Few websites are built on existential philosophies. Sites are built with a purpose: to be seen, to draw interaction and to create relationships. Just as we could ask if a tree makes a sound when it falls alone in the forest, we could also question if a website truly exists if it has no page [...]

Anyone that owns an Apple iPhone, Google Android phone, or any modern smartphone is surely aware of the problems with viewing Flash content on the Web. While some mobile device manufacturers have tried to work with Adobe to create a mobile-friendly version of the browser plug-in required to view this content, a flawless cross-platform solution [...]

It appears that television executives are attempting to solve the problem that has plagued the music and publishing industries for years: with so much available free access to songs, articles and videos, how do you charge online audiences for professionally produced content? Last week, insiders close to Hulu, the free streaming video service, reported that [...]

In 2009, Ashton Kutcher set out to be the first in the twitterverse to obtain one million followers. These days it’s not uncommon for celebrities and popular brands to hit one million. In fact, many have soared beyond two, three, and even four million followers. Brands like Zappos, Southwest Airlines, and WholeFoods have all passed [...]

The most frustrating lectures I ever attended in college were about the future of media. A typical lecture on this topic began discussing past forms of media, moved slowly to how old business models have failed and ended by saying, “This is an exciting time for journalism. We don’t know what is going to happen [...]

Crowdsourcing is a term popularly used to describe the content-creating method of using customer submitted ideas to direct the creation of new products and/or services. There has always been a customer component directing new products, the concept is not new.

OK Go danced across the Internet in 2006 with the music video “Here It Goes Again”— a video the band filmed for about $5 and featured them doing a choreographed dance routine on treadmills. Millions of people shared it over the Internet, which launched the song into the Billboard 100 and earned the group a [...]

Chicago, Illinois. – James Meyers, President of Imagination Publishing, is recognized as a “C-Level Visionary” in FOLIO: magazine’s 2010 compilation of magazine industry influencers and innovators. In its annual “Folio: 40” feature, the leading publishing industry magazine recognizes distinguished media professionals from across the country. The feature notes Meyers’ accomplishment in “developing Imagination Publishing into [...]

To me, the word “tablet,” evokes the prehistoric age—it brings to mind images of grunting cavemen scrawling messages on stone slabs. However, on January 27th, Apple CEO Steve Jobs forever changed my association with the word when he unveiled the iPad, a tablet that is anything but rudimentary. There has obviously been a massive amount [...]

With the growth of “instant” communication technology there has become a preference in fast information instead of intelligent information. When I was young, I learned that imagination is very important and received praise from my parents and friends for drawing detailed pictures of comic book characters and mythical creatures in action sequences. Then, through grade [...]