| Website | marban.com |
| Birthplace | Austria |
| Birthdate | 4/2/79 |
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 provides digital media asset management solutions for enterprise use and is among the global leaders in this space. He is creator of PopUrls, a famous mashup of the web’s most visited social news sites and portals that started a new trend in so called Single Page Aggregators. He is also part of to the Web Standards Project 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 and most widely used Twitter client for the Android OS. In 2009, Thomas worked with Kevin Kelly to relaunch the influential Cool Tools blog.
PopUrls and Twidroyd were acquired by Idealab in July 2010 for an undisclosed amount.
Thomas received an Honoree at the 11th Annual Webby Awards for enabling real world activities online.
