Most Viewed TDmonthly Magazine Stories (Past 3 Months)
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Sport Technology Goes with the Flow Want to snowboard in the summer? Ten years ago the answer would have been, “Yes, but…” Now, the answer is the Flowboard...
Investing in Time In 2004 stay-at-home mom Maureen Farinella, a former district manager for Barnes & Noble's software division, realized timing her elementary school-aged children’s required reading was difficult, as one child was a voracious reader, and the other reluctant...
5/1/2008
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Strategic Space Runs the Race Mark Salzwedel, president and CEO of Strategic Space, Inc., reflects on the history of his game design and his first year publishing tabletop games...
5/1/2008
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Getting Kids to Talk, One Card at a Time Glad you’re not a kid in this hooked-in, constant-access, grow-up-now world? If you were, wouldn’t you need a little help wading through society’s ethical quagmires?...
5/1/2008
Most Viewed TDmonthly Magazine Stories (Past 12 Months)
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Kids Crooked House Heads Straight For Success The story behind Maine-based Kids Crooked House, winner of this year’s Yahoo! Ultimate Connection Contest, is part and parcel of the American dream...
8/1/2007
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Magnolia Floats Above the Competition President and Owner Qi Liu of Magnolia Trading Company revealed to TDmonthly Magazine that she did not have a background in toys before starting the business and importing Chinese toys...
ThinkFun Puzzles Set Brains on Fire When husband and wife Bill Richie and Andrea Barthello co-founded Binary Arts in 1985, they started with the premise that “having fun is a great way to learn"...
7/1/2008
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Rebuilt Griddly Games Sports Strategy and Fun Named after the world grid, Griddly Games makes sports-themed games that feature diverse, hand-painted characters. Reisa Schwartzman, now owner and president, took over the bankrupt company in December 2006 and, with Penny Osborn, director of operations, revamped the business...
7/1/2008
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U.S.-Made Buffalo Games Grow With Good Marketing Buffalo Games began in 1986 as a family business. When Mark Predko, now director of sales and marketing, joined Buffalo Games in 1994, there were only seven people running the company, he told TDmonthly Magazine...
Bananagrams Maintains Ap’peel Abe Nathanson and his family love word games. In 2006, Abe wanted a new game — an anagram game so fast it would drive them bananas...
6/1/2008
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Investing in Time In 2004 stay-at-home mom Maureen Farinella, a former district manager for Barnes & Noble's software division, realized timing her elementary school-aged children’s required reading was difficult, as one child was a voracious reader, and the other reluctant...
5/1/2008
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Sport Technology Goes with the Flow Want to snowboard in the summer? Ten years ago the answer would have been, “Yes, but…” Now, the answer is the Flowboard...
5/1/2008
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Getting Kids to Talk, One Card at a Time Glad you’re not a kid in this hooked-in, constant-access, grow-up-now world? If you were, wouldn’t you need a little help wading through society’s ethical quagmires?...
5/1/2008
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Strategic Space Runs the Race Mark Salzwedel, president and CEO of Strategic Space, Inc., reflects on the history of his game design and his first year publishing tabletop games...
5/1/2008
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Sand-Goh! Offers Better Way to Build Watching his children build sand castles with buckets and shovels during a 2006 vacation in Anguilla, real estate attorney Jerry Taufield figured there had to be a better way.....
3/1/2008
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NITON Has the Edge After the recall of millions of lead-contaminated toys last summer and fall — some of which had been purchased as far back as 2003 — parents are understandably concerned about toy safety...
2/1/2008
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ZEN™ Challenges Players’ Concentration Jerrett Metzger, founder of Silly Willy Toys, hopes ZEN, his fortuitous creation, becomes one of those celebrated stories about accidental inventions that made millions...
2/1/2008
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Animalations Makes Reading Sing It was a do-it-yourself approach that launched Animalations publishing house in fall 2005. When Author and Owner Patricia Derrick discovered that “book companies want you only if everyone does,” she made the decision to self-publish, she told TDmonthly Magazine...
1/1/2008
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Brass Ring: Bubbagum Turns Rotten Teeth to Gold Patrick Brittain likes people to smile and laugh. Four years ago, he invented ugly edible teeth that make a lot of people happy when they wear them...
12/1/2007
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Toy Buzz: Giddy Goose ‘n Gander Unleashes Inner Pirates Rough seas, pirate ships, swashbuckling adventure. Pirates are popular these days, and Giddy Goose ‘n Gander Games is right in the high seas battle with its two games, Piratack and Piratitan...
12/1/2007
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Selling “Time” Pays Off The first prototype for a Mark-My-Time digital bookmark came out of Maureen Farinella’s constant struggle to track her children’s required reading times, she told TDmonthly Magazine...
