News as it should look on digital signage screens June 17, 2010 by Super UserThere have been encouraging signs lately that we’re seeing the industry slowly but surely move away from over-zoned screen layouts and crawling news tickers to cleaner, much more logical looks. I will continue to argue that in many cases, news headlines are the wrong things to focus on – because news is now everywhere. But …
The perils of Google Alerts June 15, 2010 by Super UserThe thing about Google Alerts for keywords – like digital signage – is that it picks up everything from high quality insights from top industry minds to flotsam from robot sites. And everything in between. It all shows up, all day long, in your email inbox. This morning, a few times, it has picked up …
Strangest pitch line we've read in a while … June 15, 2010 by Super User“Showering visitors with the charm of digital signage applied in an exhibition is only one part of CAYIN’s demonstration at COMPUTEX,” said Ravel Chi, Vice President of CAYIN Technology, making the case for dropping by the company’s booth at the recent COMPUTEX show in Taipei.
InfoComm Day 2 – Impressions June 11, 2010 by Super UserAnd here I sit at Gate B15, getting the heck out of Las Vegas, at least for a while. Nine days on the ground here is tooo much. By about 2 PM walking around the LVCC I was done, but kept on visiting people. I wandered into most corners of the floor, yakking with a …
Digital signage players separated at birth? June 1, 2010 by Super UserNews that Swiss-based Spinitex had done a deal to have its little box run with Scala, and then a dailyDOOH post about Gefen’s little box for InfoComm, got me remembering something i noticed at DSE a few months back. The two little solid state boxes – both of them potentially great for projects that need fanless …
Saskatchewan wireless retailer lights up one of the better digital signage jobs we've yet seen June 1, 2010 by Super UserDmitry Sokolov from Ingram Micro’s Canadian office has been doing a few posts for DailyDOOH lately and he had a good one the other day about a wireless retailer, jump.ca, in Saskatchewan. There are few retail installations, anywhere, that have really seized the opportunity for digital screen installations. I would not have thought one of …
Worst digital signage demo … ever May 24, 2010 by Super UserSo I saw a Tweet about a company I knew, and it led me to a copy/paste “news” portal that had an excerpt, which exposed me to a big button that urged me to “Try our Digital Signage software now …” So I did. Guys, if you harbor even the faintest of hopes that your …
Adcentricity's creative guide required digital signage reading May 20, 2010 by Super UserI downloaded Adcentricity’s new creative guide almost a week ago, but I only had a chance this morning to poke my way around it. To the credit of co-founder Jeff Atley, who pulled the thing together, this is not a guide that says “Add two cups of Adcentricity” and you are good to go. These …
What HTML5 could do in interactive digital signage May 19, 2010 by Super UserSome of the content/magazine demos I have seen for the iPad have been very cool, but I have always been a little bothered by how realistic they were to regularly given the unavoidably high production costs and time needed for these apps. Google has its big developer conference today and one of the publishers trotted …
Ah, the French … a choir of disco-singing Big-Mouth Billy Bass fish on street billboard May 14, 2010 by Super UserOk, not digital. But interactive. And weird as only the French can be weird, as a choir of fish sing Shake Your Booty at a Parisian street corner. Spotted in AdAge, this is actually a campaign for marine life sustainability, using animatronics and a second nearby billboard showing serious stuff.
