Brief

Gina Trapani is an app developer and creator of ThinkUp and Todo.txt. She hosts two technology podcasts, This Week in Google and In Beta. She is the founding (and former) editor of Lifehacker. 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. Currently located in San Diego, CA, Gina created and leads development on ThinkUp, an open source social media insights engine the White House uses. She created Todo.txt, text-based to-do list apps, and Narrow the Gapp, a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data-driven web site about the gender pay gap. 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, which is now in its third edition.

Her writing has appeared in The Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Wired, CNN.com, PC World, Fast Company, Maximum PC, and Macworld magazines. Profiles of Gina's work have appeared in venues ranging from The Wall Street Journal to The New York Times. 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.