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	arik.org
		The next day he wrote back shedding some light: “The name Arik is a variation of the name Aryeh, which is Hebrew for a lion.” The name also appears as Arieh, which is the name of an officer of king Pekahiah in the Old Testament.
		Arik Boke was youngest son of Genghis’ son Tolui, and a brother of the better-known Kublai Khan who was the founder of China’s Yuan Dynasty, which lasted from 1271 to 1368.
		Arik was a rival of Kublai’s, and had been the commander of the Mongol homeland while Kublai was campaigning in China.
	arik.org /2006_01_01_arikorg_archive.html (1266 words)

	Mirabilis Dictu
		The elder Vardi recalls that on every trip to America, he was under strict instructions from his son to bring back every volume that O'Reilly and Associates had published since his last visit.
		Vardi thought this was a great idea and put up $50,000 to get him started.
		Thus, Vardi says, ICQ and its Web site, famous for their Byzantine looks and rich load of features, are intentionally complex.
	www.thestandard.com /article/0,1902,8806,00.html?body_page=4 (762 words)

	ICQ
		The name ICQ is a play on the phrase "I seek you".
		ICQ was founded by Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir.
		ICQ allows the sending of text messages, URLs, multi-user chats, file transfers, greeting cards and more.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/i/ic/icq.html (331 words)

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		Vardi became a national folk hero in 1998 when America Online paid $407 million for his company, Mirabilis Ltd., the marketer of ICQ, an instant-messaging technology developed by a group of young software mavens that included his son.
		The average soiree at Vardi's sprawling Tel Aviv home today is likely to include the chairmen of two or three of Israel's largest conglomerates, the heads of its two largest banks and the occasional ex-prime minister, all mingling with a clutch of promising young entrepreneurs fresh out of the army or university.
		In contrast to Yossi Vardi, a man who moves laconically yet seems to fill up a room, the 32-year-old Gil Shwed is a blur of motion who might as well melt into the paneling.
	www.cji.co.il /cji-n122.txt (4981 words)

	Engology.com, Engineer Yossi Vardi, Venture Capitalist, Professional/Chartered Engineering, Women in Engineering, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Vardi is also the founding investor and the former chairman of Mirabilis Ltd, the creator of the extremely popular Internet communication program ICQ, which currently has over 75 million users and was acquired by AOL.
		In the past, Dr. Vardi also served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Bank of Israel, a member of the Board of Directors of the Development Corporation for Israel and of State of Israel Bonds.
		Vardi is married to Telma and has three sons, Arik, Oded and Danny.
	www.engology.com /eng5vardi.htm (579 words)

	Mirabilis (company) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mirabilis was founded in 1996 by the four Israelis Arik Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir, and was purchased by AOL less than two years later.
		Funding for Mirabilis came from Yossi Vardi, the father of founder Arik Vardi.
		He travelled frequently promoting Mirabilis and was known for publicly stating the company's revenue goal was zero.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mirabilis_%28company%29 (192 words)

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		Vardi is occasionally interrupted by his son, Arik, a high school dropout turned multimillionaire, who wanders into the office, barefoot, long locks flowing behind him.
		The company, founded by Arik and three friends, created the instant-messaging program ICQ (I Seek You), which lets people find each other on the Net and chat.
		Yossi Vardi has since become the go-to Internet guru in one of the world's hottest breeding grounds for New Economy success stories.
	www.cji.co.il /cji-n114.txt (684 words)

	COMUNIDADE JUDAICA
		Eis como Arik, Yair e Sefi, fizeram fortuna em menos de dois anos.
		Exatamente a mesma idade que Arik Vardi, da Mirabilis.
		Arik Vardi e os outros inventores do ICQ fizeram seus primeiros passos na Zapa, mas se separaram por razões financeiras, e depois disso Eyal e Arik não se falam mais.
	www.riototal.com.br /comunidade-judaica/juda0a6.htm (2414 words)

	*bpm . ezine . cyber : всяка втора секунда един човек се регистрира в icq
		Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser и Amnon Amir се запознали още като тийнеджъри в средите на израелското компютърно общество, а след това заедно отбили и тригодишната си военна служба.
		Sefi Vigiser : Да, това го измисли Yossi Vardi.
		Първият чек, подписан от Yossi Vardi за да помогне за създаването на ICQ : 0,000
	bpm.cult.bg /ezine/cyber/?id=135 (698 words)

	ism #23: killer apps vs. killer tomatoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Four technology-passionate young Israelis—Sefi Vigiser, Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi and Amnon Amir become frustrated because they can't find their friends online for chatting, so they develop their own solution.
		Arik gets his father to invest and a few months later, they come out with a simple, elegant solution—the Internet's first ‘Buddy' system.
		Users are so happy, they just keep telling others, " Vardi notes and this is a key to the making of killer apps.
	www.itseemstome.net /ism/archive/ism23.html (1071 words)

	Intrigue and Instant Messaging
		Arik Vardi, along with Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir called their company Mirabilis, and they released the first beta of their buddy list product in November of 1996.
		Yossi Vardi, the tough, charismatic Israeli investor and father of Mirabilis’ CEO, proved to be a force that even Microsoft couldn’t overcome.
		Vardi refused Microsoft’s overtures, which he considered insulting, and punctuated his decision by bringing the deal to the last company on Earth Bill Gates wanted to own ICQ.
	www.duttonfamily.org /Writing/Essays/IntrigueIM.htm (1744 words)

	ICQ - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In June 2004 ICQ celebrated its 300 millionthdownload from download.com where it remained the number 1 most popular download for 7 consecutive years.
		ICQ was founded by Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir and managed by Ariel Yarnitsky.
		ICQ allows the sending of text messages, URLs, multi-user chats, file transfers, greetingcards and more.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=ICQ (387 words)

	TheMarker.com
		Though the technology is attributed to the Israeli company's four founders - Arik Vardi, Amnon Amir, Yair Goldfinger, and Sefi Vigiser - the two patents belong to AOL.
		For that reason, it is likely that AOL will use the patents as a strategic weapon, at least at this stage," the source said.
		One of its first investors was Arik Vardi's father Yossi who began recruiting external investors including then-president of the Manufacturers Association Dan Propper and Arison Investments.
	www.themarker.com /eng/archive/arc_article.jhtml?ElementId=yd20021217_01e&origin=haaretz (598 words)

	Israel21c (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Goldfinger met up with Visiger, Vardi and a fourth founder Amnon Amir (who left Mirabilis in its second month to go to university), when they were all working at Tel Aviv software company Zapa Digital Arts.
		Initially Goldfinger had misgivings about the project but Yossi Vardi, the father of Arik and one of the founders of Israel Chemicals, was enthusiastic and decided to invest a few hundred thousand dollars to let the boys set up Mirabilis and develop the technology.
		About six months after they had started work Yossi Vardi came to them and pointed out that ICQ was turning into an Internet phenomenon.
	www.israel21c.org /bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Articles^l449&enZone=Profiles&enVersion=0& (2391 words)

	O'Reilly -- Books for a Younger Audience
		It's often younger developers who have key insights that turn old paradigms on their heads.
		ICQ preceded Napster as the first major service to break the client-server paradigm of the Web with a radically distributed architecture.
		(Admittedly, Arik was in his mid-twenties by the time he developed the ICQ protocol.)
	www.oreilly.com /pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/youngreaders_1201.html (3573 words)

	Wired News: Net Messaging Called 'Catastrophic'
		Mirabilis, the Israeli company that developed ICQ, states that the free system was not designed for "mission critical" or "content sensitive" communications.
		According to Wumpus, Mirabilis president Arik Vardi said at that time that he would fix the next version of ICQ to address the issue.
		Yossi Vardi of Mirabillis said the company was straightforward about the appropriate use of ICQ and added that all issues will be resolved in the next version of the client, due "in a couple of days."
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,12758,00.html (1168 words)

	ICQ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In June 2004 ICQ celebrated its 300 millionth download from download.com where it remained the most popular program for 7 consecutive years.
		ICQ was founded by five young Israelis: Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir and managed by Ariel Yarnitsky.
		ICQ allows the sending of text message with offline support, URLs, multi-user character-by-character chats, resumable file transfers, SMSes, greeting cards and more.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ICQ (766 words)

	History of Instant Messaging, internet radio station, internet movie database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Instant messaging was created in July of 1996 by 4 young Israeli avid-computer users.
		Yair Goldfinger (26,Chief Technology Officer), Arik Vardi (27,Chief Executive Officer), Sefi Vigiser (25,President), and Amnon Amir (24), started a company called Mirabilis in order to introduce a new way of communication over the Internet.
		These guys realized that millions of people were connecting to the Internet to use the World Wide Web, but these users were not interconnected.
	www.show-kit.com /download/samples/with/internet/html/slide6.html (337 words)

	Tech Talk : Who Invited IM? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It all started back in 1996 with four young Israeli men, two of whom didn't even finish high school: Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser, and Amnon Amir.
		After their army service Yair, Arik, Sefi and Amnon thought about a holiday trip to India but decided instead to take jobs at a local computer store.
		At night they worked on their dream project - ICQ, short for I Seek You - a program for instant, easy 'Net communication.
	www.jabcast.com /tech_talk/JabCast_TTalk_WhoIM.html (331 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Most of the deal will be in cash, while some of the payment will be made in AOL shares.
		Mirabilis’s founders, Sefi Vigiser (25), Yair Goldfinger (26), Arik Vardi (27), and Vardi’s father Yossi, have made a commitment to stay with the company for at least another four years, in exchange for which they will receive another $80 million, $20 million a piece, spread over the four year period.
		The large shareholders in Mirabilis are its three founders, Vigiser, Goldfinger, and Vardi, and Arik Vardi’s father Yossi, each of whom holds 21% of the company.
	www.post-trib.com /bbs/boards/internet/messages/11 (2513 words)

	Jerusalem Post : In Brief @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		DAVOS - Arik Vardi, 28, founder of Mirabilis, was chosen yesterday as one the 1999 Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT) on the occasion of the 29th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
		Vardi, the son of high-tech entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, is one of the three people who developed the popular online chat technology ICQ (I seek you), which was sold last year to America Online for $287 million.
		He is also the youngest of those receiving the award.
	static.highbeam.com /j/jerusalempost/february021999/inbrief/index.html (182 words)

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		An attacker can then use that account to obtain information from people contacting you, or to do other inappropriate things which would result in the account being terminated.
		I have given Mirabilis fair warning of this attack, and talked with Arik about what was necessary to fix it.
		Actualy, we don't publish the protocol since it's a work in progress and we still have pretty major changes from version to version.
	mydata4u.4t.com /123/icqhijaak_c.htm (1206 words)

	List of Israelis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		There have also been up to 7 Israeli winners of the Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science: Shlomo Moran (93), Yoram Moses (97), Moshe Vardi (00), Uriel Feige?
		Arik Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser & Amnon Amir - founders of Mirabilis (ICQ developers)
		Arik Zeevi - judoka (european champion: 2003, 2004)
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_israelis (626 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of Israelis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Chaim Topol (born September 9, 1935 in Tel Aviv, Israel), often billed simply as Topol, is one of the most famous Israeli actors.
		Deep Junior is a computer chess program authored by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky.
		Beny Alagem (born 1953) was a former Israeli tank driver and the founder of Packard Bell Electronics, a leading American computer manufacturer during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Israelis (7814 words)

	Films - Directed and Produced by Haim Callev - Credits
		After he falls in action as a soldier, it is discovered that he used to donate in secret large amounts of money - which he earned as a computer programmer - to a group of scouts in a poverty stricken area.
		(30 minutes) Graduation process of Arik, falsely accused of steeling money and unjustly persecuted.
		He admits a theft that he never committed as an experiment to cope with a challenging situation and to embarrass his accusers who know the truth.
	www.tau.ac.il /~haim/filmcrdt.htm (1010 words)

	Forbes.com: Sefi Visiger: ICQ's low-key creator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Yet, surprisingly, little seems to have changed for Visiger and his fellow twenty-something partners, Yair Goldfinger and Arik Vardi.
		While Goldfinger perfects the database and Vardi writes code, Visiger designs ICQ's whimsical interface.
		It was he who conceived the ICQ icon, a daisy that morphs to designate whether you're available to chat online, busy or even invisible to certain individuals, earning the software praise for its unique "flower power." And with that, Visiger may have left his mark on the Net for good.
	www.forbes.com /1999/08/19/feat2.html (802 words)

	Untitled Document
		In the Summer of 1996 Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, and Sefi Visiger were on a mission.
		They locked themselves away in a room for three weeks to invent an Internet business based on some product that they themselves would want to use.
		Yair, Vardi and Visiger borrowed $100 000 from Arik’s father and built version 1.0 in less than three months.
	www.int.gu.edu.au /~vjones/mm1/new/Group21/history.html (441 words)

	06/15/98 INSTANT MESSAGING: BIG SUCCESS, LITTLE PAYOFF
		But the prize for AOL is clear: In the race to capture bigger audiences, Mirabilis' 6 million users are a potential gold mine.
		''We're trying to aggregate as many eyeballs as possible,'' says Yossi Vardi, Mirabilis' chairman and financial backer, who founded the company with son Arik Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, and two others.
		With scarcely a trace of irony, Vardi insists ''creating revenue is a big distraction.'' But ultimately, instant messaging will have to deliver profits, not just promise.
	www.businessweek.com /@@bAhyOGUQ5Vz2HwYA/1998/24/b3582137.htm (655 words)

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		Four young Israelies: Yair Goldfinger Arik Vardi Sefi Vigiser Amnon Amir When was it invented, and how old were the inventors?
		1996 Yair Goldfinger (26) Arik Vardi (27) Sefi Vigiser (25) Amnon Amir (24) Similarly, who invented Napster?
		Shawn Fanning When was it invented, and how old were the inventors?
	s.students.umkc.edu /svpdh8/OpenProb_1_26/openprob_joshua.doc (110 words)

	Duchs.com » Google Instant Messaging in planning? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		If you look at instant messaging from a historical perspective, the desktop revolution was started by a small team of four youg Israeli computer users in July 1996 who created Mirabilis.
		Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir envisioned something revolutionary that will be hard to top by a ‘bloated’ company with 2.000 employees, such as Google.
		But hey, I won’t burn bridges here - Maybe it is just me who thinks that the Instant Messenging Market will be a bloody battle for the search engine giant.
	www.duchs.com /wp/2004/09/google-instant-messenger-in-planning (573 words)

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		Mirabilis was founded in July 1996 when four young Israeli avid-computer users established a new Internet company.
		Yair Goldfinger (26,Chief Technology Officer), Arik Vardi (27,Chief Executive Officer), Sefi Vigiser (25,President), and Amnon Amir (24, currently studying), created the company in order to introduce a new way of communication over the Internet.
		They observed the fast deployment of the World Wide Web which was propelled by the mounting popularity of surfing and browsing, and watched the growing number of people interacting with web servers.
	www.beepworld.de /members63/gabrielv/icq.htm (905 words)

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