New Version Of Intuiface Works In Interactive Web Triggers From IFTTT Recipes, Zapier Apps April 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes The French interactive software firm Intuilab has released a new version Intuiface that now allows content to be triggered based on really common Internet of Things web triggers, like IFTTT recipes. The company says while it has for several years supported data integration with third-party platforms, IntuiFace Version 6.2 adds Web Triggers that work with …
How To Screw Up A Digital Signage Deployment. April 10, 2018 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix While costs are certainly coming down, a comprehensive digital signage deployment is still a chunk of change. What a shame to spend all that money and then fumble the project when it comes to getting the system up and running. Unfortunately, that happens far more often than you might think. …
Startup Releases API For Cannabis Tech Companies, Including Digital Signage Solutions April 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes Via Pot Network With all of Canada going to legalized cannabis this summer and more U.S. states doing so (California is roughly the same population as Canada) there will be a lot of points of sale and a lot of digital menus and promo displays over the next few years. There’s a whole technology industry, …
Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design April 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And …
The Digital Campus: The Rising Challenge For Education April 9, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Gone are the days of the cold, impersonal lecture halls, with rows of students diligently writing notes after notes long-form in books and files they later go on to lose. Today’s students are ‘digital natives’ brought up in a world of smart phones, high speed wi-fi and technology on …
Instagram And Facebook Say Abrupt API Changes Tied To Broader Privacy Concerns April 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes Facebook’s newsroom page does NOT want to load for me – the loading circle thingie just spins and spins in Chrome – so I can’t read the company’s statement about why its Instagram wing made abrupt changes to its API yesterday that broke the functionality on a lot of third-party Instagram applications, including social media …
Projects: Century-old Garden Center Group Takes (Some Of) Its Messaging Digital April 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a straightforward menuboard and messaging boards set-up at Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd – which has 18 individual garden centres across England and has been doing this sort of thing for more than a century. The family-owned company cut over from pure print and some tablet-sized displays manually updated by thumb drive. The company did …
Instagram Changed Its API, And Now Your Version On Digital Signs Probably Isn’t Working April 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes If your digital signage or digital OOH network calls and displays Instagram posts/pix, you may well have an issue because of API changes made by the social media company. The short story is – a lot of what you show may no longer show. If you don’t have logins for Instagram account you want to …
Amazon’s LED-filled Visitor Center Explains Its New Rainforest Office Space In Seattle April 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is an area called Understory – an LED-filled exhibit and visitor center tied in with The Spheres – three giant intersecting, plant-filled domes that are part of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters building. The domes house more than 40,000 plants from the cloud forest regions of over 30 countries – making for a workplace that feels, …
Interactive She Too Digital Wall Prompts On-The-Spot Donations April 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a nice charity campaign in Toronto’s underground PATH concourse system that weaves through much of the central business district – involving a video wall and a nearby station that enables on-the-spot donations. PATTISON Outdoor and its digital innovation arm, Fourthwall, teamed up with local agency Jungle Media to promote CARE Canada’s She Too …
