Internet Evolution is a website

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 which hosts discussion of news, analysis and opinion related to the future of the Internet. It was originally conceived as a publishing experiment by writer and media consultant Stephen Saunders with the goal of using very large amounts of proprietary content to create a highly qualified, highly engaged online community. Internet Evolution was launched in October, 2007 by UBM Techweb with sponsorship from technology and consulting firm IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

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In 2010, UBM launched DeusM, a start-up company, with the intention of repeating the Internet Evolution model. Stephen Saunders became Managing Director of DeusM which went on to launch another seven online communities in 2011.

Updated several times daily, the content at Internet Evolution includes opinion pieces written by editorial staff, independent analysts and registered members of its community, as well as streamed video content and live chats. Internet Evolution Radio also streams interviews with Internet analysts and opinion-formers.

Contributors to the site have included Parry Aftab

Parry Aftab

Parry Aftab is an American lawyer specializing in Internet privacy and security law, and is considered "one of the founders of the field of cyberlaw". She is the Executive Director of WiredSafety.org, a volunteer organization dedicated to online safety. She was featured in Chris Hansen's book, To...

, Jart Armin

Jart Armin

Jart Armin is an investigator, analyst and writer on cybercrime and computer security.He was an active participant in the origins of StopBadware, set up by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Google to track malicious web sites....

, Robert D. Atkinson

Robert D. Atkinson

Robert D. Atkinson is the President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.-References:...

, John Barnes

John Barnes (computer scientist)

John Gilbert Presslie Barnes is a British computer scientist best known for his role in developing and publicising the Ada programming language....

, Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf

Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn...

, Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books...

, Tom Hayes

Tom Hayes

Tom Hayes is an Irish Fine Gael politician and farmer. He is currently a Teachta Dála for the Tipperary South constituency....

, Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and author. He is particularly known for his view that the current Internet culture and the Web 2.0 trend may be debasing culture, an opinion he shares with Jaron Lanier and Nicholas G. Carr among others...

, Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson is an American author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages....

, Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction currently lecturing at De Montfort University, England. She was born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and went to high school on Vancouver Island. She dropped out of McGill University, Montreal after a year and a half and...

, Lawrence Roberts

Lawrence Roberts

Lawrence Roberts may refer to:*Lawrence Roberts , one of the 4 "fathers" of the Internet*Lawrence Roberts , American professional basketball player*Lawrence Roberts , Pennsylvania politician...

, Howard Schmidt

Howard Schmidt

Howard A. Schmidt is the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration, operating in the Executive Office of the President of the United States.One of Schmidt's leading policy objectives is the development of "National Strategy for...

 and Stephen Viscusi

Stephen Viscusi

Stephen Viscusi is an American Author, CEO, and Radio Host. Viscusi is the host of "On the Job," and CEO of New York executive search firm The Viscusi Group. Viscusi gives advice to both employees and job seekers. Stephen also runs a resume writing service...

. Guests on live streaming IE Radio have included Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark

Craig Alexander Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based international website Craigslist.-Biography:...

, Jason Calacanis

Jason Calacanis

Jason McCabe Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur and blogger. His first company was part of the dot-com era in New York, and his second venture, Weblogs, Inc., capitalized on the growth of blogs before being sold to AOL....

, Aneesh Chopra

Aneesh Chopra

Aneesh Paul Chopra is the first Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States .Chopra previously served as Virginia’s fourth Secretary of Technology. Prior to his government service, Chopra was Managing Director for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals and...

, Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He has a joint appointment at New York University as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Assistant Arts Professor in the New...

, Ellen Miller

Ellen Miller

Ellen Miller is currently an Executive Fellow at the London Business School and an independent consultant with a portfolio of board positions. Her areas of interest include diversity, career transition, leadership and management...

, Philip Rosedale

Philip Rosedale

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 and Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company....

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Editorial content from Internet Evolution has been featured in national and local media.

Sixty Days of Executive Education ("6DEE")

In 2010, Internet Evolution ran a series known as "6DEE" (Sixty Days of Eexecutive Education), which featured courses aimed to help executives understand Internet-related IT issues.. The series was launched with a lecture by Tim Westergren

Tim Westergren

Timothy Brooks Westergren , is a co-founder of Pandora Radio.-Biography:He was born on December 21, 1965 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Westergren graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in political science...

, a co-founder of Pandora

Pandora

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, and continued with presentations by speakers such as the writer and engineer Kenneth Hess

Kenneth Hess

Kenneth Lafferty Hess is an engineer, author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Hess is founder and president of Science Buddies, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering science literacy through the creation of free resources and services for K-12 students, teachers, and families...

 and writer and activist Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books...

. The 6DEE series won the 2011 Min's WOW Award.

Awards

• Min's Best of the Web 2009: Best Magazine Branded Show.
• Min's Best of the Web 2009: Best Community/Social Networking.
• Min's Best of the Web 2009: Digital Team of the Year.
• Min's Editorial and Design Awards 2009: Best Blog.
• Min's Best of the Web 2010: Best Advertiser Program/Partnership.
• Min's Best of the Web 2010: Best Overall Use of Video.
• Min's Most Engaged Media Brands: Winner.
• Folio's Eddie & Ozzie Awards 2010: Best Business-to-Business Science Site.
• Folio's Eddie & Ozzie Awards 2010: Best Business-to-Business Technology/Computing/Telecom Website.
• The Web Marketing Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development, 2011.
• The Web Marketing Association Award for Outstanding Website, 2011.
• Min's Integrated Marketing Awards 2011: Best Customized Website/Microsite.
• Min's Integrated Marketing Awards 2011: WOW award (for 6DEE series).