Content licensing as a quality signal for smarter AI

While many of you spent December closing out your year and preparing for the holidays, The SIIA Previews Steering Committee, of which I am Chairman for the second year, spent time listening to pitches and presentations for companies wishing to present at the 2008 SIIA Previews.

WebProNews talked with Co-Founder and President of Newstex, Larry Schwartz at the BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2007 in Las Vegas. Schwartz discusses how to syndicate your blog for profit.

The Newstex Blogs On Demand Team is at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas the week of November 8.

Today at 4pm EST/1 pm PST Sun Microsystems will upset the entire Reg FD Press Release ecosystem.

Newstex is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the Blog Business Summit '07 in Chicago from Monday, September 17 - Wednesday, September 19, 2007. Please join us at the conference and receive $100 discount off any attendance package.

The past few months our Blog Acquisition Team (BAT) has been busy editorially licensing full text global financial blogs to add to our Blogs On Demandâ„¢ product.

Congratualtions to Aura and Thomas Novembre on the birth of their second daughter -Stella Arisa Novembre, on Thursday, May 24, 2007.

Are you a blogger? Or do you get most of your news from blogs? Do you read hundreds of blogs each day?

Wow - What a night at the 2007 SIIA Codie Awards in San Francisco. Newstex was a finalist for two awards and won both!

This week we are in dry San Francisco (as opposed to the soggy wet east coast) for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Content Forum which also includes the Codie Award presentation.

We are very excited to announce our alliance with EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO),the world’s premier database aggregator, to deliver Newstex Content On Demand™ and Newstex Blogs On Demand™ via nearly 100 EBSCO databases to customers worldwide.

Very Nice Interview/Case Study by Marketing Sherpa where they interview Jonathan Hoy, Strategic Alliance Manager for LexisNexis and a customer of Newstex's Blogs On Demand product.

Newstex Announces Addition of Intraday Updates from Investor’s Business Daily® Through Content On Demand™At the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Information Industry Summit which opened in New York today

We are very excited to add b5media to the Newstex Blogs On Demand product. The b5media network adds 164 full text business blogs delivering current news and commentary on a wide variety of topics.

Today we added 59 business blogs to our Blogs on Demand product from Know More Media. We have been very impressed with the Know More Media business model and their rapidly growing portfolio of business blogs.

The Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announced that Larry Schwartz, President of Newstex, is serving as the Chairman of the SIIA Previews, the all-new Information Industry Summit prequel event, on Monday, January 29

Update! Fred Wilson, a Partner at Union Square Ventures, has agreed to be the keynote speaker at the SIIA Previews, on Monday, January 29, 2007 in New York City.

We are very excited to announce an alliance to deliver Newstex Content On Demand and Newstex Blogs On Demand through FPinformart, CanWest MediaWorks' industry leading news and business information service in Canada.

The Software Information Industry Association (SIIA), [Newstex is a SIIA member and our President Larry Schwartz, is a Content Division Board Member], is pleased to announce an all-new event preceding the SIIA Information Industry Summit called, SIIA Previews, on Monday, January 29, 2007 in New York City.

Newstex today was named to EContent 100 List of Companies That Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry. (Read the press release)

By now you should have recieved you copy of InformationToday newspaper and read about the 2006 People's Choice Awards on the cover.

We are pleased to welcome Rick Smith to the Newstex team as Director of Client Services. Rick joins Michael Airhart, as the Director of Publisher Services.

We are very excited about the recent announcement from ECNext that MANTA now includes news from Newstex.

The 2006 SIIA Summit Conference is set for January 30 -31, 2007 in New York. Many SIIA members have spent Thursday mornings this summer on conference calls planning the conference.

We would like to welcome the NH Insider as another member of Newstex's Blogs On Demand full text blog newsfeed product.

From July 28-29, I will be attending the BlogHer conference in San Jose. For any bloggers planning on going who would like to learn more about Newstex and our licensing opportunity, please contact me here so we can set up some time to meet during the conference.

Local, Local, Local. Our customers have been telling us for the past months that they want more local news. When we met with Paul and Keith from SmallTownPapers, Inc. we became very excited, they are solving the "last mile" of local cotent.

Come join us May 15 - 16, 2006, in San Francisco for the SIIA Content Forum Conference to be followed by the Codie Awards. Newstex has been nominated for the "Content Newcomer of the Year Award". We look forward to attending our first Codie Awards and maybe bringing home some hardware.

Welcome the Gothamist to the Newstex Blogs on Demand product. The Gothamist is a network of city blogs which started in New York City in December, 2002, they have since grown to 15 cities in America, Europe, and Asia.

Then we have some Bling Bling for you! You can now add some jazzy banners to your site in a range of colors and sizes. Goto www.newstex.com/company/partners.php and pick the best banner and color for your site.

Today at the Buying & Selling Econtent conference Pam Springer, President of ECNext and a Newstex customer, announced the availability of her new FREE eBook titled "Search Engine Marketing for Publishers: the art of being found online."

This morning I spoke on a panel at Buying & Selling Econtent ("BSEC") at the beautiful Marriott Camel Back Inn in sunny and warm Arizona.

We're off this weekend to the Buying & Selling eContent Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona from April 9 - 11, 2006. This is a great conference in a very relaxed environment at the Camelback Inn, one of our favorite resorts.

This morning Newstex made two announcements which together offer important proof points in the development of blogs as enterprise ready content:

Alacra, a Newstex customer, recently launched a series of publisher/content provider interviews on the Alacablog.