- Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of close to 100 widely read blogs including Engadget, Joystiq, Luxist, Gadling and Blogging Baby. Weblogs, Inc. was founded in January of 2004 and spurred the growth of blogs. The company a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Calacanis, who was appointed a senior vice president of the AOL, maintains editorial supervision of Weblogs.
- Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column BoomTown originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web's major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper.
- Ted Leonsis
Theodore "Ted" J. Leonsis is a pioneer of the Internet and new media, a sports team owner, and an active philanthropist. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957 to Greek immigrant parents, their goal was for their only son to become educated and go to a good college.. As one of the country's premiere business leaders, Leonsis is a Vice Chairman of AOL LLC. He is also the majority owner of Lincoln Holdings LLC, …
- Mike Jones
Michael "Mike" Jones (born January 6, 1981 in Aldine, Texas, USA) is an African American southern rap artist, who initially was affiliated with the record label Swishahouse, then left to be the owner of Ice Age Entertainment. Mike Jones has a little brother who is an artist and part of Ice Age who goes by "King Mello". Recently, Jones announced his return to Swishahouse to distribute Ice Age.
- Randy Falco
As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL LLC, Randy Falco is responsible for setting strategy and overseeing the businesses and operations of this global Web services company, which operates some of the Internet's most popular destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs the country's largest Internet access business, and provides a full set of advertising solutions.
- Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey along with Jason Calacanis co-founded the publishing company Weblogs, Inc., home to such blogs as Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad Cinematical and Slashfood. Time Warner's America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging platform Blogsmith which Alvey built. Blogsmith is used to power Weblogs, Inc. and other AOL blogs such as TMZ.com.
- Jason Whitlock
Jason Lee Whitlock (b. 27 April 1967 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an African-American sportswriter for "The Kansas City Star" and for AOL Sports, a former contibutor to ESPN and a former radio personality for WHB and KCSP sports stations in the Kansas City area.
- Vanessa Fox
Vanessa Fox (born 1972) is the founder and product manager of Google Webmaster Central, as of 2007, and is a well-known blogger and public speaker. At conferences and on the Google Webmaster Central blog, Fox offers advice to webmasters to help get their sites listed in Google, and to solve problems they may have with the way Google indexes their pages. On June 14, 2007, Fox announced she would be leaving Google to join Zillow, an online real estate service company.
- Rich Skrenta
Richard "Rich" Skrenta (b.1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a computer programmer. In 1982, as a high school student at Mt. Lebanon High School, Skrenta wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II machines. It is considered the first computer virus to be found "in the wild." Skrenta graduated from Northwestern University. Between 1989 and 1991 he worked at Commodore Business Machines with Amiga Unix.
- Jim Barksdale
Jim Barksdale (born January 24, 1943) was the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999.
- Regina Lewis
Regina Lewis is an author, national TV contributor, tech-trend expert and host of DIY Network's "Tech Out My House", AOL Consumer Advisor. Lewis is the mother of three and has been cited on Capitol Hill for her work in championing online kids safety. She first appeared on national TV in 1999 on the CBS Early Show, later assuming a full-time role as an expert commentator for several national network and cable programs, including The Today Show, …
- Jeffrey Bewkes
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes (born 25 May 1952 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American media executive. He has served as CEO of Time Warner since January 1, 2008 and as President since December 2005. On January 1, 2009 he became Chairman of the Board in...
- Steve Park
Stephen Park from East Northport, New York was born August 23, 1967. He is currently unemployed. Park began racing not in an entry-level class, but in NASCAR Modifieds on Long Island (New York) as the son of longtime National Modified Championship contender Bob Park. After establishing himself in weekly Modified racing at Riverhead Raceway, he advanced to the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour (then known as the Featherlite Modified Series).
- Vincent Ferrari
Vincent Ferrari is a New York blogger who became famous in 2006 for his dealings with AOL and its customer service.
- Barry Schuler
Mr. Schuler has focused on developing emerging technologies into successful enterprises for the last 25 years. An Internet pioneer, Barry spent more than seven years with AOL, where he was the chief architect of the products and services that brought the Internet to the consumer. Most recently Barry served as chairman and chief executive officer of AOL. Barry was CEO and co-founder of multimedia design firm Medior Inc. Until its acquisition by AOL in 1995.
- Jeremy Jaynes
Jeremy Jaynes (born 1974) was a prolific e-mail spammer, broadcasting junk e-mail from his home in North Carolina, United States. Under a variety of aliases,, Jaynes was accused of utilizing T1 internet connections to send hundreds of thousands of e-mails per day, using e-mail lists later reported stolen from AOL and eBay, amongst others. Spamhaus, a directory of junk e-mailers, estimated that he was the eighth most prolific spammer in the world for the period in question.
- John Digweed
John Digweed (born January 1, 1967 in Hastings, England) is a British DJ and record producer. He began DJing at around age 13. His first breakthrough was getting a gig at the club Renaissance in Mansfield after fellow DJ Alexander Coe (aka Sasha) heard his demo. John Digweed, along with Sasha, as Sasha and Digweed, is known for promoting a progressive trance/house sound that became popular in Europe and North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
- Thomas Middelhoff
Thomas Middelhoff is a German corporate manager. Since May 2004, Middelhoff has been chairman of the supervisory board of KarstadtQuelle, and since May 12, 2005 he has been CEO of the company. Thomas Middelhoff was born in Düsseldorf, Germany as the son of a textile businessman. He studied business at the University of Münster and then doctored at the Institute for Marketing supervised by Heribert Meffert. While in university, he already worked in his father's business.
- Rick Smolan
A former "TIME", "LIFE" and "National Geographic" photographer, Rick Smolan has spent two decades finding ways to place himself and his projects directly in the path of the converging worlds of photography, design, publishing, and technology. Smolan created the best-selling "Day in the Life" photography series and is CEO of Against All Odds Productions, …
- Yossi Vardi
Yossi Vardi is one of Israel's early tech entrepreneurs. For 38 years he founded and helped build over 40 tech companies in diverse areas of software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics, clean water and others. In 1969, at the age of 26, he co-founded and was the first CEO of Tekem, one of the very first software houses in Israel (which became the largest software company at the time, was sold to Tadiran, went public and now is part of Ness).
- Judson Laipply
Judson (Jud) Laipply is an American motivational speaker and comedian from Cleveland, Ohio. He is best known for his performance in the Evolution of Dance clip, which, as of 2007-07-07, is the #1 Most Viewed All Time Video, and #6 Most Discussed Video on YouTube.com. "Evolution of Dance" is the finale to Laipply's show called "Inspirational Comedy". His website describes the show as "combining his thoughts about life and change with humor".
- Steve Case
Steve Case , Chairman As a businessman and philanthropist, Steve Case invests in diverse for-profit and nonprofit enterprises, with a particular interest in health care and the economic and social sustainability of Hawaii, his home state. To that end, he and his wife, Jean Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997. In April 2005, Steve launched Revolution, a company that seeks to drive transformative change by shifting power to consumers.
- Anastasia Goodstein
Anastasia Goodstein is the publisher of Ypulse, a Forbes magazine Best of the Web blog. She is also the author of Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online (St.Martin’s Press), which will be available March 20, 2007. Anastasia graduated from Antioch College, with a B.A. in Journalism/Women's Studies in 1995. After graduating, she began her youth-media career at Teen Voices magazine, which was written by and for teen girls.
- Joe Hewitt
Joe Hewitt is a software programmer who is best known for work in creating Firefox and other tools like FireBug and DOM Inspector. Early and while still in high school he created the website Feff World with Douglas Palermo. From 1995 through 1999 was a DHTML-obsessed web developer. Those of you who were around in 1999 might remember the short-lived SWAT library.
- Dan Benton
Dan Benton (born March 26, 1983) resides in Hurley, New York. He is currently the Vice President of Most Valuable Network [MVN], LLC but is better known for his blogging work on MVN and AOL Fanhouse. He is also the co-host of Outsider Radio, a product of 360 the Pitch owned by Brandon Rosage. He has had work featured or linked on Sports Illustrated, MSG Network, AOL, The Writers [TheMirl.com] and Yahoo Sports. His work can also be seen on Giants 101, The Bronx Block, …
- Dan Gilbert
Daniel "Dan" Gilbert is the Chairman and founder of Rock Finanical and Quicken Loans Inc. Dan Gilbert is also the majority owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers (having purchased them in March 2005). He then purchased the American Hockey League's Utah Grizzlies and brought them to Cleveland, and renamed them the Lake Erie Monsters.
- Tom Pepper
Tom Pepper (born August 25, 1975 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a computer programmer best known for his collaboration with Justin Frankel on the invention of the Gnutella peer-to-peer system. He and Frankel co-founded Nullsoft, whose most popular program is Winamp, which was sold to AOL in May of 1999. Afterwards, Tom worked inside of AOL as the manager of SHOUTcast, a leading internet streaming audio service, …
- Davis Wolfgang Hawke
Davis Wolfgang Hawke (born 1979) was a spammer, who was sued by AOL in 2004 under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. He changed his name from "Andrew Britt Greenbaum" to the current name on 1997 after his 18th birthday, presumably to hide his Jewish name (before becoming a spammer, Hawke organized Neo-Nazi rallies). AOL won a $12.8-million judgment against Hawke.
- Randall Boe
Randall Boe (1962 -) was General Counsel for AOL and has been involved in many ground breaking cases regarding internet law. He was born in Ohio and grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated in 1983 with majors in political science and economics. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1987. After graduation, he went to work at Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn in Washington, D.C. While at Arent Fox, …
- David Perry
David Perry is the Global Director of Education for Trend Micro, a computer antivirus software company. He represents Trend Micro at industry, government, customer and reseller events worldwide. He is a leading authority on computer
- Molly Holzschlag
Molly Holzschlag Former Group Lead and Member Emerita Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. Molly is an invited expert to the Internationalization GEO and HTML working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the former Group Lead and member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Among her thirty-plus books is the recent The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea.
- Jason Cranford Teague
Jason Cranford Teague is the author of the best-selling "DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web" (1999; now in its third printing). His other books include "Final Cut Pro 4 and the Art of Filmmaking" (2004) and "Photoshop at Your Fingertips" (2004) for various versions of Adobe Photoshop, starting at Photoshop 7 and including editions for each version that followed. He has contributed numerous articles to the "Apple Developers Connection", …
- David L. Smith
David L. Smith (born c.1968) is the writer of the Melissa worm. In March 1999, the then 31-year-old New Jersey programmer released the Melissa worm in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey. This was accomplished by deliberately posting an infected document to an alt.sex Usenet newsgroup from a stolen AOL account. It is believed that Smith named the virus after a lap-dancer he had known in Florida.
- Katie Jones
Katie Jones (b. 1971) runs a large Internet chat site, UKChat. After studying music at Cambridge she joined the new MSN in the UK in 1995 and helped launched its community pages. She moved on to AOL and later, in 1997, launched UKChat. Katie Jones has written extensively on Internet safety, including pieces for "The Guardian". She lives in Redmond, WA.
- Elwood Edwards
Elwood Edwards is an American voice over actor. He is best known as the voice of the Internet service provider America Online, which he first recorded in 1989. His greetings include "Welcome," "You've got mail," "You've got pictures," "File's done," and "Goodbye." In 1989, Edwards's wife overheard online service Q-Link CEO Steve Case describe how he wanted to add a voice to its user interface. In October Edwards's voice premiered on AOL's new program.
- Scott Werndorfer
Scott Werndorfer (born August 1, 1980) is the co-founder and head developer of Cerulean Studios, a company responsible for creating Trillian, a popular instant messaging client. Werndorfer is a native of Brookfield, Connecticut. He was a network security consultant at Integralis before founding Cerulean Studios. He did not complete college, but instead, used US$ 10,000 of his savings to start Cerulean Studios together with fellow computer programmer Kevin Kurtz.
- Jean Case
Jean Case CEO Case Foundation
- Mike Pinkerton
Mike "Pink" Pinkerton is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla browsers. He lectures on "Development of Open Source Software" at George Washington University. Pinkerton started working at Netscape Communications in June 1997 where he worked on the Netscape Navigator and then Mozilla browsers. While at Netscape he started development of the Camino (then Chimera) web browser with Dave Hyatt.
- Amy Dickinson
Amy Dickinson writes the syndicated advice column "Ask Amy". From her website at the "Chicago Tribune": :"In the tradition of the great personal advice columnists, Chicago Tribune's Dickinson is a plainspoken straight shooter who relates to readers of all ages. She answers personal questions by addressing issues from both her head and her heart.
- Tracy Reed
Tracy Reed is an American writer who created the first episodic online story, the "QuantumLink Serial" on AOL (then called Quantum Computer Services). The series debuted in 1988, and was played out in online chat rooms, emails and traditional narrative. The series also went by the name "The AppleLink Serial" and "The PC-Link Serial" on those services before they were all unified under the AOL brand when Quantum changed its name.