Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), and owned by Advance Publications. The company's media brands attract more than 72 million consumers in print, 394 million in digital and 454 million across social platforms. These include Vogue, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Glamour, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Pitchfork, WIRED, and Bon Appétit, among many others.
WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our lives — from culture to business, science to design. The breakthroughs and innovations that WIRED uncovers lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries.
From its beginning, the strongest influence on the magazine's editorial outlook came from founding editor and publisher Louis Rossetto. With founding creative director John Plunkett, Rossetto in 1991 assembled a 12-page prototype, nearly all of whose ideas were realized in the magazine's first several issues. In its earliest colophons, WIRED credited Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan as its "patron saint". WIRED went on to chronicle the evolution of digital technology and its impact on society.
As part of a co-branding partnership with Continental Airlines, WIRED published a blog starting on March 27, 2010, titled "Mile-High Innovation Tech for Travelers" (http://www.wired.com/cs/promo/blogs/continental). Shefik developed this blog as a Web Developer, where he incorporated technologies such as PHP and MySQL, utilizing the content management system WordPress. Continental Airlines was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1934 until 2012 when it merged with United Airlines. It had ownership interests and brand partnerships with several carriers.
The blog, written by Robert McGarvey, was well-received. McGarvey has covered technology and travel for over 20 years, for dozens of national magazines and newspapers, and he dates his first online experience back to 1987. He authored "How to Dotcom" in 2001, he wrote "The Techno Traveler" column for Biz Travel for several years, and he blogged for Internet Evolution and CIO Update.
In the virtual age, face-to-face meetings are more critical than ever. Business travel is on the rise, with ground breaking technologies enhancing — not eliminating — in-person communication. Readers joined McGarvey, as he traveled the United States to various technology conferences, from CITA to MobilWare, in search of the innovations poised to impact the business travel experience.
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- Web Developer: Shefik
Last Updated: October 16, 2023
