Beating Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, into second place, Mark Zuckerberg scooped the prestigious recognition of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. The aim of the title is to recognise the person who has “for better or for worse… done the most to influence the events of the year”.
A surprise choice perhaps, however ’ Time’ editor Richard Stengel said that the choice for this year’s award shows how much the way we communicate has changed. “The way we connect with one another and with the institutions in our lives is evolving,” he said. ”More than anyone else on the world stage, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is at the centre of these changes.”
Here at 247Moneybox.com we don’t find it such a surprising choice. We think that Zuckerberg’s success is down to his view of the internet as a way of connecting people as opposed to others who see the internet just as a network of computers.
However, being the portal to the internet is a very powerful position to start thinking about the monetising potential, and, who knows, maybe we are seeing a true rival to Google.
