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Meg Hourihan is the co-founder of Pyra Labs , the company that launched the Blogger personal blogging software that was acquired by Google .
Career
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Hourihan graduated from Tufts University 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 Blogger . In 2001 she left the company following a mass walk-out due to economic difficulties.[1]
She continued publishing weblogs at Megnut.com and meg.hourihan.com .[2] Kinja along with Nick Denton of Gawker Media .
She is the co-author of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6 ), and a frequent[3] MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[4] PC Magazine named Evan Williams , Paul Bausch, and Hourihan—the Blogger team—as People of the Year
She was a member of the RSS Advisory Board from 2006 to 2007.[5]
Personal life
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Hourihan married fellow blogger Jason Kottke on March 25, 2006, and they have a son and daughter.[6]
References
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^ San Francisco Chronicle (2008-05-11). "In parenthood, sometimes a blog is born" . The San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved 2008-12-01 .
^ Bausch, Paul; Haughey, Matthew; Hourihan, Meg (2002-08-15). We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs ISBN 978-0-7645-4962-5
^ "2003 Young Innovators Under 35" . Technology Review . 2003. Retrieved August 15, 2011 .
^ "RSS Advisory Board Members" . Rss Board . Retrieved 2020-02-03 .
^ Mead, Rebecca (June 5, 2006). "Meg and Jason" . The New Yorker .
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