Yes, But WTF Do You Do? October 29, 2013 by Super User One of the things that I had to self-excise from my Your Baby’s Ugly presentation last week was a discussion on how companies tend to market themselves in this sector. So many get caught up playing Buzzword Bingo that it’s increasingly tough to cut through the crap and sort out what the companies actually do …
NEC’s VUKUNET Started As ZUKUNET October 28, 2013 by Super User Funny little tidbit from Pierre Richer’s 25 minute riff at the tail end of the DailyDOOH Investor Conference last week in New York. The head of NEC Display said when he and his team were pulling together the plans for digital signage ad-serving platform, they wanted a short, intriguing and cool brand name, a la …
Commoditized: Now You Can Get Interactive Projection Systems For Sub-$500 October 26, 2013 by Super User Gizmodo has a piece up today about a company looking for funding, via Kickstarter, that has largely commoditized the technology used for interactive projection systems. What the company has is intended for the bedrooms of little kids, but Raspberry Pi was intended as a kit to teach schoolkids about computing, and that went in a …
Projects: Macy’s Herald Square In NYC October 25, 2013 by Super User The biggest department store in the world is now, not surprisingly, turning into the biggest retail digital signage project in the world. Or at least looks like it is. I had about an hour before heading to NYC JFK on Thursday so I zipped down to see the renovations I had been hearing about Macy’s …
Your Baby’s Ugly October 25, 2013 by Super User Here’s an audio-backed version of the presentation I did at the October 2013 DailyDOOH Digital Signage Investor Conference in NYC. It’s about 25 minutes but moves along nicely. Enjoy (I hope).
Trolls May Have Seven More Digital Signage Patents Coming (or More) October 25, 2013 by Super User The just-ended DailyDOOH Digital Signage Investor Conference was held in a conference room of a big NYC law firm, so one of the intriguingly handy things was having specialty practice lawyers directly speaking or dipping in on the presentations. On Day 2, a patent lawyer was pulled into the discussion and led a fascinating chat …
Digital Signage Investor Conference Impressions October 25, 2013 by Super User Back at HQ, sipping coffee, after returning from New York via Buffalo from the DPAA conference and then two days at the DailyDOOH Digital Signage Investor Conference. I had not gone to this event in a few years, as it was started and run for many years by a company that did conferences for a …
No More Tears For Digital Signage? October 24, 2013 by Super User Bryan Mongeau of BroadSign sent me a note the other day about a new graphics capability announced by Nvidia, suggesting it represented a big opportunity and technology shift for the digital signage sector. The announcement had to do with something called NVIDIA G-Sync – a graphics card enhancement that changes the way display monitors handle the …
DPAA Conference Impressions October 24, 2013 by Super User I’m in NYC and on the go, with pretty much zippo time to write. But here goes … This was the 3rd or 4th time I have been to the DPAA conference. Good venue. Well-run. Very well attended. Lotsa vendors spending a good chunk of change for a one-day conference break area booth – particularly …
iSign’s Ad Rights Deal On Mac’s Digital OOH Network Falls Through, For Now October 17, 2013 by Super User A reader alerted me to an update on the very curious case of a Montreal company with little to no digital OOH advertising experience taking on a burdensome contract for the ad rights in a Canadian c-store chain. The news release about the deal between iSIGN and iTrix Media said at the time: The contract …
