion on Thailand, its King or subjects.]
“Microsoft has done a great job of bamboozling a rather large population.”
Well put ShadowMac…
Let’s hope that history records the Microsoft era as it really is, sorry, I mean ‘was’.
Make sure you set the slider to Rating 100 !!!!!
Steve is at 7, this morning he’d dropped, but picked up again.
Surprised they let you vote more than once, they should have at least planted a “cookie” to stop most from voting more than once.
I feel like there is some guy in a dark room hitting the Angelina Jolie button over and over again for days. She can’t be that popular.
mr jobs @ 4 with 89%
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you can vote more than once!
Why? His numbers indicate an automated voter.
Anyone have a counter script to help out our friends at Apple?
Bet it helps to go to anyone ranked ABOVE Steve and Johnathan and vote a 1. Because it’s not number of votes, it averages what the people were voted.
So I went through the higher ups a few times and put in a 1 for them.
To word that statement better:
I mean the poll averages the RANK of what the people voted (1 to 100) NOT the NUMBER of votes. Number of votes doesn’t matter.
IT2,
I have the same feeling, and have been doing the same. Anyone care to automate it?
Someone in Colbert’s camp is doing the same.