After writing a couple of posts on people behind most famous websites and people who made top social bookmarking sites. Now let me introduce to some of the woman who were behind some of the famous websites. There are still many women apart from the ones mentioned in this post but I just made a list of only few.

1.Flickr: 35th most visited website wouldn’t have been with yahoo if Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield wouldn’t have made it. It is a photo sharing website commonly tagged under image and video hosting site launched in February 2004 after a year of its launch and popularity it was being bought by yahoo for $35 million.
Caterina Fake Co-founder of Flickr
Caterina Fake
2.Blogger: This website is most famous website which host many blogs through it. It was initially a website designed by Pyra Labs later acquired by google. So to remind the key persons behind Pyra Labs are Evan Willams and Meg Hourihan. Meg Hourihan is one of the co founder for Pyra Labs. She is now taking break with her family and her blog.

Meg Hourihan Pyra Labs Blogger
Meg Hourihan
3.Meebo: Many websites and blogs have a multiple IM widget from meebo. This meebo widget is used for staying online through multiple email ID’s. This widget came live from Agust 2006. Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg and Elaine Wherry were the founders of meebo. Sandy Jen and Elaine Wherry almost appeared in almost all women entrepreneurs list.
Elaine Wherry and Sandy Jen Meebo
Elaine Wherry and Sandy Jen

4.Blurb: Tiered of searching a publisher for your book, need to convert your PDF to a book, want books or brochures of your company to be printed at a really affordable price then I think you must take a look at Blurb. This book publishing based website has a woman named Eileen Gittins who is the founder and CEO for the company. This company had been started in 2005 and published more than 1.3 million books and has sales of more than $47 millions. Blurb has an alexa rank of 9,435 as on April 2011.
Eileen Gittins Blurb
 Eileen Gittins

5.Ning: A website which allows a user to create their own social networking website is Ning. Since it was launched users were rapidly growing. It offered free services in the beginning but due to its popularity now it allows a 30 day free trial. It is the 250th most visited website in the world. Ning was founded by Gina Bianchini along with Marc Andreessen. She is the CEO of ning.
Gina Bianchini Ning
 Gina Bianchini

6.Pixelqi: One Laptop per child is the concept of Pixelqi. And the person who wanted to her way in bringing out a affordable laptop was Mary Lou Jepsen the Founder and CEO of Pixelqi. Having won many awards company is looking forward to improvise their products like bringing out nice LCD designs and so.
Mary Lou Jepsen Pixelgi
 Mary Lou Jepsen

7.Consorte Media: Advertising companies are at heavy demand these days and in this crowding season of companies Consorte Media could make its presence a unique presence. Way back in 2005 it was established with its Headquarters in San Francisco. CEO of this company is Alicia Morga who formerly acted as CEO of Zero Gravity Internet Group, Inc and VP for Napster.
Alicia Morga Consorte Media
 Alicia Morga

8.SpikeSource: This is a software testing company which is now being purchased by Black Duck Software in December 2010. This company used to test the quality of open source software which was headed by Kim Polese who has been the CEO for the company until it was sold.
Kim Polese spikesource
 Kim Polese

9.BabyCenter: All about parenting and motherhood can be found in this site. Tina Sharkey acts as the Chairman and Global President for this company. This website is among the 1000 top visited websites in the world. It is most widely visited website by many women.
Tina Sharkey babycenter
 Tina Sharkey

10.SlideShare- A slide hosting service launched in October 2004 headed by Rashmi Sinha cofounder and CEO made a special place in the web world. This website being the 255th most visited website has already created news in many of the technology blogs and websites. She is an Indian born American who after her PhD tasted this success.
Rashmi Sinha slideshare
 Rashmi Sinha

11.Marketing Zen(clicktoclient): A web designing company which handles the designing, SEO, development and marketing was founded by Shama Kabani. She is also one of the young woman entrepreneur who did it her way after being rejected for her work on social media but now owns her company  Marketing Zen (clicktoclient) which has made leaps in the online market.
Shama Kabani clicktoclient
 Shama Kabani

12. Internqueen: A Consultancy website for Internship placement has been launched by Lauren Berger. After completing 15 internship programs in four years she got this idea of a consultancy helping students and parents who are looking around for a proper guidance. Now she acts as the CEO of Intern Queen Inc.
Lauren Berger Internqueen
 Lauren Berger

13.Sixapart: Movable type and typepad are some of the blogging platform which are a part of sixapart. This company was co founded by Mena Trott along with her husband Ben. These two platforms made the blogosphere a rich place for many blogs.
Mena Trott Sixapart
Mena Trott


These were some of the powerful woman who were behind some of the useful and famous websites which are used by many. These woman had been an inspiration to many hope you who read this article work out on your dream like they have done.

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