Zoom In, And Again, And Again, And Again, And … February 8, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”4S1ER6Ya53A” width=”600″ height=”350″] This is pretty darn cool – an infinitely zooming interactive touch application developed by Toronto-based Content Interface. You pinch an image and zoom in to realize the pixels that define that image are actually images themselves, and when you zoom in more, the effect repeats. Endlessly. Every straight teenaged boy on …
Digital Signage Saving Millions In Plant Costs For Flooring Giant January 31, 2012 by Super User LA-based software firm UCView has posted a nice white paper about work it did with the world’s biggest flooring supplier, Georgia-based Mohawk Industries. It’s interesting because along with sorting out how to get HR and other company information out to masses of workers who don’t have or need company emails, the software is being used …
DSE Announces Content Award Finalists January 18, 2012 by Super User On the heels of announcing the Apex Award nominees for digital signage projects, the Digital Signage Expo folks have announced the finalists for its annual content awards. The awards “recognize originality in content applications tailored specifically for the many and varied global DOOH audiences. Nominees are content developers, whether advertising agencies, network operators or end …
DSE Announces 2012 Apex Award Finalists For Installations January 17, 2012 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo folks have announced 33 finalists for its Apex Awards, which celebrate innovation in the development and deployment of digital signage technology. The nominees in 11 categories were chosen from a field of 88 entrants, representing 18 countries. The judges were five industry journalists. <start mild rant> I don’t know who the judges are, …
AM Conference On Content Set For Jan. 24th In Toronto January 11, 2012 by Super User Maybe I have just been in this sector too long, or just too jaded, but my instant reaction to word of an event billed as the Digital Signage Masters Series: CONTENT is King – Best Practices is a plea to be shot and put out of my misery. Anyway, setting the hybrid over-grandiose/dead-tired event handle …
Pattison Onestop Teams With National Film Board of Canada For Unique Digital OOH Content January 6, 2012 by Super User Pattison Onestop continues to do some decidedly different things (yay!) with programming on its big screen network in Toronto’s subway system – the latest being a collaboration with the famed National Film Board of Canada. The HIGHRISE/ONE MILLIONth TOWER project (their CAPS, not sure why) is a multimedia program that includes video running on platform screens …
New Twist? – Digital OOH Network’s Content Goes Online December 21, 2011 by Super User No end of content has been pulled from other mediums to populate digital signage screens – from newspaper headlines turned into (ugh) news tickers to snippets of broadcast and online TV. But I can’t recall much, at all, going in the other direction – with content produced for a digital screen network finding its way …
Another big tech distributor adds content component December 9, 2011 by Super User The drive to sell content as a SKU in a digital signage order continues, this time with Tech Data doing a deal with Saddle Ranch Digital for “an exclusive line of SKUs specifically developed for Tech Data to complement its full line of content creation and management services.” “Our new partnership with Tech Data brings …
Everything old is new again dep’t: Crowd games in cinema December 3, 2011 by Super User MediaPost has a story up about how National CineMedia and the Audience Entertainment Group have launched an interactive gaming element to the pre-movie entertainment content and Digital OOH advertising package. Called AudienceGame, MediaPost reports that the movie audience controls the on-screen action by moving their arms back and forth in unison (or something close to it), …
Google’s Maps go indoors; digital wayfinding guys twitch November 29, 2011 by Super User [youtube id=”Gy-DI_bWElg” width=”600″ height=”350″] If your company has been developing wayfinding applications, particularly for things like airports and malls, you’ve probably been thinking Google might present a bit of a problem at some point. That point appears to have arrived, with Google’s announcement that the maps it serves up that allow billions of people to …
