Digital OOH Forum: 2/3 of US networks have less than $1M revenues April 14, 2011 by Super UserWell I was merrily watching the live stream from New York from the comfort of my armed mountain compound high above Lake Ontario when the feed went kablooey (sorry for the technical term). Hopefully somebody grabs a hammer and beats the appliance back into cooperation. Before that happened, Patrick Quinn from PQ Media led things …
OVAB's first Middle East meeting this week April 11, 2011 by Super UserOVAB Europe is officially expanding its footprint this week with an inaugural event for the Middle East-North Africa region set for Wednesday in Dubai. If that’s where you are based, the meeting is from 4-6pm at Eclipse, which I assume is a bar or restaurant in the Intercontinental Hotel at Dubai Festival City, a massive …
CETW walking the talk, using customer engagement tools April 6, 2011 by Super UserThe Customer Engagement Technology World (aka CETW or CET World or the trade show formerly known as KioskCom) is coming up quick. Not going. Not because I don’t want to, but mostly because flights to San Fran from Toronto are freakin’ expensive for whatever reason, and rooms are definitely not at Lost Wages rates. The …
Artisan running Good, Bad and Ugly GlobalShop review April 6, 2011 by Super UserThis is interesting and quite clever. The Toronto merchandising and design firm Artisan Complete is doing a Globalshop Review on Friday, over lunch, at its studio at 331 Amber Street in Markham. We will walk you through a summary of this years Outstanding Merchandising Achievement Awards, highlighting the best design (and some bad) work from …
Rise Vision sponsoring next Toronto industry mixer. Register now. April 4, 2011 by Super UserByron Darlison and his crew at Rise Vision are the sponsors for the May 10th digital signage/digital out of home media network mixer in Toronto. Rise has been in the software business for almost 20 years and in recent years has carved out a name for itself as one of the real innovators, steadily building …
Update: sponsor for next Toronto industry mixer in place March 31, 2011 by Super UserLooks like we already have a sponsor lined up, yippee, for the May digital signage/Digital OOH industry mixer. A local company has graciously stepped up to be the host sponsor. Details to follow but first I will get EventBrite all tweaked up so we can make better use of it for registration, contacts, etc. Forget …
DSE Industry Forum sponsors filled, but still adding guests March 31, 2011 by Super UserThe DSE Industry Forum set for mid-May in the Tampa-St. Pete area has sold out its 16 sponsor slots and is now in the throes of rounding out its list of attendees willing to speed-date with vendors in return for a nice golf and relax getaway. The sponsor list is heavy on the display side …
Next Toronto mixer targeted for May 10th March 30, 2011 by Super UserThe Red Sox are in town playing the Jays a few blocks over, so traffic might be a little messy, but I think May 10th is still as good a date as any for the next Toronto digital signage and Digital OOH industry mixer. It will run at the same place as we did it …
Battery-powered displays and kiosks cut the cord March 25, 2011 by Super UserChester Niziol had me up to the Toronto-area R&D digs of one of his companies, ideaLAB, something like a year ago to show me a prototype of a display he was working on that ran off nothing but batteries for a full business day. It was a little bulky and prototypey (invented word), but I …
Video: 3D projection mapping on Sydney Opera House March 22, 2011 by Super UserHere’s video of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra finale from Sunday night at the Sydney Opera House. As it is described: The art of real-time visual technology meets modernist architecture as audio-reactive graphic projections and live digital painting simultaneously canvas the interior and exterior of the iconic building with parallel projection shows. Done by Obscura Digital.
