DSF's chair looks back at first year February 17, 2011 by Super UserIt has now been a year since the established order of the digital signage sector was shaken up with news of the Digital Signage Federation. Very suddenly, there were two opposing organizations competing for the hearts and minds of companies and individuals active in this sector. I asked the heads of the two organizations if …
DS Talent Pool: Eitan Amit February 7, 2011 by Super UserI got to know Eitan Amit when I was working for another company and, along with some partner companies, trying to pull off a very nice little shelf-edge digital signage thing for a major liquor brand. Eitan was working for the project lead, and I was the guy who sold his company on the hardware …
DSF formalizes board, tweaks roster February 7, 2011 by Super UserThe Digital Signage Federation has shifted from an interim to full board and tweaked its roster, adding Kimberly Sarubbi (Saddle Ranch Productions), Jeff Dowell (LG Electronics USA) and Geri Wolff (Market Works International and PR lead for Digital Signage Expo). Dropping off were Paul Bleimeyer (Mayo Clinic) and Bil Trainor (Capital Networks). Interim turned full board members: • Bob …
Thoughts on five years … February 4, 2011 by Super UserTomorrow, Feb. 5th, is the five-year anniversary of Sixteen:Nine – five years and closing in on 2,000 posts about the digital signage and digital out of home sector. My first post didn’t say a whole bunch more than, “Hello??? Anybody out there?” Five years later, I know there are indeed people out there. I just …
Young joins SapientNitro January 26, 2011 by Super UserRussell Young has joined SapientNitro as its Director of Alliances for Digital Merchandising. He was on the job at the start of the month, having jumped from Samsung, where he was pretty much the friendly face of the commercial display panel in the US for the last few years. It’s a nice pick-up for the …
Travelling most of week … January 25, 2011 by Super UserOn the road bright and early today. New posts will owe a lot to the timeliness or lack of same of Air Canada as I go here and there the next few days. New York tomorrow and hopefully on my way to Montreal before the next snowstorm hits the US East coast. Mercifully, no big …
Preset Group's DSE 2011 Mixer In Works December 29, 2010 by Super UserL-R: Jose Avalos (Intel), Denise MacDonell and Carre Dawson (Harris), and Pat Hellberg (Preset Group) Thanks to Adrian @ DailyDOOH for the kind words about the Preset Group’s inaugural DSE mixer in February. We thought it went off well and obviously others agree. Many people have been asking me about the DSE 2011, so I …
Talent Pool: Digital signage software pioneer Drew Topel December 13, 2010 by Super UserPioneer is a term that gets used pretty liberally in this sector, but it actually applies to Drew Topel – who has been around digital signage for more than a decade and through circumstances out of his control is now looking around for a good new challenge. When Haivision acquired CoolSign this fall, the usual …
How digital signage and mobile can play nice: webinar December 10, 2010 by Super UserPreset’s wicked-smart David Weinfeld is doing a webinar for the Digital Signage Federation next week called Mobile and Digital Signage are Allies, not Adversaries. It’s Dec. 16 at 1 pm EST. The rise of mobile applications and smartphones shouldn’t stir fear in the minds of digital signage executives. It should enhance their optimism about digital signage …
LG's US structure intact despite global switch-ups December 3, 2010 by Super UserThere must have been a bunch of speculation and uncertainty out there to prompt LG to issue a “News Alert” to effectively reiterate that nothing’s changed in its US display business operations. This just popped up in my Inbox: In the wake of reports about a global corporate restructuring affecting the LG Electronics Business Solutions …
