Hi

I'm Gina Trapani. I build apps that try to change the world—or just make life easier.

I created ThinkUp, a social media insights engine, Todo.txt apps, a text-based task manager, and Narrow the Gapp, a data-driven web site about the gender pay gap. I host This Week in Google, a web show which covers the latest news about the cloud, mobile, social, and Google. Back in the day, I founded Lifehacker and authored four tech books. I blog at Smarterware and tweet at @ginatrapani.

I live in sunny San Diego, California, by way of Brooklyn, New York. Some nice strangers wrote a Wikipedia page about me.

Here's my formal, complete bio. You can send me an email, but be forewarned: most days I receive more messages than I can respond to. Thanks for understanding.

Currently

• Building
  • ThinkUp, a webapp for crowdsourcing insights on social networks
  • Todo.txt apps, desktop and mobile apps for managing a text-based task list
  • Narrow the Gapp, a data-driven web site about the gender wage gap
  • Better Firefox Extensions, including Better Gmail 2, one of Mozilla's Featured Add-ons
• Hosting
  • This Week in Google (TWiG), a weekly web show on Leo Laporte's TWiT network
• Writing
  • Smarterware, my personal blog
  • @ginatrapani on Twitter, one of The New York Times' "Nine to Follow Among Millions"
  • Lifehacker, Gawker Media's software and productivity blog, which I founded in January of 2005 and led until January of 2009, where I now contribute occasional posts

Recently

• May 2012
  • Wired.com's GeekDad blog includes me on a list of 100 Geeks You Should Be Following on Twitter.
  • Published an op-ed on CNN.com, In war for talent, 'brogrammers' will be losers.
  • Appeared on an episode of The Broad Experience, a new podcast on women in the workplace by Ashley Milne-Tyte.
• March 2012
  • Launched Narrow the Gapp, a U.S. Department of Labor data-based web site about the gender wage gap. See the press coverage.
  • 21times.org profiles me in a piece about ThinkUp and open source development and business models.
• February 2012
  • Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt interviewed me on an episode of Triangulation.
• January 2012
  • Released the iOS version of Todo.txt Touch for the iPhone, iPod touch, and the iPad. Buy it here.
  • CTO of the United States Aneesh Chopra thanked me for encouraging the White House to reject SOPA. Eight days after the White House's response, SOPA was withdrawn.
  • Engadget interviews me for their 25th issue of Distro.
• More...

The Show

Now hosting a weekly web show This Week in Google (TWiG) alongside tech guy Leo Laporte and professor of journalism Jeff Jarvis, which covers the latest Google and cloud computing news, stats, and tips. Watch live and chat with listeners as we record each episode via Skype on the TWiT Netcast Network at 1PM Pacific/4PM Eastern time every Wednesday. Otherwise, download or subscribe to new episodes, or watch on YouTube.

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The Book

Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better, third edition, is a compendium of all the best hacks from Lifehacker.com's archives, and my personal manifesto on working more efficiently in the digital age.

Check out the official web site of Lifehacker the book to browse the table of contents, download a sample chapter, and join the mailing list.

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Elsewhere

• Lanyrd: Conferences where I've spoken and attended
• GitHub: My current coding projects and activity
• Mozilla Add-ons contributions: Firefox extensions I've authored
• My Wikipedia entry
• My Wikipedia contributions

Thanks for your interest.