We all run into clients that have data on their side of the firewall but they want to publish it on their digital signage which is provided by a web service – like Rise Display Network. Hence the dilemma, sending this data to the hosted digital signage content management server (on the other side of the firewall) goes against most corporate security policies, but with the latest from Opera it could become allot easier to publish that private data as client side web pages that the hosted digital signage shows. Displays within the network display the data no problem whereas a display outside of the network would not be able to get at anything. Digital signage content people happy, IT happy, and everyone keeps the costs to a minimum by fully leveraging cloud computing for their displays. Check it out:
With Unite, users can share photos, music, notes, websites, forums and calendars – but unlike standard web apps, these apps are hosted on the user’s computer.
via Your Browser is Now a Web Server: Opera Includes Opera Unite in Opera 10.10.
If I was an advertising network who provides content to consolidated networks of display owners I would be very interested in the smarts behind this thing:
“Teracent’s ads are automatically created from multiple creative elements and can change according to factors like geographic location and language, as well as the content of the website, time of day, and the past performance of different ads.”
via Google Acquires Teracent: Wants to Offer Smarter Display Ads.
Really like this blog so far! Highly recommend you follow. And the thing I find most interesting is that Dan doesn’t make it available via RSS, or at least I can’t find it, it seems if you want to follow him then Twitter is your only option. Interesting…
“The Russians Used a Pencil is a blog about simplicity. If you have any suggestions for blog entries please don’t hesitate to contact me here. Additionally, don’t forget to follow @RussianPencil on Twitter!”
via The Russians Used a Pencil.
HTML5 and The Future of the Web – Smashing Magazine
Great overview of HTML5 for the lay person – namely me!
Definitely helped me understand the leverage that HTML5 will bring to digital signage. Very exciting. Despite spotty browser support for HTML5 today it is pretty clear that it is strategic to Google and if it enables their apps it is pretty safe to say that Chrome and Chrome OS can be your preferred browser target of your HTML5 applications tomorrow.
Interesting headline:
Microsoft may pay News Corp. to delist from Google | Search – InfoWorld.
Which could have been written:
Microsoft may buy news from News Corp
One implies control of the market and the other implies valuing and purchasing the product that is for sale.
I’m all for paying for content. Content producers, artists and others need to be supported for all of us to benefit from their work. If they can’t support themselves, they can’t produce the content we all want to see.
However, the sale of content should not create a monopoly for the sole purpose of manipulating the market. If content is to be sold, it should be sold freely with no preferential treatment given to one vendor over another.
In this age of transparency trying to control a content source versus providing a better product or service to get access to, or to support content, is never going to work. Let’s hope the headline should have read:
Microsoft may buy news from News Corp
Always on, internet ready, dirt cheap. Hmm…
“A Netbook in our view is just a cheap laptop that runs Windows. We see the smartbook cannibalizing the Netbook. It is a connected 3G device that’s always on, has data always pushed to the device, and all-day battery life. In other words, the smartphone experience,” said Luis Pineda, senior vice president of marketing and product management at Qualcomm CDMA.
via Will the ‘smartbook’ be a better Netbook? | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News.
Somebody tattoo this on my forward front and backwards so that anyone I am talking to sees it and every time I look in the mirror I see it. Please.
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”
via Gall’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Or a digital signage appliance?
But what if there were a new device that costs less than $100 that JUST does cookbooks and other things I need in the kitchen? I would buy one. A Chrome OS is all that’s needed for such a specialized device.
via Why Google Chrome OS has already won.
If your not on edge, challenged and uncomfortable, your complacent. If your complacent you should be really scared. Your a sitting duck. Run, don’t walk.
