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Hire digital signage equipment
Quite a number of companies are now giving their customers the option of hiring digital signage equipment instead of purchasing it outright. There are quite a number of benefits for doing this and these are:
1. Tax reasons – for leased or rented equipment you can claim the full cost as an expense
2. If the equipment is rented, then you have the option to upgrade your hardware once you contract has ended
3. No initial upfront costs – some businesses don’t have the upfront costs and would have their money invested in purchasing actual products to sell
There are many more reasons but we would like to hear from you what these reasons are.
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Wave goodbye to Google Wave integration with digital signage
Last year we talked about how the new Google product called Google wave could be integrated with digital signage (http://www.digitalsignageblog.com/2009/10/30/thinking-of-ways-on-how-to-integrate-google-wave-with-digital-signage/) and the possibilities were endless. I’m so sad to hear that Google have decided to discontinue the Wave product. It appears not everyone jumped on board with using this product and hence the reason why they have canned it. It was a good idea, the product seemed promising but it now has all come to an end. Oh well, I guess all the hype about the next email system confused everyone.
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Are you displaying World Cup results on your digital signage network?
It’s World Cup fever….
We decided to poll the digital signage community and wanted to ask how many of you are displaying world cup results on your digital signage network.
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Should digital signage operators pay TAX for digital signage screens?
I just read on the digitalsignagearticles.com that a few people have posted a twitter post about an Italian Tax on digital signage. Basically the article is about a tax (100 euro per year per screen/location) that needs to be paid by network operators in Italy to the government. I haven’t really seen that many implementations in Italy but it sounds like their Government is trying to cash in the digital signage industry. Why – because the Government can see that $$$ and revenues businesses are making from advertising on digital screens.
I’m pretty sure that this digital signage TAX will flow through many of our countries and operator or the owners of the screens will be expected to pay the government for having a screen at the front of their store facing the public areas.
So let’s start a poll to see what your responses are.
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Feel free to submit your answer as a comment.
Category: Digital Signage Blog News
Australian Uni Students develop rival to Microsoft Surface
I came across an interesting article on TheAustralian.com.au website (I was reading the article from my Blackberry via RSS) and I wanted to share this with everyone – especially after we posted an article on the weekend talking about the Microsoft Surface. What makes this article interesting is the fact that there may be a rival system (application is called Focus) to the Microsoft Surface. According to the article the application uses cameras to interpret gestures and movements made across a table to control an onscreen computer interface. In this case it can be a table like the Microsoft Surface. What’s more interesting is that the hardware costs less than $5000 (consists of a projector, a laptop, a motion sensor and a table) and it integrates with the Apple iPhone.
This may be a good opportunity for us to interview these students if we get a chance since they are local students.
Have a read of the article here and there’s also a video explaining how the system works.
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Weekend Fun: Wonder Wheel for digital signage
This weekend I decided to play around with the google search features and stumbled across the “Wonder Wheel”. So what I did was I typed the search term “digital signage” in the google search bar. Google displayed the most relevant websites related to this search term, in Australia our advertise me and Digital Signage portal are on the 1st page and we’re pretty happy about this result.
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Techie Question: Using a DVI to VGA convertor with a VGA CAT5E or CAT6 extenders, does this work?
For those techies out there or for someone who has already tried this, does a DVI to VGA converter work with a VGA extender.
So as an example, we have a digital signage player or PC that has a DVI port ONLY. We plug a DVI to VGA extender, so the output is VGA. We then use a pair of VGA to CAT5E or CAT6 extenders and connect the other end to the monitor that is VGA. Does this work?
We would like to hear other techies out there what the result would be or whether this is technically possible.
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3D modelling and animation – content for digital signage
If you’ve seen the movie Avatar then you should know that I’m refeering to when I mention about 3D. Yes, 3D technology is now becoming more affordable but importantly its catching the attention of the digital signage industry. Various screen manufacturers have released 3D screens that do not require the use of 3D glasses. As more of these screens are being installed in retails stores or corporate offices, businesses will need 3D content to place on these screens.
Category: Digital Signage Blog News
Digital Signage software: Firefox 3.6
For those of you who didn’t know, there are quite a number of digital signage players in the market that are using Mozilla Firefox on the Linux platform as their default browser to play content. To the viewer, this does not become apparent since the developers cleverly designed the application to run in full screen so when content is played you don’t see the tool and menu bars.
One of the many reasons why most digital signage companies are using Firefox compared to Internet Explorer is due to the fact Firefox is open source and comes with many add-ons. One of these add-ons is the ability to run the application in Kiosk or Digital Signage mode. The other obvious point is that it’s free and comes packaged with many Unix based OSes.
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The importance of NTP in digital signage
First of all, Happy New Year to all our readers – we hope you had a relaxing break and are energised for another year of digital signage. To kick off the year, we decided to engage our techie community and discuss about the importance of NTP.
NTP stands for Network Time Protocol and is commonly used to synchronise a computer’s/digital signage player‘s date and time with a specific time source server. It can be a hardware based GPS time source server from Symmetricon which I’ve used in the past, an Internet NTP server – see ntp.org for more information, or even your local Windows Active Directory Server can be used as a time server. The most challenging part when using NTP is ensuring that your actual source server has the correct date and time.
Most digital signage businesses should know what I’m talking about since ensuring the Content Management Server and digital signage player’s date and time are all in synch is crucial for any large digital signage network especially when used for scheduling content.
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Weekend Fun: Gigya toolbar
This weekend we thought we’d further connect with the social community and added the Gigya toolbar. What this means is that our readers will now be able to use the toolbar to share our posts on their Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Myspace, Email and more.
The toolbar looks like this and you will notice it at the end of the page:
Gigya Toolbar
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Thinking of ways on how to integrate Google Wave with Digital Signage
Google has recently invited selected google account members to the “google wave”, and just recently I was wondering how Advertise Me could integrate this new communication tool with digital signage. Fortunately, the digital signage players we use will allow us to quite easily integrate google wave as the system is web capable.
If I understand how google wave works correctly, it would mean that updating content will be easier than before and it may also mean that a CMS (Content Management Server) may no longer be needed. I’ll stop here and keep pondering and brainstorming.
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Weekend fun: How much for the www.digitalsignageblog.com?
This week we were approached by an individual who was interested in purchasing one of our domain names. We are not too sure what their intentions were but we thought that for this weekend fun post we would ask our readers how much do they think this domain name (www.digitalsignageblog.com) is worth. By the way… we are NOT selling this domain name.
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Weekend Fun: Using funny videos for your digital signage content
It’s another weekend so you know what that means? It’s time for some weekend fun. For this weekend fun post, I thought I’d look around for a fun video to post. Generally, most of the content for digital signage is serious (depends on the environment) but I believe that sometimes it’s those funny ads that stand out and makes it go viral. So here’s a Youtube video clip of a McDonald’s funny advertisement:
What I found most interesting about this video from McDonalds is that it doesn’t matter which language the video is in, as long as it portrays the intended message to the audience then in my eyes it’s definitely a sure winner!
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Weekend Fun: Digital Signage that follows you
It’s another weekend and for this particular post we’re going to look at a fun and innovative digital signage solution in Taoyuan Airport. Basically, as you’re waling down the duty free alley in the Taoyuan airport Terminal 2, you will notice that an advertisement follows you. I’m not sure whether the ads as targeted specifically based on the gender or characteristics of the person walking past but do you find this too intrusive? Have a look at the video:
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Translator on the DigitalSignageBlog.com
For those of you that didn’t know, we have provided you the facility to use the Google translator to translate these blog posts in different languages. At the moment, you can translate these posts in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Chinese Traditional. So no matter what language you speak, click on the flag at the top right hand column and Google will translate the post for you.
Happy reading… in whatever language you read.
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German
Viel Spaß beim Lesen … in welcher Sprache, die Sie lesen.
¡Feliz lectura … en cualquier idioma que leer.
Bonne lecture … quelle que soit la langue que vous lire.
Buona lettura … in qualsiasi lingua che si leggono.
Portuguese
Boa leitura … em qualquer idioma que você lê.
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Coca-cola goes interactive with digital signage vending machines
We all knew this was going to happen and it eventually did. Coca-cola has released digital signage vending machines which are interactive. Here’s a video to show you what we mean:
And here’s a video of someone actually using the vending machine… I like it how he had to press the right arrow several times before it scrolled to the right and it also has the Pay Pass payment option (I haven’t really seen this been used in Australia):
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Digital Signage and Google Chrome OS
Today’s great news is that Google is planning to release it’s own OS called Google
Image source: www.google.com
Chrome OS and will compete against the almighty Microsoft Enterprise. We believe this is great news for the digital signage community because of the following reasons:
1. It’s Open Source and will be free. Moving towards an open source OS, will provide a significant savings to you and your clients.
2. According to Google, the Chrome O.S is fast and efficient. This is perfect for digital signage.
3. It’s lightweight – you will be able to install this on a netbook and run your digital signage application.
4. Its secure – like the Google Chrome browser, Google has designed the security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. This means spending less time patching!!!
5. Designed for the web – since most companies are now moving towards SaaS then this is a perfect match.
We look forward to testing various digital signage software on the Google Chrome and we can’t wait to get our hands dirty.
And a final note: Thanks google for making our life easier and cheaper for everyone!
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Using your Iphone as a mobile digital signage player?
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This may sound a bit ridiculous but has anyone thought about using your Iphone as a mobile digital signage player? I mean lets think about this, if people can use the Iphone to watch movies and video clips why can’t it be used as an integrated digital signage player. The unit can be easily connected to the Internet and it also has a touch screen so really its perfect for interacting with your intended audience. With the sheer number of Iphone users out there, setting a digital signage network can be easily established.
All we need now is a digital signage Iphone application… and my guess is that someone is already developing one.
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Digital Signage and Google Trends
Out of curiosity I decided to perform a Google trend search for the term Digital Signage – the exact term “Digital Signage” was performed to see what the trend has been over the years. From the image on the left, you can clearly see that the number of people searching for this term has increased over the years and I believe it will constantly continue to grow. But what I was more surprised from the information Google Trends provided was the regions that provided the highest searches. The majority of these regions where the Asian countries.
Here are the results:
Regions
1. Taiwan
2. Malaysia
3. South Korea
4. South Africa
5. Singapore
6. India
7. Canada
8. New Zealand
9. Australia
10. United States
From these results can one assume that there is a higher demand (based on search trends) for digital signage in Taiwan or Malaysia (I’m quite surprised to see malaysia being ranked second on the list) compared to countries like New Zealand, Australia and the United States?
Feel free to submit your answer as a comment.
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Are you from the digital signage industry?
Today we thought we’d run a poll to see how many people who visit our blog are actually from the digital signage industry. So if you have 2 spare seconds we hope you can participate in this poll – yes it literally just takes 2 seconds.
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