Bite Sized Candy

Open up Archie ComicLab, create a comic of at least four pages and submit it to ARCHIE@BITESIZEDCANDY.COM. All entries will be viewed by the actual creators of Archie, and one Grand Prize winner will be selected to have their comic published and printed into a real-life Archie Magazine. Click here for the official rules.

All submissions must be received by December 31, 2011.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER WILL RECEIVE
Their comic printed in an upcoming Archie Magazine. Grand Prize winner will also receive three one year subscriptions to “three” different Archie comic book titles

2ND PLACE WINNER WILL RECEIVE
One year subscriptions to “two” different Archie titles.

3RD PLACE WINNER WILL RECEIVE
A one year subscription to “one” Archie title.

Send an email to: info@bitesizedcandy.com with “Beta Tester” in the subject line and tell us why you’d be a great beta tester!

In a world of ever evolving options for social diversion and information gathering, it has become increasingly difficult to attract individual attention spans to the written word. Recent research by Ketchum Public Relations revealed that only 18% of U.S. consumers have consulted magazines as a source of information in the last month, down from 23% in 2006. Meanwhile, consumers’ interest and embrace of mobile computer technology is skyrocketing, with Google reporting in a December 2010 study that consumer interest in tablet PCs has grown by 1,328% over the last year and Nielsen predicting that by Christmas 2011, 1 in 2 people in the United States will own a smartphone.

With all this interest and consumption in the portable technology market, media content providers are poised for a tremendous opportunity to reach out to new digital consumers and regain a following of mature consumers making the transition to the electronic age. However, this will only happen if providers are aware of what to do to attract those consumers.

You are what this new economy is all about – you have the ability to change the face of an industry. And with the internet at your disposal, you can sit and dream… Or you can stand up and make your dream a reality!

You have great ideas, you know how to do it, but haven’t taken the leap of faith. Why not?

- Is this really a good idea?

- Is it good timing?

- Are you cut out for this?

All of these are questions that role around in a first time entrepreneur’s mind. If you are passionate about your idea, join our wonderful keynote speaker Dr. Imran Sayeed, professor at MIT in Entrepreneurship and top under-30 entrepreneurs in the Boston area and let us help you determine if your idea is the next big thing.

On the heels of tomorrow’s much anticipated iPad 2 release, David Pogue of the New York Times looks back on the pummeling the original iPad received from critics before its release last year. At the time, both the media and the public alike expressed reserve and bafflement at the practical purpose of and need for a product they saw as a superfluous toy for techno geeks with deep pockets. After all, since owning a smartphone and a laptop was standard for anyone who claimed or aspired to be a modern professional, what on earth could be the use for a portable device that fused the functions of both these machines?