Terrific street-level interactive window for ESPN September 17, 2009 by Dave HaynesPat Hellberg of The Preset Group (disclosure: so am I) sent along a link to this GREAT street-level promotion for ESPN and Monday Night Football, done with the help of projection media guys Monster Media and some gesture technology the agency, Wieden + Kennedy, doesn’t want to talk about.It’s great because it is interactive right at street-level, directly addresses …
More snappies of the 300-plus screen ACC install September 17, 2009 by Dave Haynes (Disclosure: I have some business ties with DDC, but I’d be showing these anyway … cool stuff)Jeff Wismer fought through the chaos of 80,000 or so people in a few square blocks of Toronto last night as U2 played the Rogers Centre and a couple of blocks over the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team had …
Wireless retailer overcomes big box challenge September 17, 2009 by Dave HaynesThe vast space of a big box retailer like Costco (for the unfamiliar, huge zero-frills warehouse stores) make it really hard to imagine how screen networks moght work effectively in there. In my sales guy days, I chatted with several companies who were planning to crack that environment with LCDs fixed here and there. I had …
Doubt Linutop will play Flash well…I u September 16, 2009 by Dave HaynesDoubt Linutop will play Flash well…I use a lot of Linux systems and Flash plays considerably slower on much more powerful AMD/Intel systems when compared to my Windows laptop.
Pittsburgh daily opens up Black Box, finds big company September 16, 2009 by Dave Haynes It’s still fairly rare when a daily newspaper has a look at one of the technology firms or network operators in this space, but the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette does a fairly deep take on Black Box Network Services, an IT services firm that over the past year has started coming more and more on to the …
Tiny, cute, expensive paperweight? September 15, 2009 by Dave Haynes I saw the PR come out yesterday about a little Linux-based teeny PC aimed at, among other things, digital signage. It has been a busy coupla days, so I finally just had a look at the thing now.The Linutop 3 looks cute, and at first pass the gadget appears to have a lot of promise. It is …
CODACAN changes plans for brekkie meeting; deferred to month's end September 15, 2009 by Dave Haynes The Canadian Out of Home Digital Association, which with the French version of same makes the acronym CODACAN, has witched up its breakfast series out of necessity, when one of the featured presenters got told about a no-miss day-long meeting the day of the breakfast evenmt. Oh well.So now the event (disclosure: I play a feeble role …
Congrats Dave … would like to connect September 14, 2009 by Dave HaynesCongrats Dave … would like to connect at some point
So three consultants walk into a … September 14, 2009 by Dave Haynes There are some smart people in this sector who walk around with cards identifying themselves as consultants – a handful by choice but a larger proportion out of necessity, as the economy and their own company’s business fortunes put an end to full-time gigs.There are a few companies that do consulting as part of a …
