Very cool: 3D Projection-Mapping Blasted From Half-mile Out To Sydney Opera House Sails March 18, 2011 by Super UserThis looks pretty spankin’ amazing on a bunch of levels. A week-long music festival in Sydney, Australia will culminate with a performance at the city’s iconic concert hall by the YouTube Symphony Orchestra – some 100 classical musicians from around the globe who auditioned online to be part of this event. The big concert on …
A call for lanyards and badge-holders March 9, 2011 by Super UserBased on a lot of feedback from the big Preset Group Mixer in Lost Wages a coupla weeks ago, the Toronto mixer last night featured the amazing new innovation of name tags – with names scrawled with a Sharpie on the $5 “Hello, My Name is …” stick-on your chest things I got at Zeller’s …
MediaPost's DOOH Forum in April taking shape March 9, 2011 by Super UserMediaPost held what looked to be a very successful Digital OOH Forum last year in NYC, and this year’s version on April 14th appears to be coming together. Agenda highlights include: Opening Keynote Presentation – Target’s Video Game Reinvention Kiosks With Chris Borek, Senior Manager, Interactive Multi-Channel Experience, Target, and Trevor Kaufman, CEO, Possible Worldwide Me – …
Mixer Report: A great evening, with 70-plus March 9, 2011 by Super UserReviving the Toronto mixer series proved to be a great idea, and thanks to the people who nagged me about getting it together. We didn’t do a formal head-count, but I think it is entirely safe to say somewhere around 70 or more people showed up last night. Best Buy For Business did a terrific …
Reminder: Toronto Digital Signage/DOOH Mixer Tonight March 8, 2011 by Super UserIt had been way too long between mixers, but schedules and workload kept getting in the way of getting things organized. The demand is certainly still there, though, and we are now expecting at least 50 people to the industry networking mixer tonight in downtown Toronto. I know that because I did an EventBrite thing …
DSE 2011 attendance jumped by 6% March 8, 2011 by Super UserDigital Signage Expo has released its 2011 attendance numbers, with 3,614 people showing up for the event two weeks ago. That’s up six percent from 2010, and in line with other numbers released earlier that showed exhibitor numbers and overall floor footprint were also up. Well done, ExpoNation! I know Customer Engagement Technology World in …
ScreenReach at Demo 2011, announces 800 screen interactive deal with RMG March 2, 2011 by Super UserIn the lead-up to DSE and our frantic planing for the Preset Group DSE Mixer we chatted with Paul Rawlings of ScreenReach Interactive, a UK company that does really interesting integration between mobile devices and screens, be they place-based or even in homes. Rawlings, a great young guy, was very happy to throw some resource …
UPDATED: Details on Toronto industry mixer, March 8 March 1, 2011 by Super User Best Buy For Business, which does a pile of deployment work in Canada and is getting more deeply involved in the sector, is sponsoring an industry mixer next Tuesday, March 8th, at Shoeless Joe’s in downtown Toronto. The address is 276 King Street West, at the intersection of King and Duncan. The mixer will …
Video: Lumimo video building blocks February 28, 2011 by Super UserWay, way, way at the very back of the DSE hall last week was a company called Lumimo, showing off technology from Japan that embeds an LED module in a cube that’s maybe twice the size of a toy building block. The cubs are all wired and interconnect, controlled in clusters by controller boxes. The …
Denys Lavigne's arm-load of awards February 28, 2011 by Super UserThis is Arsenal Media president Denys Lavigne holding an arm-load worth of DSE content and project awards – including three top prizes – right after last week’s DSE awards dinner. The moron beside him is, of course, claiming to be the real mastermind behind Arsenal Media’s success. Denys and I have been friends for many …
