Newstex publishers' stories: Mary Weilage of Technology Advice Brands

In the past week, there have been some interesting updates about the rumored Amazon smartphone and Facebook smartphone products.

A new infographic from the Pew Research Project for Excellence in Journalism puts the shift in news consumption to tablet devices in quantifiable perspective.

Another blog that is syndicated through Newstex has been recognized for its authoritative content!

Technorati has released its annual report that analyzes the world of blogging with the 2011 State of the Blogosphere (click to see 2010 and 2009 results), and the results show some distinct differences between hobby bloggers and professional and corporate bloggers.

Ed Keating has left his role as Vice President Content Division for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) to become the Chief Content Office (CCO) for BLR (Business & Legal Resources), a leading information resource provider.

Entries for the 2012 SIIA Previews is now open. If you're looking for growth capital, strategic partnerships or an exit strategy, you can apply to present before an audience of prospective partners, customers, investors, and more.

Barack Obama might have been the first United States presidential candidate to focus on social media and Twitter as part of his campaign marketing plan, but he's certainly not the last.

This week, Klout announced in a post on its company blog that it changed the way its scoring algorithm calculates online influence ratings.

If reports from the Associated Press are correct, then it appears that Google is meeting with private equity firms about financing a third-party purchase of Yahoo!

In a new video interview, Colin O’Keefe of the LexBlog Network interviewed Ben Stevens of The Mac Lawyer blog to learn how Macs are impacting law firms.

The iPhone 4S launched in seven countries this week, and within the first three days, 4 million units were sold. It's surely the "it" gadget of the moment, but should content publishers care?

Congratulations to Michael Englund, chief economist for Action Economics (whose content is syndicated through Newstex Authoritative Content) for winning the September 2011 Forecaster of the Month Award from MarketWatch.

Just in case you ever doubt the long-term benefits of publishing high quality, authoritative content, here's a new piece of data to remind you that quality always wins.

In July, YouTube launched the YouTube Creator Playbook -- a 70 page document that guides online video content creators in using all the features and functions of YouTube to publish the best videos possible.

In a new article published on Slaw, a Canadian, co-operative blog about all things legal which is syndicated through Newstex Authoritative Content, Doug Jasinski shares his insight and tips for law blogs and some lessons to learn from lawyers, law firms, blogs, and social media.

There are a lot of books about blogging available today, but the new Bloggers Boot Camp brings something different to the table -- its authors.

Congratulations to the Newstex Authoriative Content publishers who won 2011 Online Journalism Awards -- ProPublica and OpenSecrets.

Nielsen's Social Media Report was released this month putting numbers to many of the trends that have taken place in recent months related to social media, content consumption, and mobility.

Last week, YouTube completed its global roll out of some basic video editing capabilities that enable video publishers to log into their YouTube accounts, click the new Edit video button at the top of the video's page...

Twitter analytics are finally coming! This week, Twitter announced that a small pilot group of Twitter partners, including TechCrunch, are currently testing a new Twitter analytics tool that will be released in the very near future.

This month, Twitter is celebrating reaching a significant milestone by thanking its users through a blog post saying, "Five years ago, Twitter came to life when @jack sent the first tweet to his seven followers.

New research from bitly gives social media links a 3-hour lifespan. In other words, if the content links you publish on Twitter, Facebook, and other social sites aren't shared within 3 hours, the opportunity is already lost.

How did you celebrate Labor Day 2011? Did you take a minute to celebrate yourself and other workers in America (employed and unemployed)? That's what the holiday was created for back in 1882, but today, most people are just happy to get a day off of work for Labor Day.

Time for another interview in the Newstex Publisher in the Spotlight video interview series where we turn the spotlight on the bloggers, Twitter publishers, and video publishers who syndicate their Authoritative Content through Newstex.

The 2011 edition of the top-selling dictionary in the United States, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, adds 150 new words, including several popular social media terms.

Are you on Google+ yet? It's Google's social platform that is still in beta but already has over 20 million users. Online publishers are scrambling to add the Google +1 sharing button to their websites, blogs, and so on.

A recent study by GlobalWebIndex sheds light on how people are using sites like Twitter and Facebook and what they want from online publishers.

Are your landing pages optimized? In an article on Search Engine Journal, tips for landing page optimization (LPO) are provided by experts who track landing page optimization do's and don'ts every day in order to boost conversions.

In an interesting infographic from Wistia and Column Five, the decline of television viewership is displayed visually as online video streaming continues to rise.

We truly live in an online social world! August 12, 2011 marks the 30th anniversary of the debut of the IBM Personal Computer at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.

TheDailyBeast.com is a site that curates content from other sources, adds commentary, and focuses on breaking news. It's a very popular site that allows people to quickly catch up on the news that interests them.

Online publishers share one understanding -- Wikipedia is not a valid source of information. Since its content is created by users, it cannot be trusted to be accurate.

Android's dominance over the U.S. smartphone market continues with second quarter 2011 data from Nielsen providing the following market share percentages by operating system:

According to research from ZDnet, people download apps from the Apple Store faster than they buy McDonald's hamburgers.

Do you want to increase search traffic to your YouTube videos and channel? If you publish Authoritative Content through online videos, then people should get the chance to view them.

Remember when Google was a cool new company that let employees take naps and play in game rooms during breaks? Today, Google spends more money on lobbying that Microsoft.