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

Celum Imagine

celum IMAGINE is a web-based enterprise software product for digital asset management.Founded in 1999, celum is the vendor of celum Imagine, a digital media asset management solution and offers related services to multinational organizations and mid- to large-scale businesses...

 provides digital media asset management solutions for enterprise use and is among the global leaders in this space. He is creator of PopUrls

PopUrls

PopUrls is a mashup of the web's most visited social news sites and portals that encapsulates headlines of its sources in near-realtime. Introduced in March 2006 by Thomas Marban the site created a new trend in so called Single Page Aggregators and serves as a case study for Web Syndication...

, a mashup of the web's most visited social news

Social news

A social news website is a type of website that features user-submitted stories that are ranked based on popularity.-Slashdot:Slashdot, started in 1997, was one of the first social news websites. It focuses mainly on science and technology related news. Users can submit stories, and the editors...

 sites and portals that started a new trend in so called single page aggregators. He is also part of to the Web Standards Project

Web Standards Project

The Web Standards Project is a group of professional web developers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the web standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium, along with other groups and standards bodies....

 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 Twitter

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 client for the Android operating system.

In 2009, Thomas worked with Kevin Kelly to relaunch the influential Cool Tools

Cool Tools

The Cool Tools weblog is not in any way affiliated with the Cool Tools toy lineCool Tools is a weblog about "anything that can be useful"...

 blog.

PopUrls

PopUrls

PopUrls is a mashup of the web's most visited social news sites and portals that encapsulates headlines of its sources in near-realtime. Introduced in March 2006 by Thomas Marban the site created a new trend in so called Single Page Aggregators and serves as a case study for Web Syndication...

 and Twidroyd were acquired by Idealab

Idealab

Idealab is a business incubator based in Pasadena, California.-History:Idealab was founded by Bill Gross in March 1996...

 in July 2010 for an undisclosed amount.

PopUrls

PopUrls

PopUrls is a mashup of the web's most visited social news sites and portals that encapsulates headlines of its sources in near-realtime. Introduced in March 2006 by Thomas Marban the site created a new trend in so called Single Page Aggregators and serves as a case study for Web Syndication...

 was awarded as one of the Top 50 Websites of 2009 by TIME Magazine

Time (magazine)

Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...

  and in 2010 won the Groundswell Award by Forrester Research.

Thomas received an Honoree at the 11th Annual Webby Awards

Webby Awards

A Webby Award is an international award presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for excellence on the Internet with categories in websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile....

 for enabling real world activities online.

External links

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• tomatic.com, tomatic