- John Of Shanghai And San Francisco
Saint John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco was a noted Eastern Orthodox ascetic and hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) who was active in the mid-20th century. He was a pastor and spiritual father of high reputation, a Fool-for-Christ, and a reputed wonderworker to whom was attributed great powers of prophecy, clairvoyance and healing. - Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, pressed the committee on Sunday to begin investigating and make a preliminary report within 10 days. She demanded to know who knew of the messages, whether Foley had other contacts with pages and when the Republican leadership was notified of Foley's conduct. - Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which has since been called the Great American Novel, and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists, and European royalty. - Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites. - Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmark (born 6 December 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based website Craigslist. Newmark attended Morristown High School. Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University. Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. He has donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, … - Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Herman Boone. - Kevin Rose
Robert Kevin Rose (born February 21, 1977 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; better known as Kevin Rose) is best known for founding the social-bookmarking site Digg and as former co-host of the TechTV show "The Screen Savers" (later "Attack of the Show!" on G4) until his departure from the network in May 2005. He attended UNLV for computer science, but dropped out to pursue the 90's tech boom. - Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. - Evan Williams
Evan Williams, born in 1972, a native of Nebraska, is an American entrepreneur who has founded two Internet companies. Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google. - Mitch Kapor
Mitchell David Kapor (born 1950) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. He has been at the forefront of the information technology revolution for a generation as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist - Om Malik
Om Malik is the founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc., an online news and weblog that delivers technology news, analysis, and opinions to a monthly global audience of one million consumers and professionals interested in the world of hi-tech. His daily rants on tech/telecom and broadband can be found at http://gigaom.com . Panel: Panel Discussion: Scaling and High Availability Challenges - Dave Sifry
David Sifry is a serial entrepreneur with over 19 years of software development and industry experience. Before founding Technorati, Sifry was cofounder and CTO of Sputnick , a Wi-Fi gateway company, and previously, cofounder of Linuxcare, where he served as CTO and VP of Engineering. Sifry also served as a founding member of the board of Linux International and on the technical advisory board of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement nctp.org . - Caterina Fake
What she does: The co-founder of Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Fake was one of the pioneers of the site-based photo sharing model. Before Flickr, sharing photographs meant sending them piecemeal as email attachments. The site is now widely used as a photo repository by individuals and companies alike. How she got there: Fake graduated with a BA in English from Vassar. - John Battelle
John Battelle , 42, is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded scores of online, conference, magazine and other media businesses. Prior to founding Federated Media, Battelle co-founded and continues to serve as Executive Producer of the Web 2 Summit conference, as well as "band manager" with BoingBoing.net . - Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida (born September 6, 1972) is an American novelist, journalist, and editor who lives in San Francisco with her husband, writer Dave Eggers. She graduated from San Francisco University High School in her hometown before attending Middlebury College as an undergraduate. She received an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She has written three books, "Girls on the Verge", "And Now You Can Go", … - Stewart Edward White
Stewart Edward White was an American author. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he earned degrees from University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1895; M.A., 1903). From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books. Starting in 1922, He and his wife Elizabeth "Betty" Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travels around the state of California. White died in Hillsborough, California. - Maia Bittner
maia bittner is a young lady who worked at spock - Renee Blodgett
As President and Founder of Blodgett Communications, Renee Blodgett offers a very personalized approach of working with her clients, their customers and the influencers that impact them. She has been providing full service corporate communications, public relations and marketing consulting for worldwide technology companies and executives for nearly twenty years. - Robert Haga
Robert Haga, Chief of Staff to Commissioner Chong. He was Vice President of Strategic Planning and USAC Operations at the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) in Washington D.C. Mr. Haga joined USAC in 1998 as its third employee, and during his seven years with USAC, he was responsible for a broad range of issues, including the high cost and low income support mechanisms, corporate finance, information technology, and audits. - Elizabeth Whitener
I am the reflector of light. Nothing stands in the way of the light, even when carried by a child of darkness. To some, an influential punk promoter in the 80’s. Yet my past does not define me. Technical degree-Sonic Arts/Sound Design, under Fred Catero. Consulted for Capitol Records. Organized musical festivals & events, successful Entertainment Producer & Corporate Event Coordinator. I live with my 15 yro son in Austin and work as a Technical, and Gaming Industry Recruiter. - Harry McCracken
Named Editor in Chief of PC World in March 2004, Harry McCracken oversees all editorial and design for PC World, PCWorld.com, and the PC World Test Center. His areas of expertise include the Internet, PC service and support, digital imaging, and other aspects of technology; his "Up Front" column opens each issue of the magazine. McCracken also authors PC World's Techlog, a Web log with news, opinions, and links on PCWorld.com. - Gustavo D'Orazio
Gustavo D'Orazio, (May 4th, 1899 - September 18th, 1951), was a Caporegime in the Mafia. He served under the Hugo Family, which was an organized crime organization operating in the city of San Francisco. - Matt Lawson
Matt manages product and business development at Spock. The best place to find him is on Spock.com. - Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company. - Irina Shamaeva
Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva Email irina@braingainrecruiting.com - Paul Willard
Online product manager, heavy on UI and data. - San Francisco
I'm home to thousands of freaks, yuppies, punks, sexual. - San Francisco
First Name: San Last Name: Francisco. - San Francisco
I am one of the great cities of the world, and by far the most interesting and intriguing city *I* know of... I sit at the tip of a peninsula (quite comfortably, as tips of peninsulas tend to be), and am a marvel to gaze upon - from any angle (I don't have a 'bad' side - though, I certainly do have a seedy underbelly). I am brimming with richness and variety, sophisitcation, charm, and charisma - and still, I can be a total slut without jeopardizing any of that. - Anton Lavey
Anton Szandor LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey (11 April, 1930 - 29 October, 1997) was the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan as well as a writer, occultist, musician, and actor. He is the author of "The Satanic Bible" and the founder of LaVeyan Satanism, a synthesized system of his understanding of human nature and the insights of philosophers who advocated materialism and individualism, … - San Francisco
I'm the city by the Bay, what can I say? I'm the reason. - Omar Vizquel
Omar Enrique Vizquel (born April 24, 1967 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball shortstop playing for the San Francisco Giants. Previously, Vizquel played for the Seattle Mariners (1989-93) and the Cleveland Indians (1994-2004). Vizquel is considered one of baseball's all-time best defensive shortstops, having nine consecutiveGold Gloves (1993-2001) and two consecutive in 2005-2006. - Wen-Wen Lam
Wen-Wen Lam is currently running marketing for Renkoo. When she isn't out and about planning fun events with her friends, she can be found learning about marketing, bikram yoga, shopping, and keeping up with the latest celebrity gossip. Prior to Renkoo, she was part of the marketing team at LinkedIn. - San Francisco
The greatest city in the world! - Liam Mayclem
"live each bloody day to the fullest as if each was you last, and laugh and swing your pants along the way.". - San Francisco
This is Helene and Josh, the authors of San Francisco the Unknown City, an alternative guidebook published by Arsenal Pulp Press that includes stories of notorious murders, city hall scandals, untold tales of Chinatown, Haight-Ashbury, and Castro Street, secret dining pleasures, shopping meccas, and nightclub hotspots in San Francisco. Check out our book on Amazon. - Travis Ishikawa
Travis Takashi Ishikawa is a Minor League Baseball first baseman and leftfielder. His father is Japanese and his mother is Caucasian. He made his major league debut on April 18, 2006 against the Arizona Diamondbacks. - Kevin Pollak
Kevin E. Pollak (born on October 30, 1957) is an American actor, impressionist and comedian. His well-known impressions include Albert Brooks, Christopher Walken, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin and William Shatner. As an actor, Pollak's trademark is usually playing the best friend or confidant characters to the leading men, as he did in "Ricochet" (1991), "End of Days", "A Few Good Men" (1992) and "The Wedding Planner" (2001). - Hsuan Hua
Venerable Master Hsuan Hua (Traditional Chinese: 宣化上人; Hanyu Pinyin: "Xuān Huà Shàng Rén", literal meaning:"proclaim and transform") (16 April, 1918 - 7 June, 1995), also known as An Tzu and Tu Lun, was a Buddhist monk and an important figure in Western Mahayana Buddhism. Master Hsuan Hua was the founder of the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (DRBA), a Buddhist organization with chapters in the United States, …
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