SiliconBeat

Boy, we’re glad the wait is over. AskMen.com’s list of the Top 49 Men of 2008 came out today. (Why 49? No idea. And honestly, prior to today we’d never heard of the site, which includes this quote on its “about” page from a July issue of Time magazine: “Think of it as Cosmopolitan for men … AskMen is the go-to site for single guys on the make.” That is certainly a large target market.)

We went through the list, so you won’t have to, in order to locate the best and the brightest of Silicon Valley who made the list. Coming in at #2 is possibly the Valley’s biggest homegrown legend, Apple’s co-founder and eventually its messiah, Steve Jobs. He moved up in rank from #7 last year. Perhaps his recent fictional death at the hands of Bloomberg News helped power him up the list.

A bio of each winner is posted on the site, and includes a feature for each called “Woman Magnetism”. Here’s the lowdown on Jobs: “His tales of womanizing are almost as legendary in Silicon Valley as his professional exploits, but he has settled down and married since his crazy 1980s years. Still, his billionaire status still results in occasional offers of marriage from the Macintosh faithful.”

Coming in at #13 is Mark Zuckerberg, listed as the founder (uh, some might say co-founder?) and CEO of Facebook: “Although he has not done so without his share of controversy, Mark Zuckerberg carries on as the youthful face of a company some deem to be worth as much as $15 billion.”

Regarding Zuck’s Woman Magnetism feature, aside from the possibly 15 billion reasons he’s sexy, there’s the thoughtfulness of his relationship with Priscilla Chan, which reportedly includes certain rules, according to a book by by Sarah Lacy, which includes this: “One date per week, a minimum of a hundred minutes of alone time, not in his apartment, and definitely not at Facebook.“

Zuckerberg’s rank in last year’s survey is listed as N/A — not available? not applicable? Because he wasn’t rated in 2007? Guess AskMen just caught up with social networking sites.

Moving up from #33 to #23 this year is Jonathan Paul Ive, the British designer and senior vice president of industrial design at Apple. Ive is ” one of the key figures behind the design of such indelible Apple products as the iPhone, iMac and iPod, Jonathan Ive has revolutionized the way that consumers view computers and their various peripherals,” according to AskMen.com.

When we checked out jonathanive.com we also found out that “(i)n keeping with Jonathan’s fiercely-protected privacy, information is scarce about his life before joining Apple in 1992. Indeed his exact date of birth is not known by Apple and could not be published by Who’s Who when it featured him in 2007.”

And what about his Woman Magnetism? The Web site says he was featured in a 2007 article in The Observer “entitled ‘The 50 Men Who Really Understand Women,’ owing to what some have called his flair for ‘feminizing’ the design of computers and hand-held gadgets. Despite the fact that he’s happily married, Jonny Ive can be considered quite the catch owing to his senior position at Apple, which earns him in excess of $2,000,000 a year.”

Despite the fact that he’s married?

And who, you ask, ranked #1 on the list this year? Let’s just say a certain politician who has been in the news of late, whose staff is known to be quite adept at leveraging the Internet.