CETW: Why I’m Not Going, And Reasons To Go March 19, 2012 by Super User A few people have sent me notes recently asking if I was going to CETW and could we meet up? Unfortunately, I’m not. And I think that’s the case for a lot of people in the pure-play (if there is such a thing) digital signage sector. I like the show and think the JD Events …
rAVe: Kayye On Extron’s Opting Out Of Major Pro AV Shows March 14, 2012 by Super User Since breaking the news that Extron is no longer exhibiting at the InfoComm USA or Integrated Systems Europe shows two weeks ago, we’ve had a deluge of comments on our website, our LinkedIn page, our Facebook page and even ourTwitter feed. And, the opinions have been all over the place. On one side are those …
Three DSE Pre-Show Education Sessions To Consider March 1, 2012 by Super User Just a few more sleeps and one very early alarm setting before I head to Lost Wages for Digital Signage Expo. Admittedly, I have been so freaking busy getting the Preset Group Mixer sorted, and also trying to earn a living, that I have not paid a lot of attention to the education sessions that …
Communications Are Critical When SaaS Loses The Second S February 9, 2012 by Super User Much of the software side of this business runs on a SaaS (Software as a Service) basis, meaning it is the job of those companies to fully support the servers, power, security, data pipe and other elements that allow them to share computing across multiple customers and thousands of client players/accounts. I don’t recall hearing …
Company’s New Up-Time Service Seems To Just Keep Up With Industry Joneses February 6, 2012 by Super User Retail marketing agency/digital signage software vendor and consultancy John Ryan has announced the launch of a bank-centric digital signage monitoring application designed to maximize up-time. The company is calling its service very different, but apart from the technical details about how things happen, I’m not sure what’s actually distinct here from what’s pretty common among …
Tech Blog Declares The Minority Report Moment Is Here (It’s Not) January 19, 2012 by Super User In what is an almost epic reach, Mashable is describing a trade show-bait thing put together by Razorfish and Microsoft, for NRF this week, as the arrival, finally, of that big, frighteningly invasive moment in the flick Minority Report when ad screens start beckoning Tom Cruise to engage and buy. This isn’t even close, and it’s …
Guest Post: The Good and Bad of Augmented Reality 3D Virtual Fitting Rooms January 13, 2012 by Jack Benoff Have you seen the coverage of these 3D Virtual Fitting Rooms? Thanks to the power of the Microsoft Kinect several of these hacks products have entered the market over the past few months, and they’re getting a bit of media attention (wait, here’s another one that just launched yet is claiming to be the “first”). Because of all this coverage, I’ve …
2011: Good, Bad and Fugly (Part 3) December 30, 2011 by Super User Part Three: The Fugly Content Is One Fugly King The majority of the creative running on screens in this sector is crappy because the good stuff costs real money. Usually BIG money. The best and brightest creative minds aren’t paid $20/hour and hired straight out of some two-year technical college. They work at agencies and …
2011: Good, Bad And Fugly (Part 2) December 30, 2011 by Super User (Link to Part 1: The Good …) I’m going to look more at trends, as opposed to calling out people, organizations or projects. That serves no particularly good purpose. But let’s just say the environment is target-rich. Common Sense The other day, I was standing outside one of those mall body lotion shops that seem …
2011: Good, Bad and Fugly (Part 1) December 29, 2011 by Super User I wasn’t going to do a 2011 look-back thing because frankly, I operate in a little bit of a bubble in my home office and live bait shop, and don’t get out to see enough that I could tell you what really was the best and worst. How do you see everything, or even a …
