Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Keribin, CityMeo May 3, 2017 by Super User Most of the companies I sit down with on these podcasts are well-established, and my interview subjects have a lot if history behind them. But I got pitched by a French start-up called CityMeo, and I agreed to meet up for a chat several weeks ago at ISE in Amsterdam, even though I knew zero …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Hugh Coghill-Smith, ONELAN April 26, 2017 by Super User ONELAN has been around the digital signage market for many, many years, but the company is far better known on its UK home turf, and in other parts of the world, than it is in North America. That’s changing, as ONELAN starts to build into the US and Canada with a really well respected software …
Want Workplace Transparency? Turn On Digital Signage April 25, 2017 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix Values are just as important as goals to the modern workforce, especially when it comes to the fastest-growing segment – millennials. Some 25% of millennials say their number one career goal is to “make a positive impact”on their organization, according to IBM. Organizations should not only have clear targets but …
NYC Startup Roadify Makes Subscription Mass Transit Data Available For Digital Signage Networks April 19, 2017 by Super User It appears the TransitScreen guys have some indirect competition – in the form of a NYC startup Roadify Transit – when it comes to providing local mass transport data to screen networks. Roadify aggregates transit data from more than 400 agencies, bike share programs, and car ride services in the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, and Australia …
Browsing Google Chrome And The Physical Web April 19, 2017 by Charles Regula Guest Post: Doug Thompson, Fidgets Chrome 57 has launched, and with it in-browser support for the Physical Web. Now, when a user goes to conduct a search or enter a web URL, any nearby Physical Web addresses will appear just below the address bar as seen in the above graphic. It adds another piece to the proximity …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Martin Romanowski, Smartsign April 19, 2017 by Super User Martin Romanowski is the CEO of the Swedish CMS software firm Smartsign, which has been providing a digital signage solution all the way back into the late 1990s. His company is best known in Europe, and it has offices in eight countries and users in more than 30. Romanowski and I chatted at ISE in …
Impressions From InfoComm China 2017 April 17, 2017 by Super User Back from Beijing after several days spent talking and walking at InfoComm China, and waaaay too many hours on my butt flying home. Thanks first to John Wang and Amanda Sung of IAdea, and the rest of the folks from the Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance (of Taiwan) for working with InfoComm to have me over …
Uber Open Sources Its Data Visualization Framework April 7, 2017 by Super User Via TechCrunch If your company is looking into data visualization, and has developers eager to have a run at it, here’s a pretty sophisticated open source development framework that Uber – yeah, that Uber – has made available. The data visualization framework used internally by the ride-share company to do things like visualize customer experiences was made …
Projects: Going From Chalkboards To Digital Saves Bar 180-Plus Labor Hours A Year April 7, 2017 by Super User A little bar and restaurant down the highway from me in Stratford, Ontario has worked out that putting in digital signage displays has saved them 182 hours in labor costs annually. Until a big reno in 2013, Bentley’s Bar, Inn & Restaurant did their daily menu specials, beer boards and martini boards all by hand …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jerome Moeri, CEO of Navori April 5, 2017 by Super User I’ve known Jerome Moeri, the CEO of Navori, for more than a decade, but we’ve never had much of a chance to have a good long chat. That changed at ISE a few weeks ago, when we slotted half an hour to talk about how the Swiss software company got started and where it is …
