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 [...]
How quickly we forget what it used to be like. Remember 2004? What the world was like pre-Youtube, before politicians had “Youtube moments” and babies went viral? Of course not. We take it for granted now. This was essentially my point in commenting on this Atlantic article entitled “Cable TV is Doomed” over the weekend. [...]
According to a new DisplaySearch report, US professional LCDs (as in, not TVs you buy at Sam’s Club) are up 19% so far this year and 41% from 2Q ’09. According to their chart, about 17,000 sold in Sept ’09 compared to 7,500 or so in Jan ’09. The most revealing part of the press [...]
Our web page with information on the Indiana Health Information Network (IHIN, not to be confused with H1N1) just went live. Interestingly, a project called CHC-TV (a project of DynaTek Media) attempted to do a similar thing a year ago, for free. Many people we’ve talked to really disliked CHC-TV, and returned the screens. Their [...]
Last night, I was chatting with Marshall over a Fat Tire (draft!) at our local watering hole and Marshall told me something that I had told him a year or so ago about media in general — I said something to the effect of “If it has an ad on it, I won’t look at [...]
I haven’t ranted in awhile, so here goes. Over the last two weeks, in my travels to Chicago, NYC and Pennsylvania and in-between I pondered where RedPost has been and where we’re headed. The biggest problem that we will solve is that of content-value, but I’ll get to that. I received this postcard in the [...]
We’ve got a new friend visiting us at RedPost World HQ for the next month or so: It’s an HP LD4200 LCD (specs) built for use as a digital sign. High brightness, 1920×1080 full HD resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio — a really nice display. We’re going to be doing some fairly unscientific market research with [...]
I keep talking about “the revolution,” and at some point it will get old. But not yet. Really a lot of the pieces of the revolution are evolutionary; it’s the sum total that makes it a revolution. Take this piece: touchscreen technology, which has lagged in a weird nether-region of little innovation since the early [...]
From the ever-relevant, data-porn FiveThirtyEight blog comes this little graph: Ouch! Having operating margins below 5% for the past 25 years or so that are now very much in the red and trending farther downwards is just…well…bad. And foretells a world of pain as that industry tries to get back into the black. Fortunately, the [...]
I was reading this article over the weekend about the U.S. going to Iran as a resupply route into Afghanistan and up pops this contextual ad for counterterrorism coupons from CouponMountain.com. Really? Needless to say, there are no counterterrorism coupons. There’s no better way to piss off a consumer and have them totally hate you [...]
