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. She continued publishing
weblogs at Megnut.com until November 2013 and meg.hourihan.com until June 2006. She co-founded
Kinja along with
Nick Denton of
Gawker Media. 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.
PC Magazine named
Evan Williams, Paul Bausch, and Hourihan — the Blogger team — as People of the Year in 2004. She was a member of the
RSS Advisory Board from 2006 to 2007. ==Personal life==