Full Digital Signage Advice Video Series Now Up August 8, 2013 by Super User It took me a while but all the Good Advice video pieces shot at the Preset Mixer last March (or was it Feb???) are now up on the Preset Group website. There are 12 videos from video folks, all addressing the simple premise of providing good advice to people new to this industry. Pat and …
Mirza Surfaces With Giant Ventures Firm August 7, 2013 by Super User Anyone who has been around the digital signage space for a few years will know Haroon Mirza, who was a co-founder of the video analytics company Cognovision, which was then bought in 2010 by Intel. Haroon left this spring when Intel decided to consolidate its retail technologies in Chandler, AZ – a move that made …
Can The Leap Motion Make A Touchless Touch Screen? August 7, 2013 by Super User The very cute little Leap Motion gesture device showed up via the post yesterday, and I had some time this morning and then this afternoon to download the software, plug the thing in, and see what it could do. For the unfamiliar, the Leap Motion is a gesture sensor that creates an infrared field in …
WordPress As A Digital Signage Platform August 2, 2013 by Super User I’m a huge WordPress fan and heavy user, with multiple blogs (like this one) and websites running off the web content management system. But I never really thought about it being used as the foundation platform for a digital signage network. Then I traded emails with Nate Jones – who has taken WordPress and used …
Almost $100M Later, Wireless Ronin Suggests Its Now Profitable August 2, 2013 by Super User Wireless Ronin’s latest financials suggest the digital signage software company is finally starting to do business like a normal company, coming off a quarter when it was kinda sorta actually but not really profitable. The company has reported that Q2 2013 marked the company’s “first quarter of profitability on a non-GAAP basis,” with revenue up …
DPAA Renews Drive For Content, Ops Standards; Issues Survey August 1, 2013 by Super User The Digital Place-based Advertising Association, with BroadSign’s help, has sent out a survey to its members and the larger ecosystem with a goal of establishing some standards that would, in theory, better inform and equip creative agencies and marketers who want to use the Digital Out Of Home medium. “Content producers require an intuitive way …
If A VP Sales Is Hired, Does Anyone Care? Nope. July 31, 2013 by Super User I was trading emails Tuesday with an industry friend, and explaining why I wasn’t covering an announcement from his company. It wasn’t personal, I said. I just didn’t think it was all that interesting, as news goes, and doubted I was alone in that perspective. It got me thinking about reader patterns, and the type …
Research Team Adds Touch Overlay To Print Poster; Makes Interactive July 30, 2013 by Super User The conventional wisdom is that digital will continue to inexorably replace paper signage, but a research team in the UK has come with something like a hybrid. They’ve made paper interactive. As PSFK reports: Novalia is a team of seven scientists, programmers and designers from the UK – all of whom are interested in turning paper into …
Monster Media Acquires LocaModa July 30, 2013 by Super User Monster Media has bought LocaModa in a deal that sees the Orlando-based digital out of home media company better equipped to add social media integration, not to mention smarts, to its offer via the small but respected Boston company. Stephen Randall, who founded LocaModa back in something like 2005, will now be the Executive VP …
In Digital Signage, Uptime Rules July 29, 2013 by Super User There is a fast casual restaurant on the departures level at Oliver Tambo airport in Johannesburg, South Africa that I have walked past at least a half dozen times in the last three months. The menu boards, any time I looked, never showed more than floating screen savers. On a video wall I was just …
