Microsoft tablets show signs of life while phones don't

April 25, 2013 Subscribe | View as Web page. THEDAILYBUZZ A roundup of emedia news and views from around the web In this Issue Microsoft tablets show signs of life while phones don't Benchmarking your Facebook influence with Wolfram Alpha Good news for publishers focused on quality over quantity How to maintain hierarchy through content choreography Newspaper Reporter Beats Out Lumberjack, Soldier as "Worst Job of 2013" 5 ways publishers screw up in mobile A first? Zillow to conduct quarterly earnings Q&A via Facebook and Twitter advertisement 5 disruptive digital revenue models T here's plenty of activity – and anxiety – around how to leverage and monetize publisher assets, whether it be native advertising, commerce, mobile brand extensions, or marketing services. This 55-page eBook will help publishers define the best disruptive revenue opportunities and the necessary technology investments to support them. Click here to read. Microsoft tablets show signs of life while phones don't Microsoft may not be talking about how many of its Surface tablets it has shipped or sold since the Surface RT launched in late October. However, a report claims that three million Windows-based tablets shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2013. FULL ARTICLE - Neowin Benchmarking your Facebook influence with Wolfram Alpha More than a million people have now used Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook. Many have donated their data to create a massive data set that can be used to extract insights into the generations variations in social media use. FULL ARTICLE - Stephan Wolfram Good news for publishers focused on quality over quantity Agencies say they are looking more carefully at exactly how publishers are attracting the audiences and generating the ad impressions they claim. Often the numbers don't quite add up, they say, and they're getting more savvy at spotting when and why. FULL ARTICLE - Digiday How to maintain hierarchy through content choreography As a layout changes from a widescreen to a tablet to a smartphone, the number of columns is usually reduced from three or four down to one. The typical and easiest solution is to drop the columns one by one and stack them on top of each other. FULL ARTICLE - Smashing Magazine Newspaper Reporter Beats Out Lumberjack, Soldier as "Worst Job of 2013" Ouch! CareerCast.com cited "ever-shrinking newsrooms, dwindling budgets and competition from Internet businesses" among the factors making newspaper journalism jobs the nation's worst. FULL ARTICLE - Slate 5 ways publishers screw up in mobile the future is mobile, and the future is now. And yet many publishers, which are seeing well over a quarter and up to 50 percent of their traffic from mobile, are still screwing up. FULL ARTICLE - Digiday A first? Zillow to conduct quarterly earnings Q&A via Facebook and Twitter Blazing a trail for social media channels and earnings reports, the Seattle company said today that it plans to start conducting earnings questions-and-answers on its Facebook and Twitter accounts, in addition to its traditional earnings webcast — taking advantage of new SEC guidelines for disclosing material information on social media channels. FULL ARTICLE - GeekWire advertisement Advertise in the Daily Buzz If you are interested in advertising in The Daily Buzz, please contact Prescott Shibles at (917) 740-0026. You are receiving the Daily Buzz as a valuable member of the eMedia Vitals community. Please feel free to contact us at any time with feedback and comments. Click here to unsubscribe. Our mailing address is: Vital Business Media 65 Broadway New York, NY 10006 Copyright (C) 2013 Vital Business Media All rights reserved.