In less time than Sarah Palin has served as governor of Alaska, Ben Huh’s company has grown from a tiny blog to a network with over 100 million page views a month. The company runs I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL blog, EngrishFunny, and many other sites that will make you LOL. I met the co-founders, Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami at ROFLCon in Cambridge, Massachusetts this year. They are releasing their LOLcat book just in time for the holiday season.
Martin Sargent is a TV personality perhaps best known for his time spent working on The Screen Savers at TechTV which later became G4. In 2005, he launched a show named Infected with Revision3. Infected ended in 2007 after 50 episodes and in 2008 Sargent introduced Internet Superstar, a show about internet celebrity. He currently hosts the show along with Web Drifter at Revision3.
Tom Anderson is the President of MySpace. As of September 3, 2008, Tom has over 243 million friends because he’s all users first friend when they start an account on MySpace. Michael Arrington at Tech Crunch calls Anderson a real life “WarGames hacker.”
Lil’ Wayne’s Lollipop music video has been recreated by two young up and coming women artists, Madison and Erin. Madison’s a micro-celebrity on Myspace where you may listen and download her music for free.
Drew Curtis is micro famous for his large presence online and involvement in off beat news aggregation. Fark started because Curtis liked to share news stories with his friends when in college and channeled his hobby into a website. Once Fark took off, he leveraged his fame into a multi-million dollar business and a best seller book on Amazon.
Leo Laporte is a tech broadcaster who gained popularity by podcasting and streaming live video at TWiT.tv, This Week in Tech. Laporte is known for being exceptionally insightful on new tech products and gadget reviews propelling TWiT to one of the most popular shows on iTunes and Stickam.
Felicia Day is widley known for her role in Buffy The Vampire Slayer in 2003. After tracking a long history in film and television, Felicia started her own web show, The Guild, which won the Greenlight Award for Best Original Digital Series Production at SXSW, the YouTube Video Award for Best Series, and the Yahoo! Video Award for Best Series. Recently, she stared in Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog created by Joss Whedon (also creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) which was a runaway hit online. Few others have yet to make as much of an impact in both the traditional and new media worlds.
Ask A Ninja is one of the most popular and well known comedy shows online. Created by Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask A Ninja answers questions from the audience in a spontaneous and very exaggerated way. The two creators have leveraged the success of their show into a position writing for a Hollywood remake of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Also look for a published book by the duo later this year.
Fast Lane Daily is a news show about cars. They are the most popular web show that covers all the automotive information you want to hear about under 5 minuets every day. He won a people’s choice Webby Award this year and says the show averages 130,000 views a day.
Update: Fast Lane Daily won an award this year and Derek D accepted it. I was there clapping in the audience.
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