Malcolm Gladwell used the term in his book The Tipping Point ( Little Brown, 2000 ) to describe those who are intense gatherers of information and impressions, and so are often the first to pick up on new or nascent trends.

He then went on to lead a nascent startup, Silicon Spice in April 1998, which he redirected to build a VOIP Chip and later sold it to Broadcom in 2000.

Matthews, who was voted " Player of the Century " in 2000, played his entire career with Hawthorn and brought many of the Hawthorn disciplines to the Lions.

Since about year 2000, with the power of computers to crunch vast quantities of data, a new career has been invented.

In 2000, at the age of 35, Hagi had the best days of his career winning every possible trophy with Galatasaray.

On 31 March 2000, his cricket career finished with a 73-ball 79 against Pakistan in the final of Sharjah Cup 1999 / 2000.

His career achievements include winning the 2000 US Open men's doubles, the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men's singles, and back-to-back Tennis Masters Cup ( now called the ATP World Tour Finals ) titles ( 2001 and 2002 ).

However, this 1997 total is by far the highest in Martínez's career, as he has only completed more than 5 games in one other season ( 7, in 2000 ).

At the 1999 World Championships, she lost the title again, finishing third, but in 2000 she won the only title missing in her career with a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney.

In Snyder's first season as owner, the Redskins went 10 – 6, including a four-game winning streak early in the season, and made it to the playoffs for the first time in Norv Turner's career, and the first time for the Redskins since 1992 in the final game of the season, on January 2, 2000, against the Dolphins.

Jones has received numerous other awards throughout his career, including the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1966, an MTV Video Music Award in 1989 and two Brit Awards – winning Best British Male, in 2000, and Outstanding Contribution to Music, in 2003.

He has previously competed in the Atlantic Championship from 1996 to 2002, scoring a career best of 8th on the Milwaukee Mile in 2000.

The band has enjoyed commercial success with 23 UK Top 40 hits spanning their career and 14 million albums sold by 2000.

Throughout her career Binoche has intermittently appeared on stage, most notably in a 1998 London production of Luigi Pirandello's Naked and in a 2000 production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on Broadway for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.

Željko Ražnatović (, ), widely known as Arkan ( Аркан ; 17 April 1952 – 15 January 2000 ) was a Serbian career criminal and later a paramilitary leader who was notable for organizing and leading a paramilitary force in the Yugoslav Wars.

He won the first playoff victory of his career in Game 2 of the 2000 NLDS against Atlanta, but suffered two losses in the NL Championship Series, which the Cardinals lost to the Mets in five games.

Seemingly as a testament to his career in higher education, Barrett and his wife Barbara gave a $ 10 million endowment to Arizona State University in 2000, resulting in the institution naming their Honors College after the couple.

* March 2000 Dzien Szaka-L ' a becomes Platinum ; Liroy is awarded with Fryderyk ( Polish equivalent of Grammy Award ) for Dzien Szaka-L ' a as best Hap / llip-hop album in 1999. it's 4 ' 1 ' Fryderyk award in Liroy's career.

Dench's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997 ; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ; for Chocolat in 2000 ; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 ( with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman ); for Mrs Henderson Presents ( a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre ) in 2005 ; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

Olerud also earned all three of his career Gold Gloves while playing first base for Seattle in 2000, 2002 and 2003.

The WBC awarded De La Hoya their welterweight title, which he lost, along with the IBA title, to Shane Mosley ( 34 – 0 ) by a split decision on 17 June 2000, given De La Hoya the first sound defeat of his pro career.

Caroline Benn died of cancer on 22 November 2000, aged 74, after a prominent career as an educationalist.

* Eric Jackson-1, 000 point career scorer for the 2000 Chilhowee Indians High School basketball team, graduated from Chilhowee High School in 2000.

Peter Milligan, who began his career at 2000 AD, before working briefly for both Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics, contributed two titles ( one quarter of the initial line-up ; the same as Gaiman ) to the Vertigo launch.

Following her departure from Hole, Auf der Maur joined The Smashing Pumpkins in 2000 and later began a solo career.

In an unrelated incident, reported in 2000, a girl's Tinky Winky toy reportedly said " I got a gun.

Seven years after his nomination for Wag the Dog, Hoffman got a second opportunity to perform again with Robert De Niro, co-starring with Barbra Streisand and Ben Stiller in the 2004 comedy Meet the Fockers, a sequel to Meet the Parents ( 2000 ).

He got another Richard Dimbleby Award in 2000 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2002.

During the 2000 – 01 season, the 76ers got off to a hot start by winning their first ten games, and their record would eventually swell to 41 – 14.

In 2000, the Mercury finished 20 – 12, but got swept by the Los Angeles Sparks.

A fourth movie was announced in 2000, but it never got past the pre-production stage.

Switzerland got its first tilting train ever in its territory ( discounting the Cisalpino, which entered Switzerland in 1996 ) on May 28, 2000.

In a 2000 interview, Kenney Jones stated the reason Winston was fired from the band was because " He ( Winston ) got above his station and tried to compete with Steve Marriott.

Since October 2000, Fravia got in touch with Richard Stallman at a LinuxDay event in Milan to which they were invited by a common friend.

After another solid season in 2000, McGriff got off to a good start in 2001.

He got a 2nd place in 2000 which was also at Pebble Beach.

After the company went under during the dot-com bubble burst of 2000, her friend Catherine Schwartz got her hired at TechTV in 2001, and Webb became employed as the associate producer and web researcher for The Screen Savers.

' Steinem got married in 2000, stating that the symbols that feminists once “ rebelled against ” now are freely chosen, or society had changed .< ref > Frey, Jennifer Gender Equity: A Woman Needs a Man like a Fish Needs a Bicycle.

The tours were a great success in Quebec with Bolduc earning $ 2000 from her first tour, compared to $ 500 – $ 1000 annually she got from royalties.

He eventually became the leader of the MAS, through which he got involved in social protests like the gas conflict and the Cochabamba protests of 2000.

Wilson got his big break with the 2000 comedy action hit Shanghai Noon, starring opposite Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan.

* In the 2000 movie, Boiler Room, the main character, Seth, mentions that the brokers at his firm act like they " just got off the 6 train to Fulton Street.

After years of appearing in Judge Dredd stories, he later got his own series in the Judge Dredd Megazine and in 2000 AD.

After she got her degree at the national School of Music in 2000 she started studying drama, musical and theatre.

He had won his first 21 fights by the time he got his first chance at a boxing title, the reginal WBC Fecarbox belt, on May 5, 2000.

But Unity got a surprisingly high score in the elections, paving the way for Putin's election victory in spring 2000.

In the 2000 film Memento, Leonard Shelby finds himself in a hotel, unable to remember how he got there and says " It's just an anonymous room.

The Silicon Valley Bowl got off to a positive start as the 2000 game matched mid-major conference powers Air Force against Fresno State.

The district had been redrawn and renumbered the 2nd after redistricting, following the 2000 Census, in which Arizona got two additional seats, and was heavily Republican.

The exposure they got reflected in the sales of their sixth studio effort, Dupa blocuri, which was released in early 2000 by Cat Music.