Internet Hero Award for Computer Applications Graduate

Aodhan Cullen, founder of StatCounter

Aodhan Cullen, founder of the free web-traffic measurement service, StatCounter, was chosen as 2008 Internet Hero by a panel of judges at the Eircom Golden Spiders internet awards. Cullen, chief executive of web analysis firm, is now 25 yet started the company when he was 16.

Aodhan went on to develop it as his final year project while completing his degree in Computer Applications (CA) in DCU. StatCounter now tracks over three million websites and 10 billion pageloads a month.

“DCU’s Computer Applications degree gave me a great grounding in computers that allowed me to develop StatCounter to its full potential” Aodhan commented, “Studying Computer Applications was a great benefit to the business. Without that knowledge I wouldn’t have been able to bring it to what it was.”

For full story see here and for an interview with Aodhan see here.