Pit-bull lawyers about to be released on DSE (kidding) March 4, 2010 by Super User My crack legal team is working furiously on an image rights case after the flagrant, unauthorized use of my image by DSE at the show last week. Somebody or other handed me a brochure on Day 1 and I absently looked at it and realized the dopey looking guy running an on-the-floor thingy was me. …
Stratacache starts new award for clever apps that bridge digital signage and mobile March 3, 2010 by Super UserThe mobile industry will have a huge impact on what the digital signage industry does over the next few years. It is not technology that operates in parallel to DS screens. It’s going to be integrated, and supplanting many of the notions we all had how screens would be used. Who, for example, is really …
DSF says it has 150 members already March 2, 2010 by Super User From my firm position on the fence, where I will stay for some time, the score is roughly 420-150 in the tomato-tossing match between the established Digital Signage Association and the fledgling Digital Signage Federation. The latter says it has already signed up 150 companies and individuals since it was formally launched last week. I am not …
Walkabout in LV March 2, 2010 by Super User I had hoped to have some time to just wander around and have a look at some stuff in Las Vegas last week, but in the end it boiled down to a free 45 minutes or so I had to get across the street to the Fashion Show mall to buy a shirt. But I …
Monster Media sets up sales office in Canada March 1, 2010 by Super User The companies that have been dabbling in the projection DOOH media space in Canada now have a pretty substantial competitor in their midst. Orlando, Florida-based Monster Media has hired a guy and established an office in Toronto, with a release this afternoon describing what they do as “full body responsive out-of-home advertising.” John Payne, president of Monster …
Reach Media Turns On NYTimes.com Today Network, but will viewers care? March 1, 2010 by Super User Reach Media Group, aka RMG Networks, has done a deal to run New York Times content starting today on some 850 screens in five big cities in coffee shops, casual restaurants and airport newsstands. The plan sees RMG taking content from the Web site and re-branding it as the NYTimes.com Today network. Another 850 screens will be added …
Numbers you should remember (and tout) if you are chasing retail business March 1, 2010 by Super UserLionel Tepper, who runs Digital Signage Universe, carved out the time to sit through some of the sessions at last week’s Digital Signage Expo. He always does a particularly thorough job, and he has quite a long, very useful section up about the Walmart Smart Network and the quality of its measurement. There is now lots …
DSE week will be interesting February 21, 2010 by Super User I am packed. Tickets printed. Seat chosen. Insured up the wahzoo because I don’t want to be bankrupted if I get a paper cut. This time last year I think there was a lot of snow on the ground and it had been a looooong winter. This year there is no snow up here and …
LocaModa sweats it assets; opens apps store February 16, 2010 by Super User This is smart. LocaModa has taken a lot of the Flash-centric applications it has developed and refined over the last 3-4 years, added some new ones, and packaged them up into an app store. These are essentially full-screen widgets that DOOH networks can grab to juice up their programming with something outside the over-used and …
Reminder: DOPES meeting and meet-up Tuesday night in LV February 23, 2009 by Dave Haynes Well the authorities kindly let me into the country, and I am safely on the ground in Las Vegas, looking east from my third floor room at the Rio over a glorious expanse of HVAC plants and satellite dishes. One look at me and I suppose it was clear I was not a whale, and …
