Thomas Marban
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| Born | 1979 Linz, Austria |
Thomas Marban is an Austrian entrepreneur and founder of several technology startups. After incorporating one of the first web agencies in the mid-nineties, his subsequent company celum Imagine provides digital media asset management solutions for enterprise use and is among the global leaders in this space. He is creator of PopUrls, a mashup of the web's most visited social news sites and portals that started a new trend in so called single page aggregators[1]. He is also part of to the Web Standards Project and Jury member for the annual WebAwards. Today, his holding company tomatic focuses on funding and creation of micro web properties. He's also co-founder of Twidroyd, the first[2] Twitter client for the Android operating system.
In 2009, Thomas worked with Kevin Kelly to relaunch the influential Cool Tools blog.[3]
PopUrls and Twidroyd were acquired by Idealab in July 2010 for an undisclosed amount.[4]
PopUrls was awarded as one of the Top 50 Websites of 2009 by TIME Magazine [5] and in 2010 won the Groundswell Award by Forrester Research.[6]
Thomas received an Honoree at the 11th Annual Webby Awards for enabling real world activities online.[7]
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- Official website, home
- tomatic.com, tomatic
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