Gina Marie Trapani is an American tech blogger, web developer, and writer.

Trapani founded the Lifehacker blog

Blog

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 in January 2005, and led it until January 2009. She co-hosts a netcast on the TWiT.tv network

TWiT.tv (network)

The TWiT Netcast Network, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network run by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of This Week in Tech. Security Now was the second podcast on the network, debuting in...

 called This Week in Google with Leo Laporte

Leo Laporte

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 and Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis

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. She also hosted twelve episodes of Work Smart, a weekly column, for Fast Company

Fast Company (magazine)

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. Gina is currently leading development of a crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing

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 platform (named ThinkUp) at Expert Labs

Expert Labs

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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, and Wired magazine awarded her its prestigious Rave Award in 2006.

Trapani was born and raised in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, New York

New York

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. 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. She resides in San Diego, California

California

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External links

• GinaTrapani.org
• Gina's blog
• Gina Trapani on Twitter
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• www.twit.tv/twig -- This Week in Google web site
• Dan Benjamin's The Pipeline: Gina Trapani Interview