Meg Hourihan is the cofounder of Pyra Labs

Pyra Labs

Pyra Labs is the company that coined the word Blog, creating the service Blogger.The co-founders were Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, and the company's first product, also named 'Pyra', was a web application which would combine a project manager, contact manager, and to-do list...

, the company that launched the Blogger personal blogging software that was acquired by Google

Google

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. She published weblogs at Megnut.com and meg.hourihan.com. She co-founded Kinja

Kinja

Kinja is a free online news aggregator in beta form, launched in April 2004.-History:With the intention of making web logs more accessible to the public, Nick Denton of Gawker Media and Meg Hourihan of Pyra Labs created Kinja, which began as an investigation into the navigation of web logs...

 along with Nick Denton

Nick Denton

Nick Denton, born August 24, 1966, is a British journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com...

 of Gawker Media

Gawker Media

Gawker Media is an American online media company and blog network, founded and owned by Nick Denton based in New York City. It is considered to be one of the most visible and successful blog-oriented media companies. , it is the parent company for 11 different weblogs: Gawker.com, Fleshbot,...

.

She is the co-author of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6), and a frequent speaker at technical conferences concerning online journalism and the role of women in technology. In 2003, she was named to the MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 Technology Review

Technology Review

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 TR100

TR35

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 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. PC Magazine

PC Magazine

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 named Evan Williams

Evan Williams (blogger)

Evan Williams is an American entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies. Two of the internet's top ten websites have been created by Evan Williams' companies: Blogger, weblog-authoring software of Pyra Labs, and Twitter, where he was previously CEO.-Early life and education:Williams...

, Paul Bausch, and Hourihan — the Blogger team — as People of the Year in 2004.

She was a member of the RSS Advisory Board

RSS Advisory board

The RSS Advisory Board is a group founded in July 2003 that publishes the RSS 0.9, RSS 0.91 and RSS 2.0 specifications and helps developers create RSS applications....

 from 2006 to 2007.

Hourihan married fellow blogger Jason Kottke

Jason Kottke

Jason Kottke is an American blogger and former web designer currently living in New York City. He designed the Silkscreen typeface and has won a Lifetime Achievement Award as a blogger...

on March 25, 2006. Their son, Ollie, was born on July 3, 2007. Their daughter, Minna, was born September 21, 2009.

External links

• meg.hourihan.com, her personal blog (last posting, June 2006)
• Megnut.com, her food blog
• Interview on Memory Lane