- Danah Boyd
Danah Michele Boyd (born 1977), also known as danah boyd, is an American academic, researcher, and blogger best known for media appearances where she speaks about social networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace. Since 2003, she and her research have been quoted on the subject of social networking in dozens of different articles in media sources such as NPR, Wired, MSNBC, "USA Today", and "The O'Reilly Factor"..
- Lil' Kim
Kimberly Denise Jones (born July 11, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York), better known by her stage name Lil' Kim or her nickname Queen Bee, is a Grammy Award winning rap artist. Kim rose to fame in the mid 1990s and has become one of the two best selling female rappers of all time (along with Missy Elliott).
- John Doerr
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a successful venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley. Doerr obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976. Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor.
- Rupert Grint
Rupert Alexander Grint (born August 24, 1988) is an English actor best known for playing Ron Weasley in the "Harry Potter" films.
- Scott Sassa
Scott Sassa is currently Founder and CEO of uber.com a consumer internet site. Prior to that, he served as Residence with Kleiner Perkins, a leading technology venture capital firm. From 2004 to 2005, he served as President and CEO of Friendster, a top 50 Internet site that pioneered social networking. Friendster was backed by Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital.
- John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, political activist and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead.
- Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 - August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
- Herman Melville
Herman Melville (August 1 1819 - September 28 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels were bestsellers, but his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, "Moby-Dick" - largely considered a failure during his lifetime, …
- Andrew Bogut
Andrew Michael Bogut (born November 28, 1984) is an Australian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. Bogut was selected first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft. The 7'0", 245 lb (2.13 m, 111 kg) forward/center was a star at the University of Utah for two years before declaring for the draft. Bogut is the first Australian to be drafted first overall.
- 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, …
- Emitt Rhodes
Emitt Rhodes, an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, was born February 25, 1950 in Hawthorne, California. Considered by many as "the one man Beatles," Emitt Rhodes' recordings show a clear Paul McCartney influence in both vocals and musicanship. Emitt Rhodes began his career in musical ensembles The Palace Guard (as the group's drummer) and The Merry-Go-Round (multi-instrumentalist), leaving the drums to the expertise of Joel Larson.
- Rob Kutner
Rob Kutner is an American comedy writer. As a writer for "Dennis Miller Live", he was nominated for a 2003 Writers' Guild of America Award. After Dennis Miller Live left the air, Kutner went on to write for "The Daily Show", where he has won four Emmies to date. Additionally, he has won a Peabody Award and an award from the Television Critics' Association.
- Parrish Baker
http://www.truespoon.com;.
- Kenneth Udut
offers Naples Online Marketing, Collier County's Electronic Village at http://free.naplesplus.us also animal trapping company, Excel guru, researcher, composer, fascinated by the interconnected nature of all things, amateur scientist.
- Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng is a professional photographer specializing in underwater photography. He owns and maintains Wetpixel, an underwater photography site. He has authored many web journals documenting his trips around the world, and has been published in numerous publications, both in print and on the web. Eric recently won the animal antics category of the "2005 Nature's Best Photography Competition," which placed his winning image in the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum.
- Maddie Blaustein
- Patrick Herron
My Writing Bio.
- Jeff Winner
Jeff has worked in the valley for over twenty years in a number of Silicon Valley startups. For the last 10 years he has worked as a VP of Engineering. Prior to that Jeff was an Engineering Director at Netscape and one of the founders of Collabra.
- Ben Kamprath
Building better experiences through engaging design. We make it curve with style...
- The Scary Guy
At 6ft tall, 18 stone and tattooed from head to toe ... The Scary Guy is quite possibly the most powerful Agent For Change on the planet today! The Power to Create World Peace Lives Within Each and Everyone of Us. - The Scary Guy 2000
- Robert Mark White
I am a 52 year old Happily Married White Male. I was Born in Austin, Texas. I am current living in Parker, Colorado. I have two daughters, one son, and one grandson. I graduated High School from Sussex County Vo-Tech in Sparta NJ. I graduated from the Community College of Denver with a AS Degree.
- Christopher Kingsley
Just a guy from the Midwest trying to capture the world around us, show it to everyone for free, and ultimately transform the local search. Edges need to be cut.
- Rajesh Taneja
In my own words... in '93 I founded my IT services company - with a combination of good timing (right place - right time) and sheer perseverance, I found myself to be the due dilligence point of contact for a number of investors, M&A groups and VC firms. Through these relationships, I have served on the board of numerous companies (both public and private) and have worked througout North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific Region, living between Switzerland, Japan and Canada.
- Dave McClure
Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for almost twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, & internet marketing nerd. He is an advisor or investor for Mint, Mashery, Simply Hired, TeachStreet, Oortle, CrazyEgg, SlideShare, Eventvue, RichRelevance, HealthUnity, & Canopy Financial. Dave is the conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a co-chair for Web 2.0 Expo.
- 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.
- Marco Zamperini
http://funkyprofessor.blogspot.com/
- Andy Lien
Andy Lien was born in Huntsville, Alabama to Chinese immigrant parents. Raised in New Jersey, Austin, Beijing, and California, he now works at Spock.com as a software engineer. In his spare time, he enjoys reading Hacker News and rock climbing.
- Jodie Carn
Jodie Carn (born in 1948 in Santa Monica, California) is a cable television show host on Time Warner Public Access Cable and former actor and dancer. She is the daughter of Dona Massin, who choreographed several scenes in the film "The Wizard of Oz". Her father, Don Carn, was in real estate. Jodie started in show business at a young age in modeling. At the age of 11 she was modeling for Teen Magazine.
- Yad Bhatti
Yad Bhatti is one of the top real estate developers in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- Dimitri Hage
Over 20 years in leadership and general management experience in sales, marketing and business development in building successful organizations for both large multi-national corporations and leading-edge technology start-up companies in the voice and data communications industry (both wireless and wireline) in the US and abroad. Strong combination of technology, sales, and operating skills to provide effective product and systems solutions to customer challenges resulting in rapid . . .
- Jason Brown
Born in St. Louis, living in Seattle. I've spent my life trying to shed my midwestern inhibitions, eat everything in sight and figure out what I'm going to be when I grow up.
- Aldon Hynes
Old guard geek, interested in politics, technology and social media.
- Russ Sandlin
Over Twenty years of contact center management experience with emphasis in utilizing people, processes and technologies to optimize results. Managed all phases of operations for large call centers in Mexico, India, Pakistan, Dubai, Qatar, Philippines and US; Retained large Technology Company Financial Arm in Philippines Call center saving contract from point of 30 day notice of separation; Launched and managed 5 different large programs successfully in two different Philippine call . . .
- Craig Walker
Actor, Medievalist, Special Events Manager, Self-employed IT and Security Consultant, Australian male who goes to the gym fairly regularly. Enjoys writing, off-beat (cult) movies (especially Rocky Horror), Goth, Indie, Alternative music/clubbing and realises that this sounds like a pick up line.
- Tasha Luksa
I'm a traveller...not content to stay anywhere for too long. New to Chicago...love to keep it real...love meeting new people and just chilln' out. My favorite thing ever is cooking...and building web sites...user-centered design...and further educating myself. Plan to open my own company in the next 10 years or so. I like to relax but I admire a strong work ethic and a desire to succeed or a passion for your job.
- Keith Parent
"What terms shall i find sufficiently simple in their sublimity -.
- Dan Zappone
I'm anti-entropic, radically-skeptic, and generally optimistic. I dislike stupidty - mine and others. I do not believe anything.
- Chris Sniezek
BeerAdvocate and BoardgameGeek, first-generation Polish-American. A computer geek who's all about people.
- Howard Lubinger
Born in Suffern. Grew up in Ridgewood. Went to school in Connecticut. Lived in NYC. Now back in NJ. I like a lot of things.
- Tara Brown
Born and raised in Langley, a town outside of Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Has been residing in the USA and working for Microsoft for the past 7 years. Currently a Senior Lead Program Manager for Microsoft Office Live. Father owns a Fire Investigation company in B.C. and mother is a high school teacher and counsellor in northern B.C. Tara has a Bachelor of Science in Technology Management from BCIT. Wow, I sound like a robot. For fun I like stroking people's egos.