Newstex Blog

Last month, the SIIA CODiE awards were the culmination of work by a lot of people behind the scenes as well as at the forefront of the competing companies and brands.

Our good friend Debby Richman over at Collarity wrote a nice blog post on SearchEngineWatch.com about our new Twitter aggregated newsfeed - "Newstwits"

Once again, I"ve been drafted to help put together a new SIIA Previews event, this time in London at the Global Information Industry Summit ("GIS").

The New York Times on Saturday, May 31 reported that the Phoenix Mars Lander has been "equipped" with Twitter and has been sending Tweets back to earth. Read NY Times article.

In a recent YouGovsurvey, respondents showed lack of understanding and consensus aboutthe laws regarding blogging and User Generated Content (UGC). It's interesting reading as over 77% of the bloggers surveyed are unclear on the legal liability issues.

Barry Graubart spends his day Tweeting all day long on Twitter and now he wants us all to LiveTwit at the SIIA NetGain Conference. Have no idea what I'm talking about? Read On...........

Each presenter tried very hard to not do to much of a product demo but make general statements. I would have preferred detailed product pitches to really learn more about what each product does. I was left wondering how the products worked and what their business models are.

I'll be attending the 9th annual Buying & Selling eContent at the beautiful Camelback Inn, in Scottsdale, Arizona from Monday April 14 - 15, 2008.

Day 1 of the BSEC 9th annual conference has kicked off at the Camel Back Inn in Scottsdale, AZ. Temperature today is expected to hit 98!

We just learned that Chuck Neul, who blogs as "The Reasoned Sceptic" has been asked to appear on Bill O'Reilly's - The O'Reilly Factor tonight (Monday, April 14, 2008) at 8pm ET on the Fox network.

The deadline for new company submissions for the SIIA Previews - West has been extended until April 7, 2008.

Silicon Alley Insider reports that another SIIA Previews Class of 2007 company has completed a raise. Congratulations to Pando!

