Gina Trapani
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 Trapani at SXSWi, 2007 |
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| Born | September 19, 1975 (age 36)[1] Brooklyn, New York[2] |
| Residence | San Diego, California[3] |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Tech blogger, web developer, writer |
| Known for | Founder of Lifehacker |
| Website | |
| ginatrapani.org smarterware.org |
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Gina Marie Trapani (born September 19, 1975[1]) is an American tech blogger, web developer, and writer.
Trapani founded the Lifehacker blog in January 2005, and led it until January 2009. She co-hosts a netcast on the TWiT.tv network called This Week in Google with Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis. She also hosted twelve episodes of Work Smart, a weekly column, for Fast Company. Gina is currently leading development of a crowdsourcing platform (named ThinkUp)[4] at Expert Labs.
She has published three books and has also written for other publications including Harvard Business Online. Fast Company named her one of the Most Influential Women in Technology in 2009 and 2010,[5] and Wired magazine awarded her its prestigious Rave Award in 2006.[6]
Trapani was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.[2] She began her writing career in high school as a writer for New Youth Connections (now YCteen) a magazine written by and for New York City teens published by Youth Communication.[7] She resides in San Diego, California.[3]
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[edit] Books
- Trapani, Gina (December 18, 2006). Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day. Wiley. ISBN 0470050659.
- Trapani, Gina (March 17, 2008). Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better. Wiley. ISBN 0470238364.
- Trapani, Gina (March 15, 2010). The Complete Guide to Google Wave. 3ones, Inc.. ISBN 0982592604. http://completewaveguide.com.
- Trapani, Gina and Pash, Adam (June 28, 2011). Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better. Wiley. ISBN 1118018370.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "This Week in Tech," September 19, 2010
- ^ a b Glaser, Mark (February 25, 2009). "Productivity Guru Gina Trapani Balances Blogging, Coding, Community". PBS MediaShift. http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/02/productivity-guru-gina-trapani-balances-blogging-coding-community056.html.
- ^ a b Trapani, Gina. "Gina Trapani: Bio". GinaTrapani.org. http://ginatrapani.org/bio.html.
- ^ Dash, Anil (July 30, 2010). "ThinkTank is now ThinkUp". Expert Labs Blog. http://expertlabs.org/2010/07/thinkup-and-the-next-phase-of-expert-labs.html.
- ^ Wilkinson, Amy (March 29, 2010). "Gina Trapani, Project Director at Expert Labs". The Most Influential Women in Technology 2010. Fast Company. http://www.fastcompany.com/article/gina-trapani-expert-labs.
- ^ Lam, Brian (June 2006). "Real Simple: Gina Trapani". Wired. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/gina.html.
- ^ http://youthcomm.org/who_we_are/alumni/alumni_T-Z.html#T
[edit] Additional reading
- Stern, Allen (December 1, 2006). "Interview with Gina Trapani, Lifehacker Editor". CenterNetworks.com. http://www.centernetworks.com/interview-with-gina-trapani-lifehacker.
[edit] External links
- GinaTrapani.org
- Gina's blog
- Gina Trapani on Twitter
- www.twit.tv/twig -- This Week in Google web site
- Dan Benjamin's The Pipeline: Gina Trapani Interview
