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. WoW I’m impressed. New there was a good reason I hung out here. Congratulations. That superman hero outfit fits him well…lol

  2. Congratulations, Aodhan!

    I love that picture of you and you sure look great in the suit! You’ve done a phenominal job for a”ten year old” and you sure have a lot of facial hair for that age, too. (Maybe you should get that checked out, huh?) Anyway, good job, mate!

    Sincerely,
    Cynde L. Hammond

  3. From Australia… Bewdy Mate! Well deserved – and thanks for keeping StatCounter free, it’s the best value tool on the ‘net.

  4. Congrats Aodhan. Just noticed the ‘internet hero’ link as I was installing code on another site, very true as you and statscounter.com are well deserved for the award for ‘the best’ stats tool around. Keep up the good work.

  5. Congrats and good luck for many more. It sure has been a very good addition to our website improvement/development.

  6. Congrats Aodhan, hope u get more awards.
    You’re already a hero. In the past, you already denied to give the users information to a big company – Old post.

    Well done and Keep it up.
    🙂
    International Insurance Web World

  7. Forgive my bad English. Congratulations. StatCounter is an indispensable tool in our daily work. We make life a little easier and better.

    Thank you very much

  8. You totally deserve this, Aodhan. Well done! You’ve solved our internet stats problems – any chance you could do something about the global financial meltdown now please?

  9. Congratulation Aodhan! It is really nice to see you selected as internet Hero Award! I am using Statcounter free of cost for past > 1yr.
    Thank You for the very good Statcounter

  10. As a customer, I probably appreciate you the MOST! Congratulations, and good luck in your future endeavors!

    Sincerely,
    Crystle Smith
    Crystlephotography.com

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  12. Congratulations Aodhan,

    The superhero title is well deserved for providing the ultimate statistics tool on the web – PERIOD –

    cheers
    xtian

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