The Top 10 Lists

 

10. Nick Denton - Founder, Gawker Media

British journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com.

 

Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. He co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called All That Glitters. He was one of the founders of a social networking site called First Tuesday and co-founded Moreover Technologies with David Galbraith and Angus Bankes, schoolmates from UCS.

Denton was featured in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007 in position 502 with an estimated wealth of £140m (approximately $290m) based on the sale of his previous companies and the current value of Gawker Media. He was once featured in a Vanity Fair photoshoot.

Denton is openly gay.

 

9. Drew Curtis - Founder, Fark.com

Founder and an administrator of Fark.com. He graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa in 1995. From 1996 to 2002, he owned and operated DCR.NET, an ISP based in Frankfort, Kentucky. Curtis published his first book It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News in May 2007. It soon became a bestseller.

 

8. Bram Cohen - Cofounder, BitTorrent Protocol

American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon, organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting, and the co-author of Codeville.

 

He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Jenna and their three children.

 

7. Jean-Francois Clavier - Founder and Managing Partner, Softtechvc.com

Angel investor in Web 2.0 startups like NetVibes, personal-finance service Mint, and social advertising network SocialMedia. Five of his investments have exited the market via acquisition by Yahoo!, AOL, and others.

 

6. Pete Cashmore - founder, Mashable.com

New media expert, technology consultant, and founder of Mashable, one of the top-twenty blogs in the world according to Technorati. Founded in July 2005, the site focuses on “all that’s new on the Web” including information about social networks, websites, and content.

 

Cashmore was selected as a top 25 Forbes Web Celeb in 2007 and was also featured in BusinessWeek.

 

5. Dries Buytaert – Founder and Lead, Drupal.org

An open-source software programmer and the founder and lead of the Drupal CMS. Buytaert defended his PhD dissertation in Computer Science on January 27, 2008 at the University of Ghent in Belgium.

From 1999─2000 he was the maintainer of the GNU/Linux WLAN FAQ.

 

On December 1, 2007, Dries announced, together with co-founder Jay Batson the launch of a start-up called Acquia. Acquia wants to be to Drupal what Red Hat has been to Linux.

 

On March 31, 2008, Dries launched Mollom, a service dedicated to stopping website spam: "Mollom's purpose is to dramatically reduce the effort of keeping your site clean and the quality of your content high. Currently, Mollom is a spam-killing one-two punch combination of a state-of-the-art spam filter and CAPTCHA server." Over 4,000 websites are protected by the Mollom service. More than 100,000 messages are being analyzed every day.

 

4. Sergey Brin – President Google Inc

Russian-American computer scientist best known as the co-founder of Google, Inc., the world’s largest Internet company, based on its search engine and online advertising technology. As of 2009, Forbes ranks Brin as the 26th richest person in the world.

 

Brin immigrated to the United States at the age of six. Earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, he followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, double-majoring in computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford to acquire a Ph.D in computer science. There he met Larry Page, whom he quickly befriended. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin’s data mining system to build a superior search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their Ph.D studies to start up Google in a rented garage.

 

The Economist magazine referred to Brin as an “Enlightenment Man," and someone who believes that “knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance," a philosophy which is summed up by Google’s motto of making all the world’s information "universally accessible and useful."

 

3. Jeff Bezos – Chairman and CEO, Amazon.com

American founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994. He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999. In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's Best Leaders.

 

2. Steve Ballmer – CEO, Microsoft Inc

Steven Anthony Ballmer (born Detroit, Michigan March 24, 1956) is an American businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. Ballmer is the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder. In Forbes 2008 World's Richest People ranking, Ballmer was ranked the 43rd richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $11 billion.

 

1. Michael Arrington - Blogger/publisher, TechCrunch.com

Entrepreneur and founder/co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet. In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world. Wired magazine also included him in a flowchart of "internet blowhards" citing his obsession with "Web 2.0".

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10. WOW Philippines (Chocolate Hills)

The Chocolate Hills in Bohol is perhaps one of the most beautiful tourist attraction in the Philippines. People who first see these natural wonders can’t even believe that they are not man-made attraction. They are uniform in shape and size (approx 30-50 meters in height). They are covered in grass, and when those grass dries they turn into dark brown, making them look like chocolates.

 

9. WOW Philippines (Asia TV Spot)

This “more than the usual” commercial was first aired on CNN and BBC. They’ve attracted so much attention that the Department of Tourism decided to put up short teasers featuring things and places that can only be found in the Philippines. One famous commercial was with the natives of Ifugao conversing in English.

 

8. WOW Philippines (Islands)

In Dubai and Japan, they build islands for recidencial and commercial space. In the Philippines, we have so many islands that some common people have their own island. Now, how cool is that.

 

7. SMART/DOT (Action)

This commercial was created by the department of tourism with SMART telecommunication to attract locals to travel around the Philippines. This TV Spot features extreme sports that’s becoming more and more popular in the Philippines like 4W-tours, Rowing, Kayaking, Mountain climbing, BMX, and Diving.

 

6. SMART/DOT (Iba't-Ibang Pasko)

The Philippines has earned the distinction of celebrating the world’s longest Christmas season. The celebration begins in mid-October lasting up to December 31st when Filipino families gather for the celebration of New Year. Filipinos loves to celebrate that it’s the only country in Asia that celebrates the death and birthdays of each of the catholic saints. It’s an all year round celebration; you just have to know where to go.

 

5. SMART/DOT (People and Culture)

The Filipinos are famous for their hospitality. Their attitude towards other people is exceptional.

It is common for Filipinos to reserve a part of their house for their guest. Notice when you first enter a Filipino home, you are greeted with furnitures wrapped in plastic (so as not to damage the furniture for everyday use). These plastics are then removed when a visitor arrives.

 

When you arrive in a Filipino home during meal time, you will not be asked to wait, instead you will be asked to sit down and share whatever they have on the table.

 

4. WOW Philippines (Shopping)

Shopping in the Philippines can be fun. There are a lot of options to choose from. Different designer stores are located all over the metro.

 

But the most exciting part when shopping in the Philippines is bargaining. If you have never experienced bargaining with Filipino vendors before, you should try it. It’s the most fun thing in the world. If you don’t understand what they are saying, just ask some random stranger walking around to translate for you, they will be happy to accommodate you.

 

3. WOW Philippines (The Philippines)

From shopping to adventure, our Island has it all!

 

2. SMART/DOT (Fiestas)

The Philippines is well known for its colourful festivals. Featured in this video are the Masskara Festival, Sinulog Festival, Ati-Atihan, Santacruzan, and the Moriones Festival.

 

1. WOW Philippines (English)

When the American teachers called the Thomasites arrived in the Philippines and establish the public schools system all over the nation, the first thing they thought the Filipinos is the English language. From then on, Universities and secondary schools in the Philippines use the English language as a medium of instruction.

Despite being one of the poorest nation in southeast Asia, Filipinos are still the happiest people on earth. These collection of videos from the popular website YouTube is a testament to the Filipinos unending search for happiness. They might be inside a prison cell, or a tricycle driver (Ronaldo Lapuz), they will never forget how to find that speck of happiness, no matter how small.

 

These are the top 10 Filipino sensations on YouTube. Enjoy!

 

10. Cebu Inamates “Thriller Dance Exercise”

Author-creator Byron Garcia is the brother of Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, GSIS General Manager, Winston Garcia, and Congressman Pablo John Garcia. Their parents are Deputy Speaker Pablo P. Garcia and Judge Esperanza “Inday” Fiel-Garcia, who had 8 children (4 sons).

 

Garcia originally wanted to introduce a program at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) where inmates would exercise for an hour each day. He saw waves of prisoners in the exercise yard and thought it looked good.

 

He introduced an exercise program where the prisoners marched in unison, starting out with marching to the beat of a drum, but moved on to dancing to pop music; he began with one of his favourite songs, Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)". He chose camp music such as In The Navy and Y.M.C.A. by The Village People, so macho prisoners would not be offended at being asked to dance.

Garcia's first upload of prisoner choreography was the Algorithm March, but this was almost entirely ignored. Thriller was uploaded on July 17, 2007.

 

9. Edu Manzano’s “Papaya Dance”

Edu Manzano-popularized "Papaya Dance" has become a hit to Filipinos here and abroad. It was so popular that the American morning news show “Good Morning America” did a segment about it.

 

8. Single Gaydies (Single Ladies by Beyonce)

I don’t really know what to make of this video, but you can’t deny that these Filipino gay kids are hilarious. I think their own version of the dance is better compared to other Filipino celebrities. They really know how to shake it and groove it.

 

7. Charice Pempengco – Singing the “Star Spangled Banner”

After being featured on the popular day time TV talk show “The Ellen Show”, Charice has become a global phenomena. She was even invited to sing the national anthem of the United States of America.

 

6. Ronaldo Lapuz – "We’re Brothers Forever" song at the American Idol Finale

Lapuz was a native of the Philippines. His mother was of German descent and lives in Wisconsin. Lapuz immigrated to the United States in 2004, and worked as a janitor at Greyhound and Wal-mart. Lapuz regularly sang as a member of the Filipino Choir at Immaculate Conception Church in Reno, Nevada.

In 2007 Renaldo Lapuz auditioned for American Idol in Dallas, Texas. For his audition, he sang his own original song, "We're Brothers Forever", while wearing a handsome wide-brimmed, winged, marabou feather-covered white hat with the word "SIMON" printed on it and a metallic silver cape. During his audition, which aired in January, judge Simon Cowell complemented him but gently rejected him by saying of his performance "I'm going to make a prediction here. I have a horrible feeling that it's going to be a hit record. You're very entertaining. I actually like you... but it's going to be a no." Lapuz returned to the show to sing his song during the Finale of American Idol Season 7 in May 2008, supported by the University of Southern California marching band.

 

5. ‘Keys Me’ – Alyssa Alano

Alyssa was entangled in an internet meme in the Summer of June 2006. Alano performed the song Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer on an episode of GMA Network's late night show Master Showman Presents. Alano sang the English song in a heartfelt, cheerful way, but with a heavy Tagalog accent, which was then mocked in a mondegreened video posted on YouTube posted by "calimanok". The video contains subtitles, containing such mondegreens as "Keys Me". Toward the end of the month, the clip had been viewed over 500,000 times.

 

Apparently, Alano had no idea that her YouTube video became an Internet meme until it was shown to her during an interview on the show Chika Minute.

 

Interestingly, Alano has been a good sport in her reactions to the sudden popularity of her singing video, even publicly thanking the anonymous prankster who created the clip, saying it got her a lot of attention/publicity, and that it has truly helped her showbiz career take off. She has since appeared in a few TV talk shows to jokingly re-sing "Keys Me" along with the clip's audio track.

 

Alano's pranksters have also broadcast another karaoke-style video of her singing "Whenever, Wherever" by Shakira and "Crush" by Jennifer Paige.

 

4. Charlie Green – Britain’s Got Talent

I first saw this video while watching primetime news. His voice was so awesome that I immediately googled him . Now, he is one of the most promising young singers in the world, in league with Charice Pempengco herself. His mother must be so proud of him.

 

3. Madonna Decena – Britain’s Got Talent

Her audition to the popular British talent search competition brought tears to one of her judges eyes. Her powerful performance even awed Simon Cowel.

 

2. Arnel Pineda on the ‘Ellen Show’

In 1982, when Pineda was 15 years old, he became the lead singer of the Filipino musical group called Ijos Band. He used to sing in Shakey's Taft. In 1986, some members of Yjoz formed a group called Amo. Amo entered and won the Rock Wars contest in the Philippines.

 

In 1988, Amo entered and won the Philippines leg of the Yamaha World Band Explosion. They went on to the finals in Hong Kong, but were not qualified to win due to a technicality. The rules stated the winning song had to be an original composition. However, they also stated that the song entry in the finals had to be the same song with which the band won their country's leg of the competition. Amo's winning song in the Philippines was Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", obviously not an original. After the contest, the band continued as Amo, performing live. They opened for Robert Palmer in Manila in 1989. Amo played in clubs in Quezon City, Olongapo City and Makati City, which are located in Luzon, the biggest island in the Philippines. Amo was very popular in the renowned Chinese-owned California Jams club in Olongapo City, which was frequented by United States military personnel.

 

In 1990, Pineda and other members of Amo formed another band called Intensity Five and once again entered the Yamaha World Band Explosion. Pineda won the Best Vocalist award and the band came in as first runner up.

 

Later in 1990, five of Amo's original members split from the band leader, Ulysis Ablang (Uly) and formed another band behind Pineda, "New Age". This occurred prior to the release of Amo's one-and-only album released in 1990 titled Ang Tunay na Amo ("The Real Master") on BMG records which spawned one popular radio hit called "Running Away". (The song was popularized again in 2006 by another Filipino artist Erik Santos, who won an American Idol type Filipino TV show, Star In A Million.) The remaining members of Amo went on to become "The Boss Band", while Pineda's band, New Age, played regularly at Fire and Rain in Makati City.

 

In 1991, during one of those performances, a talent agent spotted Pineda and New Age and asked them to move to Hong Kong to perform at a very popular entertainment restaurant called Grammy's. With New Age, Pineda performed six nights a week, Tuesday through Sunday, for several years thereafter. After a long-term serious relationship failed in 1994, Pineda suffered health problems, which almost destroyed his voice. He returned to the Philippines. After six months of recuperation, he was able to sing again. He returned to Hong Kong and resumed singing with his band. In 1998, the owner of Igor's, the premiere theme restaurant/nightclub in Hong Kong, asked New Age to perform there. Dressed in skeleton outfits, they called themselves "The Rolling Bones".

 

In 1999, Pineda caught the attention of Warner Bros. record label and flew back to the Philippines on his days off to record a solo album, the self-titled Arnel Pineda. Most of the album’s ten original songs were slow ballads, with only two upbeat numbers, one of which carries a Latin style. One of the songs, “Iiyak Ka Rin” (You Will Cry Too) became a karaoke favorite in Asia, while another song "Sayang" (Too Bad) became a radio favorite. Pineda wrote and arranged several songs. Pineda continued to perform with New Age while making his album and for several years thereafter. In 2001, Pineda sang one song with Filipino band, South Border’s album The Way We Do. The song is called “Looking Glass”. In 2002, Pineda's band changed their name to 9 mm and played at “The Edge” in Lai Kwai Fong, Hong Kong.

In 2004, three members of the New Age band reformed with a female singer sharing lead vocals with Pineda and called themselves “Most W@nted”. This band played 3-4 hour sets Monday through Saturday at The Cavern Club in Hong Kong. On their only day off, Sundays, the band often performed at Filipino community events.

 

In 2005, Arnel recorded the theme song of the short-lived Filipino radio show "Dayo". A band named The Visitors was briefly formed for promotion purposes of the "Dayo" soundtrack consisting of three members from Ijos/Yjoz, Amo, New Age and Most W@nted.

 

1. Happy Slip

Christine Gambito, better known by her screen name HappySlip, is an American Internet personality, actress, and comedian. She maintains one of the most-subscribed-to channels on YouTube, a popular video sharing website. On January 25, 2008, Gambito, who is of Filipino ancestry, was appointed ambassador for Philippine tourism by the Department of Tourism.

 

In March 2007, Gambito's video Mixed Nuts was nominated for the 2006 YouTube Video Awards for Best Comedy, resulting in the second place. In May of the same year, she became one of the first users accepted into YouTube's revenue sharing program.

 

Gambito's performances typically include comedy sketches in which she impersonates members of her family. She also sings and plays the piano and guitar. As Gambito has stated repeatedly in her videos, she is notably one of the very few top users acting, filming, editing and producing her shorts completely on her own.

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Wiki

She is one talented Filipina indeed.

Christine Gambito has become one of the most popular internet celebrity on YouTube. She is so popular, in fact, that she has been appointed by the Philippine government to be tourism ambassador for the Philippines Department of Tourism.

I first saw her videos when I was in college. A friend of mine asked me to check her out because she said her videos are awesome. When I finally saw her videos, I couldn't stop watching them.

Here are the top 10 most viewed ‘happy slip’ web videos.

 

Major Characters

 

The following characters are still portrayed today in Gambito's videos:

• Christine - Known as the main character in Gambito's videos seen to deal with her family's comedic traditions. Portrayed by Gambito.
• Dad - Christine's father who is commonly seen in Gambito's videos constantly eating pork rinds. "Disaster!" is his commonly known catch phrase. His head is not seen in any of Gambito's videos possibly to conceal Gambito's face and/or for easy recognition. Portrayed by Gambito.
• Mom - Christine's mother known for her traditional antics with her family. Portrayed by Gambito.
• Auntie Baby Cruz - Christine's aunt known in Gambito's videos for her comedic antics and, at times, snobby remarks. Portrayed by Gambito.
• Minnie Cruz - Auntie Baby's daughter and Christine's cousin who is constantly embarrassed by her mother. Portrayed by Gambito.
• Lola - Christine's grandmother known for her comedic confusion. Portrayed by Gambito herself.
• Teenie - A teenager known for her stereotypical acts meant to mock modern American teenagers. Portrayed by Gambito.

Minor Characters

 

The following characters are known for their role in affecting the HappySlip universe:

• Kevin - Minnie's boyfriend whom Minnie met online. Portrayed by Kevin Wu (KevJumba).
• Fred - Known for his love interest in Minnie. Also known for being an opponent to Kevin in a dance battle for Minnie's love. Gambito left the judging to viewers by holding a poll on her official website with Fred losing with 12% of votes.
• Christian - Minnie's cousin sent out by Auntie Baby to watch over Minnie as she attends college. Portrayed by ninjadrops.
• Sheila & Sally Smoot - Known for their roles in 'Plop & Shop!' imitating infomercial hosts. Both portrayed by Gambito.
• Claire & Audrey - Twin sisters known for their soap opera acts. The characters became inactive after both allegedly shot each other to death. Both were portrayed by Gambito.

10. Contagious

 

9. Chill Pill

 

8. Band-Aid

 

7. KevJumba vs. Fred G. Dance Battle

 

6. Happy Slip Jingle

 

5. Mac Beautiful

 

4. Boypren

 

3. 5 Happy Slip Facts

 

2. 7.7.7

 

1. Mixed Nuts

Sources: Videos from Happy Slip Productions

Additional information about the characters from Wiki