DSrupted: Brad Parler On Firing First Shot In Content Revolution July 9, 2015 by Super User Brad Parler has turned the typically bland business of corporate communications on its ears with a content programming model at his workplace – the online retailer Blinds.com – that actually makes people want to look, and keep looking. Instead of text and number lists of performance indicators or employee of the month photos, Parler shot, …
Menuat Puts Creative First With Menu-Board Offer July 9, 2015 by Super User I got into a yelling match at Infocomm last month with a guy named Jeff Charette, CEO of a cool little startup called Menuat. We were hollering at each other, from a foot away, because we were at a big vendor’s networking party and the band was louder, I swear, than Metallica – even though …
How Digital Menu Boards Can Help You June 30, 2015 by Debbie DeWitt Guest Post: Freddie Laker, Kairos Stand at the counter in any fast food restaurant or cafe. Somewhere up in front of you there will be a menu displayed. In some places, it might be very amateurish, maybe even handwritten. More often, there will be sign-written boards. Usually these are drab, tedious, and functional. They list what …
Monster, Aerva Patent Dispute Settlement Could Have Broad Implications For Running Social Media On Screens June 24, 2015 by Super User A pair of companies long active in digital signage and digital out of home have reached an out of court patent dispute settlement that could have broader implications for the use of social media feeds on networked digital screens. Boston-based software and solutions firm Aerva has reached a settlement in a patent infringement action filed by …
YCD Beefs Up HTML5 Support On C-nario Suite June 23, 2015 by Super User I don’t tend to write about minor version releases for software, as only existing clients and almost-there prospects really care. But news from the Israeli firm YCD Multimedia caught my eye. Version 3.7.1 of its C-nario Digital Signage Suite (you may remember YCD bought C-nario) adds some important features for supporting HTML5 content – which is …
IntuiLab, Signagelive Team On Interactive Content-Builder For ChromeOS Digital Signage June 23, 2015 by Super User The French company IntuiLab has long had great software that enables users to develop interactive touch experiences without knowing much of anything about coding, but the technology has always been on the fringes of digital signage. That’s changed with a partnership that builds IntuiLab into UK-based Signagelive’s content management platform, and has it optimized for …
Why I’m Going To InfoComm: Cam Gross, Lift June 1, 2015 by Super User Cam Gross of the Minneapolis interactive content/software Lift is heading to InfoComm in a couple of weeks. Here’s his take: 1 – How many years have you been going to InfoComm? This will be my first year. I am honored to be invited to sit on a Solutions Summit Digital Signage panel. 2 – What …
Projects: Airport Services Operator Using Digital Signage To Drive Services May 28, 2015 by Super User Cutter Aviation is the world’s oldest continually family-owned Fixed Base Operator (think airport within an airport) and aviation service company, with ops at eight major airports in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas. The company does a range of services for aircraft owners coming in and going out of these sites, as well as …
Live Data Visualizations As Hypnotic Signage May 28, 2015 by Super User On the way to San Francisco’s airport after a day with a client 2-3 weeks ago I stopped in at Google for a quick update meeting on what the tech giant is up to with Chrome and Chromeboxes for digital signage. In the lobby of the building I was in – one of the main …
Cloud down, so sign down (Updated) May 26, 2015 by Super User Bryan Mongeau, the Vice President of Technology at BroadSign, and a guy who pays a lot of attention to emerging tech, sent along this photo he strayed across online of an ad campaign running on a Times Square LED ad board: Says Bryan: This error is coming from the Azure cloud service, which means someone …
