Projects: Menuboards In Kentucky C-Stores January 23, 2014 by Dave Haynes This is interesting in a couple of ways. Digital menus are getting really common in the fast food market, but not so much in the grab and go food areas of convenience stores. This is an Ideal Market in Marion, Kentucky – a c-store variant of the Rocket Oil gas station chain. The other …
Eternal Name Game: Dynamic Digital Signage, Screenmedia Still Flat-lined January 22, 2014 by Dave Haynes A couple of months ago I went off on some of the people in this space who insist on creating a new name for something that, good or bad, is just flat baked in. I went back and had a look to see what’s changed since then. Nothing. What’s kinda interesting is that the hotbed …
Want DSE Booth Traffic? Earn It January 22, 2014 by Dave Haynes In three weeks today the big scissors come out and sponsors will cut the giant ribbon to open the 2014 Digital Signage Expo trade show floor, and I’ll walk into the Sands Expo and snoop around trying to figure out what’s truly new, interesting and unique. If you are a vendor, you will have a …
Screenfeed Has Automated Sochi Content At Start Line January 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes This looks like a smart, timely and sticky content plan for February. Minneapolis-based Screenfeed has a set of three content feeds for the Sochi Winter Olympics (did I just infringe some rights thing by typing that???). There’s news in pictures, video footage and medal standings. The one-time feed fee starts at $20 a player, and …
LogMeIn Will LogYouOut If You’re Hooked On Free January 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes If you are digital signage network operator that uses the free version of the remote access software LogMeIn to get at your PCs in the field, you should know the Boston company just announced that free version is going away. From the company website: As you might have seen, today we began notifying users that …
Preset Mixer 2014: A Look At The Numbers January 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes I just sent off the annual Preset Group Mixer Name Badge spreadsheet to the event planner and, from there, the printers. The attendee list is global, but as always tilted in a massive way to North America (as I am sure DSE is, in general terms). Here’s the attendee breakdown. The numbers are off because …
GSTV CEO On Outcast-Gilbarco Deal: Different DNA Will Be Challenge January 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes The recent news that a fuel dispenser firm (Gilbarco) had acquired a media firm (Outcast) that puts ad screens on top or in the pumps was pretty interesting. In its immediate wake, the CEO of Outcast’s prime competitor offered to pass along his point of view. I was way out of town, so I asked …
Sneak Peek: World’s Biggest Indoor LED Ad Board January 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes It looks like the world’s largest indoor LED ad media board is about ready to permanently switch on and start making money for JC Decaux and the operators of central London’s Waterloo rail station. Called Waterloo Motion, the board is 40 metres long by 3 metres high, or for the metric-challenged, roughly 130 ft by …
Zeroing In On Our Disrupted Future January 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes I’m on the phone later this week to walk through the topics and orchestration of a seminar planned for Day 1 at Digital Signage Expo – a good one for people who want to know what’s coming and what it means. Session S13, from 4 to 5 on the 12th, is bluntly called: DIGITAL SIGNAGE …
One Pi + One Nerd = One Digital Sign For Kitchen January 20, 2014 by Dave Haynes San Francisco engineer/developer Brendan Nee got himself a little sub-$50 Raspberry Pi micro PC, played around with it, and came up with a real-time transit arrivals display … for his kitchen. Writes Nee on his blog: This shows the real-time arrival predictions for the transit routes near me, a map of the stops, the weather, and …
