Why you should attend mixers … April 20, 2010 by Dave HaynesRichard Fortin is the president of ITES Media, a Montreal software house that does digital signage but is mostly focused on kiosks. He sent me a nice note yesterday, running through how making the time to come to a Toronto event led to him expanding his business. One year ago, I was in Toronto on April …
Nanonation demos iPad app for retail and digital signage April 20, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis is my first stab at using my little Flip video thingdoodle – kindly supplied by some friends at Cisco – to show some stuff I see at trade shows and from my other travels. The video is a quick chat with Brian Ardinger on Nanonation about the iPad app they quickly did up for …
Kioskcom/Digital Signage Show wraps up April 17, 2010 by Dave HaynesCompared to my visit here in February, this Las Vegas trip has been remarkably well-behaved – punching out one night before 11 pm (major record) and keeping over-indulging to a minimum. Despite that I have not had the time or energy to crank out posts. I did the “What? Huh?” thing when somebody mentioned Europe’s …
Kioskcom and DS Show being re-branded as Customer Engagement Technology World March 18, 2010 by Dave HaynesJD Events, the guys who have been doing Kioskcom for the past decade, are renaming and re-branding the the kiosk show and its sister digital signage event as Customer Engagement Technology World, starting this fall in New York. The show that is in Vegas next month will be, yay!!!, in San Francisco in spring 2011. …
Live streaming from SXSW in Austin, to DOOH network in Chicago March 16, 2010 by Dave HaynesOne of the things that gets repeated over and over again, but usually ignored, is the need to get content on screens that is unique and actually interesting to the targeted viewing audience. This definitely qualifies as unique. The LA-based consulting group Future Content LLC is running something called Viewtopia this week, live from the …
Reminder: DOPES meeting and meet-up Tuesday night in LV February 23, 2009 by Dave Haynes Well the authorities kindly let me into the country, and I am safely on the ground in Las Vegas, looking east from my third floor room at the Rio over a glorious expanse of HVAC plants and satellite dishes. One look at me and I suppose it was clear I was not a whale, and …
Vegas meet-up and formative society meeting February 19, 2009 by Dave Haynes Yes, there’s a place where it’s still 1974 — where, for a few carefree hours, one can sink back into a plush booth next to a bubbling pool of fire; where cocktail waitresses in full-length gowns bring you mai tais and zombies while you munch on salted almonds and bask in the hazy, blue- and …
DSE '09 announces breakout show for something pretty much everyone at DSE does July 30, 2008 by Dave HaynesThere’s a reason for this … just what, we’re not sure. Digital Signage Expo (DSE) will introduce a new Out-of-Home Network Show, Feb. 25-26, 2009, in Las Vegas, reports Digital Signage Today. “We are introducing the Out-of-Home Network Show to showcase private networks, an innovative result of the digital signage industry, because they are becoming …
IBC show joins the DS party July 29, 2008 by Dave HaynesWell, if you were trying to figure out a way to get a quick European holiday in this year, maybe you can talk your boss into the absolute importance of attending the big IBC 2008 show in Amsterdam in September. This year, the show has bolted on a digital signage component. IBC2008 organizers will add …
OVAB adds another six members July 2, 2008 by Dave HaynesThe Out-of-Home Video Advertising Bureau (aka OVAB) has added another six companies to its list of members, mostly networks but also what is OVAB’s second software supplier member. The new members are CNN Airport Network, Danoo (hyperlocal ad network on US west coast), EnQii (software, my last business card), NBC Everywhere, PumpTop TV and Ripple …
