One more piece to add to your digital signage “mashup” brought to you by SongVote and as reported by Mashable here.
I can imagine a venue – a work place, campus and just about any place that people gather that plays music either in the foreground as the main attraction or in the background as ambient entertainment. Now, let the people who are in the venue see what’s on, vote for the next song in the queue or add a song to be voted upon, all from your mobile phone, all displayed on your signpost – your digital signage!
Now this is very cool use of an interactive environment to teach us something.
Interesting article in Mashable on Why Schools are Turning to Google Apps. One of the largest growth areas for digital signage is education, and, if education is moving to adopt overwhelmingly Google then this is great news for our next version of our digital management web service, which, if you didn’t already know, we built it on top of the Google App engine.
The adoption of our new solution by an institution that has already moved to Google will be incredibly simple. Fortuitous!
The Wall Street Journal just partnered with Foursquare (the location-based social network) to include their editorial tips and badges in Foursquare – how cool is that! See the full scoop from Mashable here.
I think the next extension of this is to take location based social networking further and put a signpost up to let everyone know that there is more happening right here, right now, then you see in the physical world. There is a digital world happening around this location and you, the customer, passerby should check it out. I think the missing ingredient in location based social networking is the advertising of the virtual world for this physical location.
How neat would it be to have interactive signage in your business that not only show’s your menu, latest video’s, today’s specials, whatever, but it also gives you a quick and easy way to become a fan on Facebook or follow them on Twitter and also show what’s happening right now on Foursquare with your business and maybe your neighbors.
I think this would be one great content gadget for digital signage.
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Google just acquired Labpixes – developers of gadgets for iGoogle and other platforms. Good to see continued investment in their gadget infrastructure as this is the primary technology by which we are building out content for our digital signage in our next release.
The cynic doubts
The creator wonders
Both question, test and probe
One discourages
One inspires
Which are you?
The cynic or the creator?
Don’t doubt, wonder
Apples pissed because Google is going after their phone market, and no wonder given this graph. Record quarter revenues of all time and the majority contributor is the iPhone. Talk about coming out of nowhere.
So to retaliate Apple is trying to cut into Google’s advertising revenue by targeting mobile advertisements while maintaining absolute control over their platform – goodbye Flash.
Adobe can’t believe Apple is cutting them out so they are going out of their way to buddy up with Android and funny enough Google doesn’t mind at all if it means throwing another stone at Apple.
And while all of this is going on Facebook just overtook Google in traffic and just released plans to rule the search world by turning everything into one big social network. And if that wasn’t enough they just announced Microsoft Docs for Facebook.
Which given that Microsoft is in last place in just about all of this I’m not surprised at all to see them running to Facebook to get something, anything happening. When’s the last time you used Bing?
And then there’s Twitter, who is just now trying to figure out how to get paid for their service while fighting off Facebook’s new “Like” everything on the web API’s and the very, very, half baked attempts from Google to get social – anyone used Buzz lately after they decided we should all opt in?
Crazy, but for me, very good news. It proves that no one player rules, we still have open competition where just about anyone can come out of nowhere and kick the leader in the pants. This crazy competition will continue to inspire rapid innovation while bringing the cost to you and I lower and lower. Not to mention the entertainment value of all of this.
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Fantastic slideshow of what HTML5 can do for content and as everyone knows our content is going HTML so this is very exciting!
Check it out here.
When night breaks to day a change hangs in the air
It’s the perfect time to think, to see what’s coming
In time they awake, eat, talk, share, plan and break
And the day gets noisy, feedback starts and for awhile it seems it won’t settle
But settle it does, it goes quiet, and in the lull I go for a run
Back I come with a clear head, relax into a chair and work
The day ends, in they come, all with a story to tell
I tie up the loose ends, score the day, plan for tomorrow, close my browser – my factory – and open myself to distraction and interaction
I produced, I didn’t talk about it – I had no commute, no meetings, no office
What a perfect day
We used to look after ourselves
Hunters and gathers became farmers who became factory workers
And we signed up for the collective somewhere along the way
Moved to the lowest common denominator
Abdicated responsibility
And learned it’s not my job
Hit Undo!
There are no more barriers
The factory fits in your backpack
The genius rests in your head – no matter where your head came from
Knowledge is one free hotspot away
Brand you, make you, autonomize you, make your stand
Call a crowd, lead a crowd, disperse a crowd
Take responsibility
Create something
Create you
