Brief

Gina Trapani is the creator of ThinkUp and Todo.txt apps, co-host of This Week in Google, founding editor of Lifehacker, and author of four technology books. She lives in sunny San Diego, California, by way of Brooklyn, New York.

Expanded

Gina Trapani is the award-winning author, blogger, and programmer whose work translates cutting-edge technology into insights that boost personal productivity. Gina was the founding editor of Lifehacker, the seminal productivity blog which garnered nominations for Blog of the Decade and yielded the best-selling book, Lifehacker. Currently located in San Diego, CA, Gina is a project director at Expert Labs leading development on ThinkUp, an open source crowdsourcing platform the White House uses.

Through her work co-hosting This Week in Google, creating browser extensions that customize Google's web applications, and writing The Complete Guide to Google Wave, she's become the foremost independent voice on the technology efforts of web titan Google. Her writing has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Wired, PC World, Fast Company, Maximum PC, and Macworld magazines. Profiles of her work have appeared in venues ranging from The Wall Street Journal to The New York Times. A popular and in-demand public speaker, Gina has given feature presentations and keynote speeches at first-tier events like the Web 2.0 Expo. Fast Company named her one of the Most Influential Women in Technology in 2009 and 2010, and Wired magazine awarded her its prestigious Rave Award in 2006.

Gina also detests talking about herself and thanks the good friend who wrote this bio.