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Lifehacker
''Lifehacker'' is a weblog about life hacks and software that launched on 31 January 2005. The site was originally launched by Gawker Media and is owned by Ziff Davis. The blog posts cover a wide range of topics including Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Linux programs, iOS, and Android, as well as general life tips and tricks. The website is known for its fast-paced release schedule from its inception, with content being published every half hour all day long. ''Lifehacker'' has international editions: ''Lifehacker Australia'' ( owned by Pedestrian), ''Lifehacker Japan'', and ''Lifehacker UK'', which feature most posts from the U.S. edition along with extra content specific to local readers. ''Lifehacker UK'' folded on 9 September 2020 when its British publisher decided not to renew its license. History Gina Trapani founded ''Lifehacker'' and was the site's sole blogger until September 2005, when two associate editors joined her, Erica Sadun and D. Keith Robinson. Other fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gawker Media
Gawker Media LLC (formerly Blogwire, Inc. and Gawker Media, Inc.) was an American internet media company and Link farm#Blog network, blog network. It was founded by Nick Denton in October 2003 as Blogwire, and was based in New York City. Incorporated in the Cayman Islands, as of 2012, Gawker Media was the Holding company, parent company for seven different weblogs and many subsites under them: ''Gawker, Gawker.com'', ''Deadspin'', ''Lifehacker'', ''Gizmodo'', ''Kotaku'', ''Jalopnik'', and ''Jezebel (website), Jezebel''. All Gawker articles are licensed on a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. In 2004, the company renamed from Blogwire, Inc. to Gawker Media, Inc., and to Gawker Media LLC shortly after. On June 10, 2016, the company filed for Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after damages of $140 million were awarded against the company as a result of the Hulk Hogan Bollea v. Gawker, sex tape lawsuit. On August 16, 2016, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Kirsch
Melissa Kirsch (born 1974) is an American author who writes predominantly about media, politics, and women's issues. Her most recent book, ''The Girl’s Guide'', provides advice to women on topics ranging from financial issues to dating. Currently, Kirsch lives in New York City, blogs for the ''Huffington Post'', and writes the "My Secret Library" column for the KGB Bar Lit. Kirsch is from Westport, Connecticut and attended Staples High School. As of 2017, Kirsch is the editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. She is the host of the podcast The Upgrade. Early life and education Kirsch completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia in 1996."Spring 2007 Arts: New&Notable: ''The Girl’s Guide to Absolutely Everything'': Melissa Kirsch (Col ’96) Workman Publishing Co." ''University of Virginia Magazine'' Spring 2007. Found aUVA Magazine website Accessed June 22, 2010. She then completed a Master's in Creative Writing at New York University. Career Kirsch's profession ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Trapani
Gina Marie Trapani (born September 19, 1975) is an American tech blogger, web developer, writer, and technology executive. Early life and education Trapani was born and raised in an Italian Catholic family in Brooklyn, New York. Trapani graduated from Marist College and earned an MS in Computer Science at Brooklyn College. Career 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. Trapani founded the Lifehacker blog in January 2005, resigning in January 2009. She later joined Expert Labs where she led development of ThinkUp, an open-source social media aggregation and analysis tool, which was shuttered in 2016. In 2017 she joined Postlight as Director of Engineering, and is now CEO. Trapani has also been featured on yourBlogstory, a popular Bloggers featuring network. Trapani has published three books and has also written for other publica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G/O Media
G/O Media Inc. is an American media holding company that owns and operates the digital media outlets '' Kotaku'' and '' The Root''. It was formed in 2019 after the private equity firm Great Hill Partners purchased two digital portfolios from Univision: Gizmodo Media Group (''Gizmodo'', Jezebel, '' Deadspin'', '' Lifehacker'', Splinter, ''The Root'', ''Kotaku'', and Jalopnik) and the Onion portfolio ('' The Onion'', ClickHole, '' The A.V. Club'', and ''The Takeout''). , the company has sold off many of its outlets, including ''The Onion'' and ''Gizmodo'', which were the source of "the G and O of its name". History G/O was formed in April 2019 when Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm, purchased the websites from Univision for $18.9 million. Prior to the sale, the former Gawker Media properties had operated as Gizmodo Media Group after being acquired by Univision following the conclusion of the '' Bollea v. Gawker'' lawsuit and subsequent bankruptcy in 2016. Former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis, Inc. is an American digital media and internet company. Founded in 1927 by William Bernard Ziff Sr. and Bernard George Davis, the company primarily owns technology- and health-oriented media websites, online shopping-related services, internet connectivity services, gaming and entertainment brands, and cybersecurity and martech (marketing technology) tools. Previously, the company was predominantly a publisher of hobbyist magazines. History The company was founded by William B. Ziff Company publisher Bill Ziff Sr. with Bernard Davis. Upon Bill Ziff's death in 1953, William B. Ziff Jr., his son, returned from Germany to lead the company. In 1958, Bernard Davis sold Ziff Jr. his share of Ziff Davis to found Davis Publications, Inc.; Ziff Davis continued to use the Davis surname as Ziff-Davis. Throughout most of Ziff Davis' history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, advertiser-rich technical hobbies such as cars, photograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Android (operating System)
Android is an operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen-based mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computer, tablets. Android has historically been developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance, but its most widely used version is primarily developed by Google. First released in 2008, Android is the world's Usage share of operating systems, most widely used operating system; the latest version, released on June 10, 2025, is Android 16. At its core, the operating system is known as the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and is free and open-source software (FOSS) primarily licensed under the Apache License. However, most devices run the proprietary software, proprietary Android version developed by Google, which ships with additional proprietary closed-source software pre-installed, most notably Google Mobile Services (GMS), which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedestrian (company)
Pedestrian, formerly PEDESTRIAN.TV, is a youth digital news and entertainment website based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2005. It is a subsidiary of Nine Entertainment Pedestrian Group owns Pedestrian (the website) as well the Australian brands Pedestrian JOBS and Openair Cinemas. History Launched in 2005 by co-founders Chris Wirasinha and Oscar Martin, Pedestrian.TV was initially distributed as a DVD magazine, stylised as a "Plastizine", with the advertorial backing of BMW Mini. In 2007, the company shifted online, launching the Pedestrian.TV site. In 2010, the company launched sub-site Pedestrian JOBS; a creative industries-focused employment classifieds board. Nine Entertainment subsequently acquired a 60% stake in Pedestrian.TV in 2015 for a reported $10 million. Nine bought out Wirasinha and Martin's remaining 40% ownership share in 2018 for an additional $39 million, putting the company's total valuation just shy of $100 million. In 2017 Pedestrian.TV broke t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Hack
A life hack (or life hacking) is any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life. The term was primarily used by computer experts who suffer from information overload or those with a playful curiosity in the ways they can accelerate their workflow in ways other than programming. History The original definition of the term "hack" is "to cut with rough or heavy blows". In the modern vernacular it has often been used to describe an inelegant but effective solution to a specific computing problem, such as quick-and-dirty shell scripts and other command line utilities that filtered, munged and processed data streams like e-mail and RSS feeds. The term was later extended to ''life hack,'' in reference to a solution to a problem unrelated to computers that might occur in a programmer's everyday life. Examples of these types of life hacks might include utilities to synchronize files, track tasks, remind oneself of events, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotaku
''Kotaku'' is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network. Notable former contributors to the site include Luke Smith, Cecilia D'Anastasio, Tim Rogers, and Jason Schreier. History ''Kotaku'' was first launched in October 2004 with Matthew Gallant as its lead writer, with an intended target audience of young men. About a month later, Brian Crecente was brought in to try to save the failing site. Since then, the site has launched several country-specific sites for Australia, Japan, Brazil and the UK. Crecente was named one of the 20 most influential people in the video game industry over the past 20 years by ''GamePro'' in 2009 and one of gaming's Top 50 journalists by Edge in 2006. The site has made CNET's "Blog 100" list and was ranked 50th on ''PC Magazine''s "Top 100 Classic Web Sites" list. Its name comes from the Japanese '' otaku'' (obsessive fan) and the prefix "ko-" (small in size). In 2009, ''Business I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Univision Communications
TelevisaUnivision (formerly known as Univision Communications) is a Mexican-American mass media, media company headquartered in Miami and Mexico City that owns American Spanish language broadcast network Univision and free-to-air channels in Mexico such as Las Estrellas, Canal 5 (Mexican TV channel), Canal 5, Foro (TV channel), Foro, and Nueve (Mexican TV network), NU9VE alongside a collection of Specialty channel, specialty television channels and production studios. 45% of the company is held by the Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company Televisa, Grupo Televisa, which was a major programming partner for Univision until the company sold their content assets to Univision in 2022. Since its founding in the early 1960s as Spanish International Network (SIN), the United States' first Spanish language television network, the company has catered to Hispanic and Latino Americans. It is currently a multimedia conglomerate, with free-to-air and specialty, digital and audio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PC Magazine
''PC Magazine'' (shortened as ''PCMag'') is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009. Publication of online editions started in late 1994 and continues . Overview ''PC Magazine'' provides reviews and previews of the latest hardware and software for the information technology professional. Other regular departments include columns by long-time editor-in-chief Michael J. Miller ("Forward Thinking"), Bill Machrone, and Jim Louderback, as well as: * "First Looks" (a collection of reviews of newly released products) * "Pipeline" (a collection of short articles and snippets on computer-industry developments) * "Solutions" (which includes various how-to articles) * "User-to-User" (a section in which the magazine's experts answer user-submitted questions) * "After Hours" (a section about various computer entertainment products; the designation "After Hours" is a legacy of the magazine's traditional orientation to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
