Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Lee Summers, CEO of Reflect May 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes Lee Summers is only a few months into his job as CEO of Reflect, but neither the industry or the company were unfamiliar when he took over at the company’s Dallas head office earlier this year. In an unusual twist, he’d been on the other side of the table, as one of Reflect’s highest profile …
What If Managing Digital Signage Content Boiled Down To Sending An Email? May 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes Anyone involved in delivering a digital signage solution that’s going to be used, at least a little, by minimally trained and barely engaged local managers and workers knows the “big ask” is to dumb the user experience down as much as possible. If it’s complicated, people won’t use it, they say. And if it’s …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Keribin, CityMeo May 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
