From the excellent MarketingCharts blog, a charts: It’s a bit hard to read, but of ad dollars spent on digital media, digital out-of-home (aka digital signage) makes up less than 1%. On the positive side, that means the playing field is wide open. And another chart in this series reveals that 100% of digital out-of-home [...]
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Here’s a link to M-CAM’s report, “Intellectual Property Analysis of Michael J. Strand Online Networked Signage Patent: US 7,685,259,” that they took on this week as part of their ongoing Patently Obvious™ series: As of April 2010, according to the electronic output of the USPTO’s Public PAIR system reports on patent assignment, Michael J. Strand [...]
M-CAM is readying their Patently Obvious™ report on U.S. patent 7,685,259, to be released in the next day or so (I ranted about it earlier, it’s the patent that’s got a lot of SAAS digital sign vendors scared). In the meantime, here’s an overview of what the Patently Obvious reports are all about: Patently Obvious™: [...]
Ok, so following up on yesterday’s post I’m going to start digging into US Patent 7,685,259, the very obvious software patent for a “Locally responsive kiosk signage from on-line source,” using M-CAM’s Doors software (some of which, coincidentally, I helped write, to pat my own back). The biggest way that these kind of crap patents [...]
There’s all kinds of crazy out there in the world, in all forms. One of those forms is software patents, which are, with few exceptions, dumb. The Amazon one-click patent is a good example of something that’s “patently obvious” to borrow a phrase. In a past life as an intern, I worked at M-CAM, a [...]
A fun round-up of Digital Signage Expo 2010 gossip by Adrian Cotterill over at DailyDOOH. My favorite: If there really was a USD 1,000 fine levied by the LVCC for anyone caught using an unofficial / unlicensed wireless router then there were at least a dozen brave souls that we saw using 3G/Gg wireless routers [...]
…will be when, at Digital Signage Expo, all signs such as the below will actually be digital. I’m just saying, there’s nothing as simple, quick to install, and cheap as paper. Note that the arrows on these signs swivel for maximum flexibility.
Here at Digital Signage Expo there’s a lot of talk about revolution. You see it on banners, brochures and of course on digital signs. But for the most part, besides being a bit bigger, there’s not too much revolutionary stuff on display. Some new (largely unavailable) display technology. Some more advanced technology (more evolutionary). Some [...]
I’m on my way to Digital Signage Expo this week and spent the weekend with friends in LA. This digital sign was in an LA Metro station. I’ve always thought the Windows notification system was a pretty crappy, inconsistent way to deliver information to a user. Those little bubble things are more annoying than helpful, [...]
