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Gina Trapani is Editor of Lifehacker.com, which is one of the leading blogs on the Web, attracting up to 60,000 unique visitors per day and 2 million page views per month (and growing). The Wall Street Journal called Lifehacker “geek chic,” TIME magazine listed Lifehacker one of its 50 Coolest Web sites of 2005 and Forbes named Lifehacker in its “Best of the Web.” The blog search engine Technorati.com lists Lifehacker in its top 20 most popular blogs with over 13,000 inbound links throughout the blogosphere.

Gina is also a freelance web developer, technology writer and speaker based in San Diego, California. In addition to writing Lifehacker every weekday and managing two associate editors, she’s been published in Popular Science and Laptop Magazine. Her experience includes developing web apps at Kinja.com, Bolt.com and NetAid.org. Recently she spoke to employees at Yahoo! Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California about life hacking. She has also presented at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

A Sun Microsystems-certified Java programmer and active PHP and Firefox extension developer, she earned her masters degree in Computer Information Science from the City University of New York, and a bachelor’s in English/Writing at Marist College.