Gina Trapani 
ThinkUp co-founder, Host of This Week in Google and All About Android, Todo.txt creator, founding/former editor of Lifehacker
Occupation: ThinkUp co-founder
Location: San Diego
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2013-06-19 03:22:52 (16 comments, 53 reshares, 137 +1s)
Can't stop singing this, such an earworm. Enjoy :-)
2013-06-18 18:26:41 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 22 +1s)
Very enjoyable breakdown of Mad Men's last episode's style choices, right after a thorough and well-argued take on Bob Benson's sexuality (and gay men of that era in general).
Damn I love this show.
2013-06-18 17:09:14 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 60 +1s)
Great momentum on the +Todo.txt project lately. Below a new release for Android (with background sync and custom font sizes), and here's our brand new project blog:
http://blog.todotxt.com/
2013-06-14 21:49:51 (11 comments, 12 reshares, 76 +1s)
Give $1 to the nonprofit project 'Help Women Survivors of War Earn Incomes' and I will match your donation. https://onetoday.google.com/project?match=Vy-myfft
2013-06-05 17:58:06 (42 comments, 20 reshares, 154 +1s)
Date pickers are one of the must difficult UI elements to get right - they're almost always unnecessarily fiddly. The new ones in Android's GCal app look pretty nice, though that 24-hour clock looks weird - "is it a barometer?" - at first glance.
2013-06-05 17:36:46 (9 comments, 23 reshares, 115 +1s)
Filing away Wookiee Cookies for when we introduce my daughter to Star Wars.
2013-06-04 18:02:58 (217 comments, 292 reshares, 921 +1s)
If only the US government took care of its babies and mothers this way...
2013-06-04 17:13:13 (15 comments, 4 reshares, 77 +1s)
New release of Todo.txt for Android is available: now with modernized widget (scrollable and resizable on Android 4.0+) and multi-task entry. Check it out.
2013-05-31 16:53:14 (35 comments, 104 reshares, 251 +1s)
I love that there's a Wikipedia page for this ("ATM machine and PIN number"):
RAS syndrome (short for "redundant acronym syndrome syndrome"), also known as PNS syndrome ("PIN number syndrome syndrome", which expands to "personal identification number number syndrome syndrome") or RAP phrases ("redundant acronym phrase phrases"), refers to the use of one or more of the words that make up an acronym or initialism in conjunction with the abbreviated form, thus in effect repeating one or more words.
2013-05-31 02:05:43 (97 comments, 412 reshares, 1007 +1s)
Fascinating. I got schooled by this slow motion gif of how a dog drinks water. Good night everyone!
2013-05-30 17:23:16 (41 comments, 17 reshares, 121 +1s)
So, the "HTC One with Nexus Experience" will have "Beats Audio." But what about all the pixel-magic photo stuff?
2013-05-28 16:59:23 (16 comments, 26 reshares, 111 +1s)
Launch day! The Sweethome is open
I've been semi-quietly gathering data, products, and research on things like cutting boards, enameled Dutch ovens, and, uh, toilet paper for a few months now. This is why: a sibling site to The Wirecutter, The Sweethome, out in public today.
The goal is the same as with the Wirecutter: a list of the best recommendations on things you can buy, without the noise and link-bait of the blog format. When new things come along or products are updated, it updates, but no more than that. Hope it helps you out!
(I've already ordered a clothes iron and ice cube tray during the early-access period)
2013-05-18 18:34:52 (48 comments, 160 reshares, 650 +1s)
This is indeed the best (and funniest) reaction to Google Glass yet. If you think +Ron Richards needs his own pair, re-share and let +Project Glass know. He gets my vote.
#io13 #GlassExplorers
2013-05-10 22:41:07 (27 comments, 61 reshares, 243 +1s)
Pretty much every one of my daughter's meals starts off with a face like these
2013-05-03 19:07:57 (38 comments, 64 reshares, 207 +1s)
10x more likely to do something kind for someone today after watching that video
2013-05-02 21:11:09 (9 comments, 3 reshares, 61 +1s)
What happens when your open-source baby gets forked
Some episodes of In Beta are mostly just me asking questions of someone who makes things people actually use. Such was the case with #47, in which I kinda-sorta prod +Gina Trapani into digging into her feelings about having her +Todo.txt app forked into an entirely different (and Google-Play-posted) app. Fun stuff.
2013-05-01 16:55:34 (32 comments, 6 reshares, 164 +1s)
Great shot #throughglass by +Lance Ulanoff of +Mashable from the Today Show set! #GlassExplorers
2013-04-30 22:23:17 (78 comments, 56 reshares, 240 +1s)
Sooo... Samsung's trying to corner the market on cheesy musical launch events?
UNCENSORED:Ranveer Singh's New Gangnam Style!
2013-04-30 17:23:28 (14 comments, 7 reshares, 62 +1s)
New release of Todo.txt for Android now in the Play Store!
Changes include:
Select multiple tasks and perform batch actions - Re-prioritize, delete, or mark multiple items complete or not complete by selecting them and using the new contextual action bar buttons
Quick Filter contexts or projects - Filter your todo.txt by contexts or projects with one tap from the action bar
Also:
* Modernized and Holofied the Add/Update Task screen
* Increased minimum API level to 7 (2.0 Eclair) for Action Bar Sherlock
* Updated Dropbox to 1.5.4
Check it out and let us know what you think.
2013-04-28 02:35:25 (9 comments, 30 reshares, 140 +1s)
Released an update to my Google Music Chrome extension. Added a mini-player mode and fixed bugs. Install from the Chrome web store and let me know if you run into any problems/have any feature suggestions!
2013-04-24 20:03:03 (39 comments, 61 reshares, 312 +1s)
I just got my Google Glass last night, and it's been a long time since a tech gadget has had me grinning ear to ear so often. I was at the #tech4dem event, and let +Marci Harris and +Macon Phillips try on my Glass. Both of them quickly got the same big grin!
It's not at all what people expect! It's a magical experience. I haven't yet been quite able to put my finger on why it feels that way, but I think it's the immediacy. Rather than fumbling for your phone, then opening the camera app, you can take a picture or a video with a touch, and share it with another touch. You can also talk to the device, taking pictures, doing google searches, getting directions, or sending emails or texts, without ever touching the devices. (You can wake it up with a touch or by tossing your head slightly.)
A couple of comments:
1. People have this notion that it&#... more »
2013-04-12 19:57:58 (110 comments, 11 reshares, 276 +1s)
Both amused and scared of Jeff and Leo disagreeing about the Pixel. I still say: Google I/O Sumo Suit throwdown!
This Week in Google 193: Pixel Pusher (Screenshot at about 6:40)
2013-04-12 19:35:04 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 39 +1s)
In Beta #44 is all about Facebook Home
Why does the press take the automatic tack of "How bad is this for Google, and how can they crush this?" How much do most journalists, even tech-savvy types, know about how Android really works? And isn't Facebook Home a better interface ("launcher") than exists on many cheap or just badly carrier-hobbled phones?
2013-04-12 19:33:30 (5 comments, 17 reshares, 52 +1s)
See any GitHub repository's commit log in a Star Wars scroller. So enjoyed watching +ThinkUp's: http://starlogs.net/#ginatrapani/ThinkUp
2013-04-05 01:59:54 (22 comments, 20 reshares, 99 +1s)
A few weeks ago at SXSW in Austin, TX, I gave developers a sneak peek at the Google Mirror API, which is what they'll use to build services for Glass. With the presentation, we set out to help developers and entrepreneurs start imagining what they could do on Glass.
The Mirror API is a cloud platform that uses OAuth 2.0 and REST as an architecture for delivering a new class of experiences to people using Glass. We walked through the basic building blocks of the API: timeline cards, menu options, share contacts, and subscriptions. We then demonstrated some early uses of the Mirror API on Glass that were built by Evernote, The New York Times, Path, and our own Gmail team.
Developing for this type of device is a little different because you’re wearing it and it’s a very intimate experience. So we also gave would-be Glass developers some recommended guidelines:
Des... more »
2013-04-04 23:18:04 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 50 +1s)
In Beta #43: Stickers, Pebbles, Google Glass, and Gina's good social media guidelines
This episode is the upside-down postage stamp of In Betas. Why? Because there's a fun defect in which I accidentally try to close down the show before we're actually done. And it made it through editing!
Oh, also, we talk about managing expectations, vis-a-vis the Pebble watch and its customer support, and how Google Glass has managed expectations (not so well!), and then social media behavior and how to reward the best of it (and how +Gina Trapani might track it with algomarithms).
Also: a link for you to get an In Beta sticker. Enjoy!
2013-04-03 19:34:16 (12 comments, 3 reshares, 88 +1s)
Improved search autocomplete predictions
If you've searched your email for "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" or other lengthy phrases, it just got easier to find what you're looking for. Autocomplete predictions in Gmail may now include your past Gmail searches.
Past searches as well as the new contact thumbnails shown below are rolling out to all Gmail users globally, including Google Apps for Business customers, over the next few days.
2013-04-01 20:36:51 (8 comments, 9 reshares, 90 +1s)
We're excited to share a huge new milestone for ThinkUp. Our latest beta features a rich social search that works a lot like Facebook's Graph Search, but for all your information -- your Google+ posts, Twitter friends, Foursquare checkins, Facebook status updates and more! Plus, if you're not a geek, you can now sign up to get on our waiting list and be the first in line for access to the new ThinkUp.com service.
2013-03-26 02:54:37 (50 comments, 16 reshares, 142 +1s)
So inspired by this piece on Pussy Riot. These ladies are heroines.
2013-03-21 14:29:58 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 43 +1s)
In Beta #41: When should developers hack around limitations?
I was intrigued by two different moves by Facebook recently, both seeming to try and escape the rules and limitations of Android. +Gina Trapani, however, actually talked me into some weird kind of AGREEMENT WITH SOMETHING FACEBOOK DID. It was strange.
Also: Google Reader. Because nobody has talked enough about Google Reader lately ;)
2013-03-21 04:19:21 (17 comments, 11 reshares, 192 +1s)
I looked up. And saw Spring.
#takenthroughglass
2013-03-21 04:16:49 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 36 +1s)
Hey, Android UI designers, we're working on "Holo-fying" +Todo.txt and right now we're working on the Add/Update Task screen. The screenshot included in the GitHub comment link below is what we have right now, but it doesn't sit right with me, for reasons outlined there.
Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions/mockups? This is an open source project built by volunteers so we appreciate your input!
2013-03-15 18:05:06 (83 comments, 32 reshares, 165 +1s)
Sexism in the Samsung Galaxy S4 Event
I care deeply about women in technology, so my tech sexism radar is pretty sensitive. I'm also a big fan of Broadway theater.
I hear where +Molly Wood is coming from here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57574466-256/samsung-gs4-launch-tone-deaf-and-shockingly-sexist/
But the presentation offended me less because it was sexist, and more because it tried so hard to be an entertaining SHOW and failed so utterly. I can't tell you how many times I cringed hearing Will Chase's "jokes" fall flat. (I used to really like that guy. But first SMASH, now this.)
To me, the event read like a poor attempt at old-timey theatrics (which, granted, come with a subtle element of sexism)--not a booth babe situation.
You can imagine the meeting that happened at Samsung when they decided to do this, ... more »
2013-03-12 17:22:19 (19 comments, 22 reshares, 204 +1s)
Google Now is behind an eponymous flag in chrome://flags in the last Chromium build (download-chromium.appspot.com).
Sadly, we still can't play with it yet because the Google Now server URL still remains secret.
If you know it though, all you have to do is set
localStorage['server_url'] = 'http://example.com'; in the background page.
Source: http://codereview.chromium.org/12508004/
2013-03-12 07:30:40 (23 comments, 12 reshares, 95 +1s)
Bounce? Flip? Jus' refresh!
It was last year when I was in conflict with myself about Pull-to-refresh and Android, so I wrote what I thought here: https://plus.google.com/110456813491619030792/posts/MV9h2CJYPDs
At the time I wished Google+ had a feature to let us embed images right in the body of the posts, so it was kind of hard to illustrate in just words. I get words like why didn't you make Carbon's refresh gesture more like Facebook or Twitter apps on Android. So...
Here's why, Android = Solid & Dimensional system, while iOS is elastic and while is skeuomorphic & natural looking, it's very 2D in interaction and its physics are 2D unlike Android that is dimensional yet flat, did I lose you there?
While Google apps such as Chrome, G+, and Gmail all adhere to that on iOS, on Android they speak their own language, no ... more »
2013-03-11 02:46:58 (107 comments, 192 reshares, 707 +1s)
For those of you who file away email expense receipts in a Gmail label all year long, this extension comes in handy around tax time when you want a PDF/hard copy.
2013-03-10 06:55:45 (3 comments, 15 reshares, 58 +1s)
Wish I could've seen +Danilo Campos and +Adria Richards rock this in person!
2013-03-10 00:28:38 (56 comments, 4 reshares, 219 +1s)
First package tracking card I've gotten in Google Now. Nicely done.
2013-03-09 22:05:33 (21 comments, 2 reshares, 37 +1s)
Data liberation lovers, something we're wrestling with for +ThinkUp:
Can an app's architecture prevent it from becoming a silo?
2013-03-10 00:35:17 (35 comments, 1 reshares, 36 +1s)
Finally subscribed to HBO in no small part for HBO Go. Was sure it was available on Google TV, but the app isn't compatible with my Revue.
Why is HBO Go a no-go on my Revue? :(
Update: Yup, the webapp works fine, but I still wish it was a native app.
2013-03-08 23:44:26 (58 comments, 109 reshares, 485 +1s)
Had no idea about this GitHub resume app. (Replace my username with yours in the URL.)
2013-03-07 03:16:52 (17 comments, 4 reshares, 59 +1s)
New episode of In Beta in which I got to rant about all the Mayer backlash re: Yahoo's new work-from-home policy.
Seriously, how many people are going to bring up "the hypocrisy" of her in-office nursery when CEOs at her level leading troubled companies fly private jets and do all sorts of things to make their work lives more expedient every day?
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