Last week's article on Digital Signage Mergers, Acquisitions and Bankruptcies generated a lot of commentary, some of which either corrected or clarified the observations I made in the post. Richard Lebovitz from Digital Signage Expo also yielded furthe...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Today's post is light on words but heavy on visuals. Well, one visual anyway. You see, I've been working on updating our series about how to make great content for digital signage. In the process, I decided to whip up a little graph for those folks who...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Dmitry over at Ingram sent me this Tweet last week “When will @RiseVision stop teasing and release their Google-based platform for #DigitalSignage?”. At my age I don’t get accused of being a tease that often, okay, never, so I got quite the chuckle from this (don’t get any ideas Dmitry!) and I realized it was [...]Click here to sign up for our free digital signage web service.(seriously, FREE, GRATIS, NADA, and it doesn't expire, really)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Renting movies has become such much easier especially when you have a oovie kiosk. I saw one at a petrol station and thought to myself what a “great idea”. Basically, the kiosk allows you to rent the latest dvd movies and the process is really simple. All you do is select the movie from a [...]
Sunday, September 26, 2010
We recently received the first digital signage magazine published by an Australia company (alchemedia publishing) and this is really a good sign of the growth of digital signage in Australia. The great thing about the magazine was the case studies of digital signage implementations of local business in Australia. There is also the traditional advertisements [...]
Sunday, September 26, 2010
During the past few weeks, I've run into not one, not two, but three companies who are considering writing their own digital signage software. From scratch. We noted this phenomenon several years ago, when investigating the make-vs-buy question for kio...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
For a software company, we spend a surprising amount of time working with content. We don't make a lot of content in house -- hardly any, in fact -- but we're constantly testing, tracking and qualifying new technical formats and creative experiments in...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
While 2010 still finds us in the midst of a significant recession, the volume of deals being done in the digital signage industry is growing. These days, it's hard to go to a restaurant, hotel or retail store that isn't using some kind of place-based d...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
About 18 months ago, just as the true scope of the economic crisis was becoming known, many in our industry wondered how a global downturn would impact the adoption, acceptance and growth of digital signage and related technologies. Many predicted a ne...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Recently we have been getting a lot of questions in regards to users who want to build their own Gadgets. Before starting work on any sort of Gadget, a Developer should have a thorough understanding of the Google Gadget API. To ensure your Gadget works as expected in the Rise Vision Platform, Developers should get [...]Click here to sign up for our free digital signage web service.(seriously, FREE, GRATIS, NADA, and it doesn't expire, really)
Thursday, September 23, 2010
This week the Retail Expo was held in Sydney Australia from the 20 – 22 September 2010. Unfortunately we were not able to exhibit this year due to various projects and the workload, but we did decide to spend a bit of money on advertising in the inside retailing magazine which gets distributed at the [...]
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Building out a digital signage network takes a lot of capital -- there's no doubt about that. And for many companies, the challenge of raising enough money to get a network started is matched in difficulty only by the subsequent tasks of raising follow...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Earlier this week I participated in a conference call with a writer who is fairly new to our industry. He posed a simple question: "why is the digital signage industry so enamored with advertising?" My immediate answer was, "beats the hell out of me." ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
For the most part, I've noticed that when we're selling kit to a client who's going to install and operate their own digital signage network, they don't really give the media player hardware a second thought. As long as the price is right, it's small e...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Hang screens. Connect screens to Internet. Sell screen time to interested parties. It all sounds so easy, right? Yet while we've all heard a thousand variations on this theme, time and the free market have rendered 99% of them dead and gone. Now if we ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A few weeks ago, Paul Flanigan posed the question of whether the digital signage industry is really an industry at all. He put up a short survey on his blog, got back a good handful of responses, and ultimately decided that no, we're not an industry. P...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
While chatting with Crisie Charan-Thomas from the Strategy Institute, I asked her which topics she expects to be the most popular at their upcoming Digital Signage Investor Conference. The event always draws a mix of starry-eyed startups, owners of exi...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
With Beta Training in full force for our existing resellers, one of my last training sessions stood out as the best so far. Working with Avi Tal, President of Streamline Media LLC, he had some fantastic things to say about the Rise Vision Platform, and how he plans to use it in the future. Avi [...]Click here to sign up for our free digital signage web service.(seriously, FREE, GRATIS, NADA, and it doesn't expire, really)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
digital signage is becoming quite popular for the real estate industry. I’ve seen quite a number of digital signage implementations from various companies and they all to appear quite effective. Some also includes touchscreens but what I found quite amusing was that people still don’t really know how to use these. I saw a lady [...]
Monday, September 20, 2010
One important aspect of Digital Signage is Video. HTML 5 offers a lot more options with video, and Vimeo’s HTML5 video player really is fantastic. This 2 minute video describes how to get Embed code from Vimeo.com to use in your Presentation, to create a really impressive video gadget that acts as an interactive slideshow [...]
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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