The Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger talks here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/17/communications-dec…) about his top 10 innovations from the last decade and how they’ve changed the world. It’s hard to argue with most of his choices.

It’s also interesting to see the differences in the companies that make up the list – the difference in headcount between Google (>10,000) and Craigslist (about 30), the open aims of iTunes U vs the closed system of iTunes/iPhone itself, the free policy of Wikipedia vs Facebook’s alleged exposures of personal data. It’s also interesting to note that on the list there are 8 companies (Apple is mentioned twice, the BBC is a public funded corporation although I’m counting Wikipedia as a company here) and 6 of them did not exist 12 years ago. Three of them (facebook, Twitter & Spotify) didn’t exist 5 years ago. Innovation is changing the world and the face of business.

What is your top 10?

(reposted from my blog at www.iesetech.ning.com)