About

GadgetSpin is a joint venture of four influential women, tech bloggers from TechieDiva, Techmamas, Ubergizmo and Ponzarelli. We love gadgets and geek lingo! Our goal is to help crack the code behind these cool devices and help you with practical use of the trendiest of high tech toys. Look for us at Tech conferences like BlogHer, CES and SXSW we’ll be livestreaming our experiences and invite you to join us.  Check out our interviews of the “influentials” - high profile geeks and trend setters who rule the current shifts in paradigm change of our technical world. Tech toys, people, conversation and real world application - that’s what GadgetSpin is all about.

gina-iconGina Hughes is the founder of Techie Diva, one of the top technology blogs for women launched in 2005. Her blogs have been a source of inspiration and a guide for many women still struggling with everyday technology in the real world. Her practical advice, love for style, and down-to-earth approach have turned her into a reliable source of technology information for media outlets including the Today Show, People Magazine, Family Circle, Blueprint, and Women’s World Magazine, just to name a few. Gina has been a Yahoo! Tech advisor, a Marine, Web Designer, Video Producer, and Social Media Consultant who now  lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

beth-iconBeth Blecherman started her career in application development and system auditing for Syntex (now Roche) she then became Senior Manager, Computer Process Integrity, for Deloitte. After senior management she decided to take on family management and started blogging as her career 2.0.  She founded TechMamas.com, a tech blog with a parenting slant, as a platform to discuss technology and gadgets for families. She is contacted to participate in technical blogger outreach programs to add the mom perspective and is active in twitter as TechMama She regularly has spoken at BlogHer, SXSW and Web 2.0 on parenting, social media and technology. Her recent session at SXSW titled “Moms Who Tech” was written up in the Wall Street Journal and BBC. Her articles on technology and parenting have been published in Real Simple.com and Scholastic.com.

eliane-iconEliane Fiolet is the co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo.com where she writes about web applications, design and usability. In her parallel life, she owns a Corporate ID design business that helps companies create great brands. Launched in September 2004, Ubergizmo has quickly become one of the top consumer electronics blogs in the US and in the world (distributed in 6 languages and read in 212 countries). Among other things, the site is a Webby Award Honoree, has been ranked as a Top100 Blog by PC Magazine, and is media partner with DEMO and Web 2.0. Prior to opening her own agency, Eliane worked for a top design firm, Minale Tattersfield Design Strategy, where she created identities for Fortune 500 companies. She also worked in the video game industry as a designer for an award-winning adventure game. Eliane holds a master degree in visual communication and design from the “Art Decoratifs” college.

ponzi-iconPonzi Pirillo is a multimedia maven with a ten-year history of working on the internet and a penchant for connecting with the revolutionaries. Her career started back in 1999 with Ditech.com. A love of people, innovation and numbers led her to join the start up, and her hunch was right on the money. Ditech turned out to be the first in the mortgage banking industry to put borrowers in control. A leader in the digital space (the name comes from their use of direct technology), Ditech streamlined the mortgage financing process and made Bankers available 24/7 with the click of a mouse. She stayed on with Ditech through their sale to GMAC Mortgage and learned much from her business contemporaries in the ways of securitization, timing of investment and sale. In 2004 she partnered with Chris Pirillo: a pioneer in blogging and a serial entrepreneur with a “Ph.D.” in branding and self-promotion. This lead to her venture into the online world of blogging, podcasting, videoblogging, sponsorship, advertising and conference production. She started her blog www.ponzarelli.com the same year and is still humbled that people visit to read what she’s up to. Ponzi has worked with several Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Google and Yahoo! on influential blogger outreach through advertising campaigns, sponsorship opportunities and face to face meetings. She has spoken on her various experiences at conferences such as SXSW, Northern Voice, Blogher, Mindcamp and the Blog Business Summit. She is always looking for new adventures and the next revolutionary project to join in. Reach her at ponzipirillo@gmail.com or twitter.com/ponzarelli. When you can’t find her online it’s probably because she’s exploring, “playing” with friends, SCUBA diving or motorcycling. She says it’s a toss up as to what she loves more - her online life or her physical one!