[Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America

[Carmel L. Vaisman]

Hi Sue, a few Israeli net celebs come to mind:



Yossi Vardi is kind of our Bill Gates, father of many startups, but the most 
famous of them is his son's startup, Mirabillis (ICQ). Not many ppl know 
today that instant messaging was invented by a few Israeli boys and then 
sold to AOL. they're still a myth here.

Ehud Tenenbaum is our Kevin Mittnick, the hacker nicknamed the Analyzer who 
broke into the Pentagon, NASA computers and many more, last decade. I think 
he works for the people he breached now after serving his sentence: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Tenenbaum



Kutiman is a local musician and artist that became world famous for his 
YouTube mixing project: http://thru-you.com/#/intro/, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiman



I dunno if meme stars count as famous internet people, but we have Tasha and 
Adi who started the "hey" lip-sync meme in 2005: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_CSo1gOd48 and if memes count you'll find 
many meme stars outside North America. "Juan Mann" from the free hugs 
campaign of 2006 is Australian, for instance.



Good Luck!



Carmel Vaisman
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Twitter @carmelva