Internet Hero!

Folks,

We’re delighted to let you know that Aodhan Cullen (founder and CEO of StatCounter) has been chosen as this year’s Internet Hero at the eircom Golden Spider Awards! The award, sponsored by Business and Finance, was created to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to the development of the internet.

Aodhan was honored to receive the award from last year’s Internet Hero, Dr. Denis Jennings.

Here’s a transcript of the speech given by Aodhan last night as he accepted the award in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin…

    Once upon a time, there was a little boy who lived in Castleknock [residential area in Dublin, Ireland]. Although small for his age and quite shy, this young chap was also very determined… he wanted to earn some extra pocket money [allowance] and he wanted to earn it NOW!

    So, despite being just 10 years of age, he put an ad in the Golden Pages [telephone and business directory] for typing services… “£2 / page & a free copy with that!”

    Although he counted doctors, professors & other highly qualified people among his clients, I can assure you that 10 year old had absolutely no idea that 15 years later he would be standing here tonight before his peers to accept such a prestigious award.

    “Business Link” that first typing business is no more but these days I work on StatCounter – a free online visitor stats tool that helps 2 million website owners and bloggers worldwide understand and optimise their websites. If you haven’t yet got a StatCounter on your website, then you need to get one! Look us up tomorrow!

    I am thrilled & humbled to be the recipient of this year’s Internet Hero Award. Tonight I’m being presented with some big shoes & I hope I can fill them.

    I’d like to thank a few people:

    • The judges for choosing me.
    • All the team at eircom and Business & Finance for organizing tonight’s event.
    • All my family & parents – who still to this day, get calls asking about CV [résumé] typing!
    • And of course my wife Jenni who is thrilled to be Mrs Internet Hero 2008!
    • Thanks also to my colleagues on the StatCounter Team and all the StatCounter members worldwide – without their loyalty & support I wouldn’t be here tonight.

    Finally, I want to thank all of you sitting here tonight, my friends & peers in the internet industry – many of you have offered advice & support to me over the last 15 years, in some cases just via email or message boards so that we have never actually met in person. To one and all – thank you!

    And I look forward to trying to live up to my new title in the next 12 months.

    Goodnight and God bless!

We, the StatCounter Team, don’t think Aodhan will have any trouble living up to the new title… look how well the suit fits?! 😉

244 Comments

  1. Congrats! and Loads of Thanks for such service!
    Great work indeed.

    Bring back the medals, baby!

    Do we have more picts of the event?

  2. Congratulations and thanks for years of impeccable service.

    And, erm, yes, he is a looker!

  3. congratulation Aodhan -wish you a very good luck and best wishes from the depth of our heart .
    u really deserve this man.

    best of luck

  4. Congratulations Aodhan – StatCounter is the only reliable counter I’ve found to use on my blog. Keep up the great work!

  5. Hey,,

    Congrats Aodhan…. Statcounter has proved to be invaluable tool in tracking my stats and finding out where exactly im going wrong..

    u really deserved the award..

    Congrats again

  6. Great news. We have a B&B in Southern Spain and Statcounter is invaluable to us in tracking where we are getting hits. Great value for money, best thing on the web, I think.

    Again congrats!!!!!

  7. Congrats Aodhan!

    That’s just downright awesome! Good job…

    All of my sites have Stat Counter on them, and I just love it! I’m addicted to coming and looking at stats several times a day, I think…LOL…

    You rock! Thanks so much for such a great resource!

    Kimberly 🙂

  8. Congrats Aodhan… and thank you. I use StatCounter on everyone of my sites. I appreciate what you’ve done for me and the Internet.

    Kenney

  9. WOO HOO! Congrats to Mr. Internet Hero 2008. You deserve it. Well done, now let’s begin the campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize.

  10. Again Congratulations to you young man.

    Is Internet Hero a bit inaccurate? The impact you make goes far beyond virtual affecting real-lives in real-time, as you can see by the many comments.

  11. Well-deserved recognition for a valuable service to us bloggers–StatCounter is one of my favorite things to rave about when I write about Internet tools for content providers, writers, journalists and whomever else–best, Kay Day

  12. Congratulations!!!

    You have really done an excellent work, and without StatCounter I would feel absolutely clueless about the visitors to my website.

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