I’m kinda breaking my own podcast rule here by interviewing someone for a second time, but Burr Smith has been a busy guy lately – buying companies and fighting patent trolls. I spoke with the CEO and owner of BroadSign a couple of years ago, but it was more than time for an update chat given recent events. […]
Guest Post: Derek DeWitt, Visix Derek DeWitt Back in December, Senior Business Consultant for Microsoft and co-founder of Techincon, Rashan Dixon, wrote an article for Entrepreneur listing five business trends he thought would continue to rise in 2019. Coming up on the midpoint of the year, we can see that his predictions were pretty spot on. […]
Atlanta-based CMS software company Visix is going to showcase new a new voice-activated wayfinding application in a couple of weeks at its InfoComm 2019 booth in Orlando. “This is the next step in audience interaction,” says Jill Perardi, creative services manager for Visix. “People have embraced Voice User Interface technologies like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant, and are eager for more. […]
A new interactive digital artwork at the Barbican in London uses camera sensors and a big digital display to generate unique digital forms of people who visit an exhibit called AI: More Than Human. At the entrance to the exhibition, the visitor is greeted by a screen which acts as a mirror, reflecting a unique synthetic form. […]
Guest Post: Christina Condomaros, Yodeck Christina Condomaros Smaller screens for digital signage probably isn’t something you think of as effective. I mean, bigger is better, right? But smaller screens could be the perfect showstoppers – and money makers. […]
Capital Networks’ Kelly Smith and the Toronto chapter of the Digital Signage Federation have organized the second in what is planned as a running series of breakfast mixers. The June 6th event is focused on Digital In Dining, and features people from McDonalds and Aramark, as well as iGotcha Media. The event is out in Mississauga at Samsung’s Canadian HQ. […]
The great folks at Minneapolis-based Screenfeed have been working on something since last October with the National Center for Mission & Exploited Children in the U.S. Using an API from the center, Screenfeed has built a content feed of kids that are missing, based on the location. […]
16:9 could be an endless supply of re-purposed PR about new industry partnerships, but I read and then ignore most of that news because experience and analytics show readers aren’t much interested either. However, when the biggest digital signage-focused integrator in North America announces a partnership for workplace communications, I get more interested. […]
Here’s a nice example of that whole omnichannel thing actually being put to use – an all-encompassing fitness app called Tona for individuals and gyms that spans everything smartphone screens to leaderboards everyone sees. […]
Guest Post: Mike Kilian, Mvix Many companies are drawn towards using digital signage because it is an effective “mass communication medium” which allows dynamic and frequent content updates. Even though delivering dynamic, targeted content is the hallmark of the digital signage platform, effective communication requires a deep understanding of the audiences and their preferences. […]
There is much fuss out there about the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voting 8-1 to approve outlawing the use of facial recognition software or retention of information obtained through facial recognition software systems. The ordinance still has to clear a second hurdle next week before it would be law. […]
Dan Hagen is a relatively young guy, and a bit of an Energizer Bunny. I know of him as the 10net guy from Vancouver, but I was surprised to learn in a conversation that he has been involved in digital signage since before it was called digital signage. He was a funding founder of Mercury Online Solutions, which in the late 90s and early 2000s was a big player in this business. […]
News feeds from data providers have typically come in one of two ways: raw XML or other feeds that could be flowed into templates; or pre-designed, finished feeds with the look and feel already sorted out. Now Minneapolis-based Screenfeed has added new capabilities that allow top-to-bottom customizability for their customers. […]
The Buffalo-based media and digital signage company inLighten normally keeps a very low profile, but they lifted the veil a little today to celebrate the good deeds of President and CEO Dan Snyder, who has personally donated $100,000 toward the construction of an assisted living/enhanced assisted living and memory care community in the community. […]
Walmart has started testing computer vision and AI in a big way at an “Intelligent Retail Lab” lab on Long Island, outside New York City. The Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y. has 1,000s of overhead cameras tracking the state and movement in the store aisles, as well as standard and interactive digital signage screens explaining the Lab and infrastructure. […]
