A screen in a newspaper box? Hmmm… June 23, 2007 by Dave HaynesMy irrational fear of electrocuting myself, coupled with my limited IQ, has kept me from joining the community of propeller-heads who like to stick computers and screens into weird places. The gadget blog Gizmodo shows them the odd time, and today there was one on there that saw a guy stick a flat panel and a …
Experiential media at InfoComm June 22, 2007 by Dave Haynes I ran into Shaun and Vita from Vancouver’s 2C Visual Communications as my stint at InfoComm was winding down. The couple has been in the digital signage space for several years, making a go of it in a market that still seems fairly sleepy compared to the rest of the continent. They were demo’ing a …
Window-shopping, and buying June 22, 2007 by Dave Haynes If you are walking along one of the tonier blocks in London in the next few weeks you will be able to stop in front of the flagship Ralph Lauren store and do some serious window shopping – using a projected 78-inch touch screen applied to shop glass. USA Today is reporting how the store …
Finally … a company that makes screen covers June 21, 2007 by Dave Haynes I am sitting in LAX waiting for my flight. Bad news is I have a middle seat. The good news is I have a seat. They’re bumping people. The other good news is the ever-hapless folks at Northwest Airlines (I’m not flying them) have not locked down their wireless, so I am sitting out with …
InfoComm Report June 21, 2007 by Dave Haynes So as planned, I spent much of the day hoofing around the Anaheim Convention Center, checking out InfoComm 2007. For the unitiated, this show is aimed at the sytems integrator world and attracts throngs of people from companies who stick screens, speakers, cable, video conferencing systems, custom lighting and on and on into offices and …
Arrrrr, ye scurvy Flash-pirating dogs!!! June 12, 2007 by Dave HaynesIf you’re reading this, you’re probably in the digital signage industry. And you’re probably a pirate. You probably didn’t even know it, probably don’t even have a good “Arrrr Matey!” in you, but you’re a pirate. The great, great majority of the industry’s software solutions providers use Adobe’s Flash player to put out slick, vector-graphic …
Mixer location set June 4, 2007 by Dave HaynesAfter some important research on Friday, involving Harp, I determined a suitable location for the mixer on Thursday. A place called Grace O’Malley’s — which is about as authentically Irish as a Burger King — at 14 Duncan Street, just north of King in the theatre district. Good central location and they have the aforementioned …
LA Times has a look at this biz May 31, 2007 by Dave HaynesThe LA Times has had a run at the digital signage industry, talking to the usual suspects and referencing the usual stats about the expected growth of the business and so on. If you’re in this space already, there’s not much to learn. But the piece, from the Sunday paper, is not a bad primer …
User-generated ads = crap May 29, 2007 by Dave HaynesI have never quite understood the fuss about user-generated ads and content being a substantial piece of the puzzle for digital signage or media in general. A New York Times piece from the weekend, called the High Price of Creating Free Ads, backed up my general suspicion that the vast majority of the work done …
Missing kids = money? May 25, 2007 by Dave HaynesLike most people, I tend to get a little squirrelly when I read about media networks that wrap an advertising or screen deployment around missing kids. There was one a few months ago that was hooking into the Amber Alert system, seemingly as a “how could you refuse?” way to get ad screens installed in …
