Three birthday candles for DailyDOOH July 25, 2010 by Super UserWhen little kids turn three they stop a lot of their babbling and start to form coherent sentences, so we’re hoping the same thing will now apply with DailyDOOH and its crack team. ;-] More seriously, happy three years to Adrian and the kids at DailyDOOH, which I think can be safely assessed as the …
Display-focused digital signage conference set for next month in Silicon Valley July 22, 2010 by Super UserThe market research company DisplaySearch is staging a display-centric (go figure) Digital Signage Conference on August 17 in San Jose, CA, baked into an overall conference. It is billed as bringing in speakers that cross the spectrum of the digital signage supply chain, but is understandably heavy on the display folks. It’s a pretty good …
DSE backers plan matchmaker weekend July 21, 2010 by Super UserIf you are a digital signage vendor with $9,000-$15,000 burning a hole in your undoubtedly deep pockets, you can relieve of yourself of that burden now during a relaxing weekend at a resort and spa in San Diego this fall. Digital Signage Expo has organized what it is calling an industry forum on the extended …
Ticker Free Day: Stop Crawling! July 9, 2010 by Super UserDailyDOOH has picked up and run with David Weinfeld’s idea of July 9th being the day when network operators concede the news headline tickers crawling across the bottoms of their digital displays achieve little, other than ensuring fewer people noticed the more important messages of ads. Several well-regarded bloggers like David have done posts on the subject …
Interactive stations jazz up Montreal fest July 6, 2010 by Super UserA couple of Montreal companies are behind a nice little program running right now at Montreal’s famed, and massive jazz festival. The event takes over the some of the streets in the city, and Sportech and Groupe Viva (related companies) deployed and are doing the programming management on messaging and interactive stations for Bell, one …
Find your customers; don't make them find you July 1, 2010 by Super UserI like the annual DSE trade show because it is a central place to catch up with a lot of customers. BUT, my customers are mostly vendors working in the digital signage sector. As a former booth bunny at these shows, selling for software companies, I’ve always had big questions about the costs versus benefits. …
Happy Canada Day July 1, 2010 by Super UserIt is Canada’s national birthday today, so Happy Birthday to my fellow Canucks, and early best wishes to my American friends who celebrate their own in four days. The beaver, as just about everyone knows, is a national symbol. Do NOT – trust me on this – search Google images for “fat+beaver” without SafeSearch on. …
Toronto's ACC to host digital signage education event June 25, 2010 by Super UserThe Air Canade Centre in Toronto is a great example of a digital signage project that was very carefully planned and executed to deliver on needs and objectives, and the result is a project where the screens are really a part of the fan experience and driving revenues for the building operator. In an interesting …
Where are the content people? June 11, 2010 by Super UserI was at InfoComm chatting and mostly listening to Dos Dosanjh from Cisco, who is the company’s content evangelist (though I don’t think that is what’s on his biz card). We were having one of those conversations that many, many of us who’ve been around for a while have about the poor state of content …
InfoComm Day 2 – Impressions June 11, 2010 by Super UserAnd here I sit at Gate B15, getting the heck out of Las Vegas, at least for a while. Nine days on the ground here is tooo much. By about 2 PM walking around the LVCC I was done, but kept on visiting people. I wandered into most corners of the floor, yakking with a …
