First WordPress, Now Joomla Being Used for Digital Signage May 6, 2014 by Super User I wrote last year about a Chicago guy who had figured out a way to turn the WordPress blogging platform into a content management system and presentation platform for digital signage. Now we have someone using the other popular open-source blogging platform – Joomla – to drive screens with scheduled ads. It actually uses a …
Projects: 110 MicroTile Wall Courts Michigan State Hoops Prospects May 6, 2014 by Super User Big time NCAA college hoop recruiting has a lot to do with impressing the hell out of the athlete prospects when they do campus visits, making them leave with the conviction that they want to play college basketball there. That means bling, and in the case of the Michigan State University Spartans, a 30 foot …
3M Officially Bails On Digital Signage Business May 6, 2014 by Super User There was a time when 3M was the genuine deal in the the digital signage software business, but it has been a few years since the company and its product have made any real noise. The last muffled sounds came Monday as the manufacturing giant announced it had sold off “certain assets in connection with …
Bizplay Latest Find In Dutch Digital Signage Hotbed May 5, 2014 by Super User Maybe I just haven’t noticed, and it’s been like this for a while, but The Netherlands seems to have developed into one of those regional hotbeds for digital signage, in the same way Southern Ontario and the Twin Cities did earlier on. The latest of MANY companies I have numbed into that come out of Holland …
Projects: Digital Ceiling In Oakley’s New NYC Flagship May 5, 2014 by Super User Oakley Store, NYC – Demo from Moment Factory on Vimeo. The sports performance company Oakley opened a new flagship store on 5th Avenue in NYC last week, and made heavy, but very different use of digital signage displays. The company hired Montreal’s Moment Factory to create “living, breathing installation, embodying the renegade spirit of Oakley’s …
Worst … Digital Signage Programming … Ever May 4, 2014 by Super User Ok, so maybe there’s something worse out there, but this was gloriously bad. And in my backyard. I was at the local mall the other day picking something up, and noticed this screen on a stick at an optical store entry. 1. They were just taking print ads, that are too busy even for print, and …
Digital Signage App Released For $99 Amazon Fire TV May 2, 2014 by Super User A developer has released an app, based off Rise Vision’s management platform, that turns the new $99 Amazon Fire TV set-top box into a digital signage player. Called My Rise Player, the app is predictably limited in its scope and capability, and has that “I got it to work” feel to it. But the point …
Facebook Makes It Easier To Get Its Social Content To Screens May 1, 2014 by Super User Much of the social media visualization done in digital signage has focused on Twitter feeds and particularly hash tags, but Facebook has released a new API that is intended to draw some of the attention to its own social streams. The Trending, Topic Insights, Topic Feed, and Hashtag Counter APIs were announced Wednesday by Facebook’s Public …
Who Writes This Stuff??? April 29, 2014 by Super User Who on Earth writes this stuff, and better yet, who approves it??? From a breathless email I just got from Intel Intelligent Retail Solutions: The beauty of digital signage is the ability to deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time. To realize this ambitious goal, digital signage needs new technologies …
Shoppers Would Rather Use Displays, Interactive Stations Than Talk To Store Staff: Report April 29, 2014 by Super User Digital devices will be influencing half of all in-store sales by the end of this year, suggest a new report by mega consulting firm Deloitte. Deloitte’s research, based on interviews with more than 2,000 US residents, suggests digital technologies already influence 36 percent or $1.1 trillion of in-store retail sales, and that rate is escalating at a …
