Meg Hourihan is the co-founder of Pyra Labs, the company that launched the

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personal blogging software that was acquired by

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Career

Hourihan graduated from

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in 1994. In 1999, she and Evan Williams co-founded Pyra Labs. The company's first product, also named "Pyra", was a web application which would combine a project manager, contact manager, and to-do list. In 1999, while still in beta, the rudiments of Pyra were repurposed into an in-house tool which became

. In 2001 she left the company following a mass walk-out due to economic difficulties. She continued publishing

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s a
Megnut.com
until November 2013 an
meg.hourihan.com
until June 2006 She co-founded Kinja along with Nick Denton of

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. She is the co-author of ''We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs'' (), 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 Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. ''

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'' named Evan Williams, Paul Bausch, and Hourihan—the Blogger team—a
''People of the Year''
in 2004. She was a member of the RSS Advisory Board from 2006 to 2007.

Personal life

Hourihan married fellow blogger Jason Kottke on March 25, 2006, and they have a son and daughter. The couple separated in 2017.

References

External links

Megnut.com

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