Dave Haynes

iPad on Ulitzer There were two kinds of technology companies issuing press releases today. Goofball ones that were somehow oblivious to Apple's planned announcement, and thought it was just another day and their stuff would get the usual attention. And those who watched the announc... (more)

New Media on Ulitzer Something I read reminded me that this blog was coming on four years. According to my old WordPress and my current Joomla admin thingdoodles, I have done 1,600 or so posts to date, or about one a day, including weekends and holidays. I don't really take adv... (more)

IMAGE: ACCESS HOLLYWOOD  Ok, I honestly like what PumpTop TV is doing with its content. I'm not sure the mix is right, but I admire that they have thought beyond the ill-founded notion that news headlines and the weather are the Path to viewer recall glory on DOOH screens. But... (more)

 Dmitry at Ingram has pulled the pieces together as he always does and booked our spot and found a sponsor for the February edition of the Toronto Digital Signage Mixer event. on Feb. 9th. Chief Mounts has stepped up as sponsors and they will have some of their gear around to loo... (more)

 From Marketing magazine online: Four Toronto high schools have new digital screens in their halls thanks to a pilot project between the school board and Onestop Media Group. The screens mainly display content produced by and for students, but will include some third-party messag... (more)

Still cranky about the digital signage is a privacy Chernobyl report. Haroon Mirza from CognoVision sent me a note saying they'd seen the report (they are prominently mentioned as being among the evil-doers) and noted his company is and always has been very big on privacy. They la... (more)

  The California-based World Privacy Forum has taken a deep dive on the privacy implications of digital signage networks, in a report by Pam Dixon called The One-Way-Mirror Society. I have very mixed feelings about the report. On one hand, it is a deep, pretty exhaustively resea... (more)

Digital Signage Expo has announced the 22 companies that are finalists for the 2010 Apex Awards, which are put together by the event and judged by a panel of five industry journalists from Digital Signage Magazine, Digital Signage Today, PRO AV Magazine, Sound & Communications an... (more)

  There's a great post up in Advertising Age about why most digital creative is ineffective. It is written by an advertising effectiveness consultant so it is in his interest to declare most of the stuff out there needs re-thinking, but what he suggests is valid and entirely rele... (more)

 Thanks to Dirk Hülsermann at OVAB Europe for flagging and posting this note about encouraging research from Germany, as done by Nielsen. We're starting to see more and more networks sharing their numbers, and it helps the sector as a whole when there are good stories to tell, an... (more)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICpM3ItIhI0 An industry friend sent me a note about the TVBGone universal remote control, which allows users to turn off just about anyone's TV. He joked it was a killer digital signage app, as in killing screens. It reminded me about what the Gizmod... (more)

 A few months ago there was what seemed like the strangest possible RFP from the Toronto District School Board, looking for a company to install a digital signage network in schools, on its own nickel. The curious part was that ads were not going to be allowed on the screens, whi... (more)

UPDATE; Well, the free tickets didn't quite disappear as quick as a Taylor Swift concert, but they did indeed go fast. We stretched the RSVP number to 160 for the mixer on Feb. 23rd, and that's now fully subscribed. We have people coming from all over the place, and my guess is ... (more)

A series of very simple hi-rez video spots are available now for download that help continue to drive awareness and donation for the relief effort in Haiti. Network operators can use to help direct funds to Red Cross groups in the US and internationally. The downloads are avail... (more)

Right before Christmas the Maryland integrator Noventri issued a strange "off-white paper" about the sorry state of the digital signage industry and how buyers were being duped by false claims and how much of what's being done out there is wrong and ineffective. I wrote about it... (more)

The Buried Life is a new MTV series based on an earlier documentary about four Canuck college students from Victoria, BC who do their own "bucket list" of things they need to do before they die. Given that they are still just young pups, they are getting a serious head-start on ... (more)

 Stratacache was exhibiting this week at NRF and the company announced a new product that SEEMED like it was pretty interesting and really well-suited to retail. But the release did not come with any visual aids to help get my feeble mind around what the units looked like and did... (more)

This will probably be the only time in my life I can write about spending six hours hanging out in a bar and leaving not even the slightest bit tipsy. I had a meeting before the latest Toronto digital signage mixer so we ghathered at the venue at four and did our thing, and then ... (more)

When I was at InfoComm this spring I happily took advantage of press privileges and parked my butt and my gear in the media lounge down a back hallway of the event center. The halls were filled with private meeting and demo rooms, and I kept walking by a sign for something calle... (more)

Final reminder the Toronto mixer goes off tonight. A decent (at least in size) crowd is expected. Starts at 6:30, though I have a meeting downtown and will be there quite a bit earlier. Address: Six Steps Restaurant & Lounge 55 Colborne Street T - 416.504.4800 http://sixsteps... (more)