Jim Nista and I have had lotsa long, interesting talks over trade show cocktails in Las Vegas or Orlando about the state of the industry and what needs to happen, particularly as it relates to content. Unfortunately … or perhaps fortunately, when I really think about it (hic) … they were not recorded. […]
Many signage software companies have for years offered up design templates and modest app stores to make content creation cheaper and easier for customers, but a new content store being marketed by Long Beach, CA-based content/creative shop Insteo is taking a different approach that says more about where the industry is going, as opposed to where it’s been. […]
For two decades, Adobe Flash was the Holy Grail for designers creating motion graphics for the web and digital signage. Recently, however, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) made HTML5 the new industry standard for digital creative. […]
Adobe announced at the start of this week the formal, albeit slow demise of its much loved and hated multimedia tool Flash. The company is shifting heavily to HTML5, and winding down Flash as a product. When Adobe releases its Creative Cloud update next month, Flash Professional will change its handle to Adobe Animate CC. […]
GUEST POST: Mark Janke, DeviceWorx There’s a reason so many digital signs out there have fingerprints all over them – consumers expect that pretty much any screen they see and use will be interactive, just like their phones and tablets. But only a fraction of the digital signs now operating in the field are set up for interaction. […]
Via AD Age Those software and creative guys doggedly hanging on to Adobe Flash as its main motion graphics playback tool might want to pay attention to the point of view of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which is making HTML5 the new standard for digital creative. […]
I don’t tend to write about minor version releases for software, as only existing clients and almost-there prospects really care. But news from the Israeli firm YCD Multimedia caught my eye. […]
Now you can buy a flat panel display that runs the open source Firefox browser. The first Panasonic VIERA Smart TVs powered by the Firefox OS are now available in Europe, and will be available worldwide in the coming months. Granted, the panels are Smart TVs and not commercial displays, but we all know many, many small business signage installs with TVs. […]
I think there’s a broad school of thought out there that HTML5 is interesting, but visually pretty limited in what it can do in digital signage. It indeed has its limits and is no video replacement, but its ability to drive motion and incorporate video makes it a big step up from the static presentations that represent a lot of menu board systems out there now. […]
I have been blabbering on for anyone that will listen about the possibilities good data visualization has for digital signage. I stress good because a lot of the visually interesting stuff I have seen falls down a little when you try to decode what the information is conveying. In other words, it can look cool, but what does it mean? […]
