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Gizmodo is a popular technology weblog about consumer electronics
Consumer electronics

Consumer electronics include electronic equipment intended for everyday use. Consumer electronics are most often used in entertainment, communications and office productivity....
. It is part of the Gawker Media
Gawker Media

Gawker Media is an online Mass media company founded and owned by Nick Denton based in New York City. It is considered to be one of the most visible and successful blog-oriented media companies....
 network run by Nick Denton
Nick Denton

Nick Denton is a United Kingdom journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com....
.

The blog, launched in 2002, was originally edited by Peter Rojas, but he was recruited by Weblogs, Inc.
Weblogs, Inc.

Weblogs, Inc. is a network of around 90 blog, covering a variety of subjects, from computers and gaming to the likes of food and independent film....
 to launch their similar technology blog Engadget
Engadget

Engadget is a popular, award-winning multilingual technology blog and podcast about consumer electronics. Engadget currently has four different websites, all operating simultaneously with each having its own staff, which cover technology news in different parts of the world in their respective languages....
. By mid-2004, Gizmodo and Gawker together were bringing in revenue of $6,000 per month.

In 2005, VNU and Gawker Media formed an alliance to republish Gizmodo across Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, with VNU translating the content into French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
, German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
, Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 and Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
, and adding local European-interest material.

In April 2007, Allure Media launched , under license from Gawker Media and incorporating additional Australian content.

In November 2007, the Dutch magazine license was taken over by HUB Uitgevers
HUB Uitgevers

HUB Uitgevers is a Netherlands-based magazine publisher, which publishes a number of information technology magazines. HUB Uitgever was founded in 1993 and has grown to be one of the leading IT publishers, with over 20 consumer titles, and a number of business-to-business magazines....
.

A Gizmodo blogger captured the first photos from the floor of CES 2007, and according to Reuters
Reuters

Reuters Group Limited is a United_Kingdom-based, Canadian controlled news agency and former financial market data provider that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters....
, journalists at the (simultaneous) Macworld
Macworld

Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California....
 debated whether Gizmodo or Engadget had the better live coverage of Steve Jobs's 2007 keynote..

Apple, Inc.'s Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs is an United States businessman and co-founder, Chairman, and Chief executive officer of Apple Inc.. Jobs is the former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios....
 noted that Gizmodo was his favorite gadget blog, further fueling a long-standing feud between Gizmodo and Engadget.






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Gizmodo is a popular technology weblog about consumer electronics
Consumer electronics

Consumer electronics include electronic equipment intended for everyday use. Consumer electronics are most often used in entertainment, communications and office productivity....
. It is part of the Gawker Media
Gawker Media

Gawker Media is an online Mass media company founded and owned by Nick Denton based in New York City. It is considered to be one of the most visible and successful blog-oriented media companies....
 network run by Nick Denton
Nick Denton

Nick Denton is a United Kingdom journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com....
.

The blog, launched in 2002, was originally edited by Peter Rojas, but he was recruited by Weblogs, Inc.
Weblogs, Inc.

Weblogs, Inc. is a network of around 90 blog, covering a variety of subjects, from computers and gaming to the likes of food and independent film....
 to launch their similar technology blog Engadget
Engadget

Engadget is a popular, award-winning multilingual technology blog and podcast about consumer electronics. Engadget currently has four different websites, all operating simultaneously with each having its own staff, which cover technology news in different parts of the world in their respective languages....
. By mid-2004, Gizmodo and Gawker together were bringing in revenue of $6,000 per month.

In 2005, VNU and Gawker Media formed an alliance to republish Gizmodo across Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, with VNU translating the content into French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
, German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
, Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 and Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
, and adding local European-interest material.

In April 2007, Allure Media launched , under license from Gawker Media and incorporating additional Australian content.

In November 2007, the Dutch magazine license was taken over by HUB Uitgevers
HUB Uitgevers

HUB Uitgevers is a Netherlands-based magazine publisher, which publishes a number of information technology magazines. HUB Uitgever was founded in 1993 and has grown to be one of the leading IT publishers, with over 20 consumer titles, and a number of business-to-business magazines....
.

A Gizmodo blogger captured the first photos from the floor of CES 2007, and according to Reuters
Reuters

Reuters Group Limited is a United_Kingdom-based, Canadian controlled news agency and former financial market data provider that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters....
, journalists at the (simultaneous) Macworld
Macworld

Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California....
 debated whether Gizmodo or Engadget had the better live coverage of Steve Jobs's 2007 keynote..

Apple, Inc.'s Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs is an United States businessman and co-founder, Chairman, and Chief executive officer of Apple Inc.. Jobs is the former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios....
 noted that Gizmodo was his favorite gadget blog, further fueling a long-standing feud between Gizmodo and Engadget.

A videographer for Gawker Media, Gizmodo's publisher, disrupted several presentations held at CES 2008 by secretly turning off flatscreen TVs using TV-B-Gone
TV-B-Gone

TV-B-Gone is a type of simple universal remote control device for turning off television sets, developed and sold by Mitch Altman. The device was designed to be able to turn off a large majority of the current available brands of television sets....
 remotes. This resulted in the videographer, Richard Blakeley
Richard Blakeley

Richard Blakeley is an American video editor and producer based in New York City....
, being barred from CES 2008, and any future CES events.

In September 2008, was launched with Portuguese content.

The current main editor of Gizmodo is Brian Lam.

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