WordPress As A Digital Signage Platform August 2, 2013 by Super User I’m a huge WordPress fan and heavy user, with multiple blogs (like this one) and websites running off the web content management system. But I never really thought about it being used as the foundation platform for a digital signage network. Then I traded emails with Nate Jones – who has taken WordPress and used …
Almost $100M Later, Wireless Ronin Suggests Its Now Profitable August 2, 2013 by Super User Wireless Ronin’s latest financials suggest the digital signage software company is finally starting to do business like a normal company, coming off a quarter when it was kinda sorta actually but not really profitable. The company has reported that Q2 2013 marked the company’s “first quarter of profitability on a non-GAAP basis,” with revenue up …
DPAA Renews Drive For Content, Ops Standards; Issues Survey August 1, 2013 by Super User The Digital Place-based Advertising Association, with BroadSign’s help, has sent out a survey to its members and the larger ecosystem with a goal of establishing some standards that would, in theory, better inform and equip creative agencies and marketers who want to use the Digital Out Of Home medium. “Content producers require an intuitive way …
If A VP Sales Is Hired, Does Anyone Care? Nope. July 31, 2013 by Super User I was trading emails Tuesday with an industry friend, and explaining why I wasn’t covering an announcement from his company. It wasn’t personal, I said. I just didn’t think it was all that interesting, as news goes, and doubted I was alone in that perspective. It got me thinking about reader patterns, and the type …
Research Team Adds Touch Overlay To Print Poster; Makes Interactive July 30, 2013 by Super User The conventional wisdom is that digital will continue to inexorably replace paper signage, but a research team in the UK has come with something like a hybrid. They’ve made paper interactive. As PSFK reports: Novalia is a team of seven scientists, programmers and designers from the UK – all of whom are interested in turning paper into …
Monster Media Acquires LocaModa July 30, 2013 by Super User Monster Media has bought LocaModa in a deal that sees the Orlando-based digital out of home media company better equipped to add social media integration, not to mention smarts, to its offer via the small but respected Boston company. Stephen Randall, who founded LocaModa back in something like 2005, will now be the Executive VP …
In Digital Signage, Uptime Rules July 29, 2013 by Super User There is a fast casual restaurant on the departures level at Oliver Tambo airport in Johannesburg, South Africa that I have walked past at least a half dozen times in the last three months. The menu boards, any time I looked, never showed more than floating screen savers. On a video wall I was just …
Scala, Outform Release Android Digital Signage Solution July 25, 2013 by Super User Software company Scala and Miami-based display integrator Outform have joined the now long list of companies that have put Android digital signage offers on the market. In this case, an Outform iDisplay media player is running Android in combination with Scala’s Enterprise software. Says a release: iDISPLAY’s Model UID0382 Media Player has been specifically designed …
Startup Thirdshelf Lets Retailers Easily Appify For The Sales Floor July 23, 2013 by Super User Retailers who want to get their pots and pans, or whatever they sell, onto app-driven tablets for staff can find themselves conflicted on exactly how to do that. The default option is to get an app development team to build one and get it approved and loaded in app stores. If the retailer has a …
SmartBomb Drops New Mobile-Digital OOH Plan July 19, 2013 by Super User There’s a good debate to be had about what’s the best bridge to build between networked displays and handsets, and what’s on that bridge in terms of content. I never, ever got the whole check-in thing and it’s an activity that has largely passed (though I still see Tweets from people who think me and …
