Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Chris Lydle, Google October 19, 2016 by Super User This week I am speaking with Chris Lydle, who is the global lead for digital signage and kiosk activity at Google. We had a lengthy, very open chat about the what the technology giant is doing in the relatively small and narrowly defined digital signage market, how its technology fits in, and where things are going. He …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Kurt Dupont, PresentationPoint October 12, 2016 by Super User We’re talking PowerPoint this week, the presentation software that has usually been regarded with abject horror by people who’ve been around the digital signage industry for years. While using PowerPoint templates to generate slides for signage systems is the fast lane to mediocrity, that’s not what Belgium’s PresentationPoint does with its software. For the last couple …
No Fresh Podcast Episode This Week October 4, 2016 by Super User My recording engineer was moving this past week and was/is slammed by other things. He ran out of time to get this week’s podcast episode together for my deadline. And I’m traveling. So … we’ll take an unplanned break and be back to regular episodes next week (Oct. 12th). Already recorded and just needing mastering, …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Levin, Four Winds Interactive September 28, 2016 by Super User This week I’m speaking with David Levin, the co-founder and a bunch of other titles at Four Winds Interactive, a content management software and services company based in Denver. David and I sat down for a chat last week in the Four Winds’ offices, a day before his company’s second annual Forward conference, which attracts …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Ken Sahlin, DOmedia September 21, 2016 by Super User This week, it’s all about advertising. I’m talking to Ken Sahlin, the CEO of DOmedia, a Columbus, Ohio company that’s in the business of putting together media buyers and sellers using software. Ken talks about how the company has developed a set of cloud-based applications that make media planners aware of out of home media they …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Luka Birsa, Visionect September 14, 2016 by Super User This week, I’m speaking with Luka Birsa, the CTO and co-founder of Visionect, a Slovenian tech company focused on solutions that use Electronic Ink. If you’ve got a Kindle or Kobo e-reader, think of that display but used instead for updated bus schedules at stops, or for telling people whether a meeting room is booked …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Wayne Rasor, FASTSIGNS September 7, 2016 by Super User This week, I’m talking to a digital signage evangelist – Wayne Rasor, who runs the digital signage side of the business for FASTSIGNS, a traditional printing company that’s helping its 600-plus franchisees around the world stay competitive by going digital. Based in Dallas, Wayne has a busy gig educating his own company and its franchisees on …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jim Nista, Insteo August 31, 2016 by Super User Jim Nista and I have had lotsa long, interesting talks over trade show cocktails in Las Vegas or Orlando about the state of the industry and what needs to happen, particularly as it relates to content. Unfortunately … or perhaps fortunately, when I really think about it (hic) … they were not recorded. But the …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Brian Fitzpatrick, Revel Media Group August 24, 2016 by Super User Every so often I bump into a company that’s stayed well out of the spotlight, kept its collective heads down, and built up a thriving business – while most of the industry was unaware the company even existed. Consider Revel Media Group, which is based in the greater Salt Lake City area. Revel is a digital signage …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jeff Hastings, BrightSign August 17, 2016 by Super User If you’re looking for concrete evidence that the digital signage business is now doing some serious volume, consider the word on this latest Sixteen:Nine podcast from Jeff Hastings, the CEO of BrightSign. His shipping department is packing and moving roughly 1,000 units a day. Let me repeat that … a day. BrightSign designs, builds and …
