This week was one of transition. I went from a traditional office environment to working remotely from several locations: home office, shared executive suites, co-working spaces, business social clubs, hotels with wide-open lounges, and yes, Starbucks.
Eric with his 98-year old mother
Eric with his wife Gail
Eric with us.
One day about five years ago, I received an email from Eric Schneider, no relationship to my father’s family. For the first 22 years of my life I was Lois Schneider. Eric and I met in 1966 at Fairchild Publications where we both were copyboy/copygirl, aka messengers. Continue reading
Sixty years ago I was rewarded big time for giving $1 to the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. I was sitting cross-legged in front of our black-and-white TV set when I heard Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin announce that Lois Schneider from Hollis, Queens donated a dollar to help discover a cure. I was so shocked and exhilarated by that announcement that the feeling has lasted with me for years.
National Geographic was awarded for its efforts in digital media by the 2013 National Magazine Awards.
Natural Geographic won the tablet category because it offers smooth navigation, immersive interactivity, and social media integration.
Nat Geo has has a global paid digital circulation of 330,000, more than any other magazine, according to the Association for Audited Media.
I am helping Zedge, the most popular worldwide apps for mobile ringtones, wallpaper, and games, raise money for good causes. I need you to help me so I can help them. Continue reading
Many of our readers wonder who are the young geniuses behind some of the biggest Internet sites and mobile applications that have been developed in the last few years. Continue reading
If you have a teenager in your life, you’ll want to be up on Snapchat, an extremely popular photo messaging app. But it’s not a copycat of Instagram or any other photo app. With Snapchat, the photos you share with your friends and family will disappear after a set time of your determination, but no longer than 10 seconds. After that the content is deleted from the recipient’s device and from the company’s servers. The whole idea is not to let others own or manipulate or share your material.
You could just flash your pretty punim for 2 seconds, and poof! It’s gone!
Good news for all you TV junkies. Netflix just announced its upcoming original series “Orange is the New Black,” which will start on Thursday, July 11, 2013. Continue reading
I must say that LeapFrog has a great reputation when it comes to educational devices targeted at your grandchildren. That, however, doesn’t stop me from wondering about which products are useful and which ones are superfluous. I’m interested in what you might have to think.
I just read a blog post from a writer who admitted that he dismissed two early ideas from young inventors. The inventions turned out to be Pinterest and Vine. Pinterest is a very successful content sharing service that allows members to “pin” images, videos, and other objects to their pinboard. It also includes standard social networking features. Vine is a mobile app that enables its users to create and post short video clips.
The same thing happened to me. One day a few decades ago, Eliot called me from work when I was home sick saying two Japanese men stopped by the office to show us two games they were bringing to the U.S. market. I said, “Get rid of them.” I wasn’t feeling well and not getting out of bed to see some dumb games. That turned out to be Nintendo.
What’s the moral of the story? Take a second look.
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