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More on how a tablet, slate, or whatever your preference, could change how we work and play. This article doesn’t touch my favorite subject – how does a tablet impact digital signage – but it doesn’t take much imagination to read between the lines. Take a read!
via Five Ways Apple’s Tablet May Change the World – BusinessWeek.
I’ve harped on in the past on what the convergence of the mobile phone and digital signage could mean but now add the slate to that mix. One has to wonder if the stationary display – so called digital signage – will be relevant, or if proximity – opt in – display on your personal device will be the wave to ride. No answers, just wondering…
“Next year is shaping up to be the year of the slate computer”
How long before digital signage as the primary medium becomes digital displays that augment, or are secondary to personal / mobile displays? I think it is happening faster than we think and it is coming from a wave of technology that today has nothing to do with what we have traditionally called the digital signage industry.
Twitter acquires geo-enabled API provider Mixer Labs
Instead of the “where” of the tweet “earthquake” how about “at the mall”, “hungry”, “at office”, or “looking for a blue dress” and the mall map becomes available to guide you to what you want and the stationary displays show where you are, restaurants and their specials near you appear and greet you at the door – and they know what you like, the office informational displays greet you and show you the metrics you are most interested in before returning to their standard loop and photo’s of blue dresses that are available near you and for order over the web scroll on by on your phone.
For those that fear the new order and have privacy concerns – it’s all on an opt in basis only! No minority report retina scans!
Are we finally getting close to no longer having to support proprietary, OS dependent, always changing and very finicky TV Tuner cards for digital signage?
Is YouTube Ready for Primetime? Google Wants to Stream TV, for a Fee.
via Google Wants to Offer Streaming TV on YouTube–For a Fee | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD.
Interesting situation. The artists and the community (beautifulcity.ca) are lobbying under the tag line “Too many billboards and not enough art in our city” and the Out-of-Home Marketing Association of Canada concluded that the tax is more than the industry earns in total and as you can imagine they vehemently oppose it.
With the long awaited vote in Toronto to put a $10.4 million tax on billboards – with the funds destined for art and beautification of the city – expected to begin at 9:30 a.m. EST, this morning…
via DailyDOOH » Blog Archive » Toronto This a.m.: Arguments And the Vote.
I’m a Toronto resident and they are right. There are too many billboards and not enough art in our city. However, I am not a huge fan of taxes, especially tax on business as I feel you don’t want to tax (impede) the economic engine that provides the personal incomes which should in their turn be taxed. But that is another long debate that doesn’t belong here. Now having said that, it strikes me that a sweeping statement by the billboard industry that a 10.4 million tax is more than their industry earns seems pretty much impossible to me and given that it reeks of mathematical manipulations aimed to make their point I wouldn’t have lead with that statement, I don’t think anyone is going to buy it. It probably hurts their cause and damages their credibility more than supports it.
A tax on billboards to address the city’s lack of leadership in the arts community is like putting a band aid on a slit throat. It doesn’t solve the problem, it just prolongs the agony. This city needs to address how they spend money. They need to invest more in the arts, more on the services that they provide to their constituents and less on the bureaucracy that adds little to no value. They further need to strengthen their zoning laws and make them consistent so that the city doesn’t turn into one big walking advertisement devoid of culture and beauty unless of course it is one very cool advertisement which I would prefer not to leave to chance. This city, my city, “Toronto” needs to stop looking for new and creative taxes to support the lack of leadership that we face. I’m all for supporting the tag line “too many billboards and not enough art in our city” but I think a tax does nothing to correct the cause that put us in this situation and it just further hurts Toronto as a preferred hub of industry.
If you believe in open sourced systems that are extensible and leverage the content of a non-proprietary internet then this announcement is in some ways a short term setback but in the long run everyone, consumers and developers, are going to be so much better off. Bring on HTML5. We can’t wait!
As one Google rep told the L.A. Times, “We are excited that much of the technology in Gears, including offline support and geolocation APIs, are being incorporated into the HTML5 spec as an open standard supported across browsers, and see that as the logical next step for developers looking to include these features in their websites.”
Believe us Google, no one is looking forward to the cross-browser, cross-OS implementation of HTML5 as much as we are.”
With the addition of Direct2D GPU acceleration into IE9 and now Firefox and the previous inclusion of accelerometer support there is not much difference left between an application versus browser viewing experience. Bodes well for light weight display signage displays everywhere…
via Programmer adds IE 9 graphics acceleration to Firefox — Engadget.
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.
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.
