Lifehacker

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This article is about the lifehacker.com website. For information on life hacks in general, see Life hack.
Lifehacker
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Web address lifehacker.com
Slogan Tips and downloads to help you at work and play
Commercial? Yes
Type of site
 Blog
Registration Optional
Available in English, Japanese
Owner Gawker Media
Created by Gina Trapani
Editor Whitson Gordon
Launched 31 January 2005; 19 years ago (2005-01-31)
Alexa rank
 311 (April 2015)[1]

Lifehacker is a weblog about life hacks and software which launched on January 31, 2005. The site is owned by Gawker Media. The blog posts cover a wide range of topics including: Microsoft Windows, Mac, Linux programs, iOS and Android, as well as general life tips and tricks. The staff updates the site about 18 times each weekday, with reduced updates on weekends. The Lifehacker motto is "Tips and downloads for getting things done."[2]

In addition, Lifehacker has four international editions, Lifehacker Australia, Lifehacker Japan, Lifehacker India and the latest one - Lifehacker UK which feature most posts from the U.S. edition along with extra content specific to local readers.[3][4]

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.[5] Other former associate editors include Wendy Boswell, Rick Broida,[6] Jason Fitzpatrick, Kevin Purdy, and Jackson West.[7] Former contributing editors include The How-To Geek,[8] and Tamar Weinberg.[9]

Lifehacker's frequent guest posts have included articles by Joe Anderson, Eszter Hargittai, Matt Haughey, Meg Hourihan, Jeff Jarvis.[10][11][12][13][14]

On January 16, 2009, Trapani resigned as Lifehacker's lead editor and Adam Pash assumed the position.[15]

On January 7, 2013, Adam Pash moved on from Lifehacker to a new start-up, and Whitson Gordon became the new editor-in-chief.[16]

On January 1, 2016, Whitson Gordon parted ways with Lifehacker to another popular technology website, How-To Geek, as their editor-in-chief [17] replacing Lowell Heddings.[18] In his announcement, Gordon confirmed that Alan Henry will take over as the interim editor till the time Gawker finds a suitable replacement.

Podcast

Lifehacker staff ran the Ask Lifehacker podcast, which was discontinued in April 2014.

Staff

Writer Position
Alan Henry[19]
 Interim Editor
Eric Ravenscraft Senior Writer
Tessa Miller Contributions Editor
Shep McAllister Commerce Editor
Thorin Klosowski

Patrick Allan [20]

Writers
Melanie Pinola

Mihir Patkar[21]
Dave Greenbaum[22]
Mark Wilson [23]
Kristin Wong
Beth Skwarecki
Claire Lower
Vanessa Marin
Heather Yamada-Hosley

Contributing Writers
Tara Jacoby Art Director
Jim Cooke Deputy Art Director
Sam Woolley Staff Illustrator
Nick Criscuolo Contributing Designer
Gina Trapani Founding Editor

Advertising

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Lifehacker launched in January 2005 with an exclusive sponsorship by Sony. The highly publicized ad campaign was rumored to have cost $75,000 for three months.[24] Since then, a variety of tech-oriented advertisers have appeared on the site.[25]

Redesign

On February 7, 2011, Lifehacker revealed a redesigned site with a cleaner layout.[26]

Then, on April 15, 2013, Lifehacker redesigned their site again to match the other newly redesigned Gawker sites, like Kotaku.[27]

Accolades

  • In 2005, TIME named Lifehacker one of the "50 Coolest Web Sites"[28] in 2005, one of the "25 Sites We Can't Live Without"[29] in 2006 and one of the "25 Best Blogs 2009"[30]
  • CNET named Lifehacker in their "Blog 100" in October 2005.[31]
  • Wired presented Gina Trapani with a Rave Award in 2006 for Best Blog.[32]
  • In the 2007 Weblog Awards, Lifehacker was awarded Best Group Weblog.[33]
  • PC Magazine named Lifehacker in "Our Favorite 100 Blogs" in October 2007.[34]
  • US Mensa named Lifehacker as one of their top 50 sites in 2010.[35][when?]

References

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  2. ↑ Power Grid: Lifehacker Accessed: 6/17/2013
  3. ↑ Welcome toLifehacker UK (April 17, 2014). Retrieved on April 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ Lifehacker AU Goes Live (August 28, 2007). Retrieved on August 31, 2007.
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  20. ↑ http://patrickallan.kinja.com
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  22. ↑ http://davegreenbaum.kinja.com
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  35. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110430165830/http://www.us.mensa.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Top_50&Template=/customsource/top50_winners.cfm

Further reading

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External links

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