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Deutsche Telekom Out (Off) Home

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

It’s always sad to see screens off… Spotted in the Metro Assent Management Mall (Mecator Center, Duisburg) – a network we believe managed by Deutsche Telekom Out of Home.

POPAI’s (Privacy) Code Of Conduct

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

The Digital Signage Group, the advocacy and standards arm of Point of Purchase Advertising International (POPAI) focusing on the digital signage industry published on Monday the industry’s first code of conduct for the utilization and deployment of consumer tracking research and technology. More than 18 months in development, the code of conduct provides recommendations to […]

#ISE2010 – C-nario Stand

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Hall 12 was once again the main digital signage area of ISE and was heavily traffic’ed via a main thoroughfare between halls. C-nario, Scala and DISE had the three main spots along this thoroughfare. C-nario stationed their CTO Avishay at the front of the stand on the right hand side (as you looked at the […]

#ISE2010 – Gary Truman To Join VMG

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Rumour heard at the show was that Gary Truman, that will be the CFO who oversaw ASG Media Ltd (nee Avanti Screenmedia) burn through GBP 39 million will be joining VMG officially by the end of the week.

#ISE2010 – Remain In Light

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Seen in Amsterdam at ISE today; a cosy looking triumvirate walking around the show; Bernhard Baer, Thomas Doktor and Silke Reichenbach (POPAI Germany) Lovely to see David Williams (the nice one) and Dan Williams and James Abdool. Lee Booth seems to have popped up again and was seen walking the show floor.

#ISE2010 – Blair Parkin, Visual Acuity

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Blair Parkin is one of the most respected AV consultants in the industry. He also writes his own blog over on the AV Magazine site. Blair told us “I answer to many names but my preferred one is Blair Parkin. I have been knocking around the world of professional audio visual and related technologies for […]

#ISE2010 – 10N118 Slight Stand Re-Design

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

We keep tweaking Stand 10N118 (the Blogger Lounge in Hall 10) as we learn about what works and is comfortable and what does not. Here’s Tuesday’s layout… We moved all of the comfortable chairs to the right hand side (as shown here) to create a (sort-of) screened off private area. Yesterday we had 4 or […]

#ISE2010 – Seen But Not Seen

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Seen in Amsterdam yesterday; Don Sperring, Eric Penot (who easily gave the best presentation at #DOOHBizConf), Mike Fabian, Tom Nix, Brad Gleeson. Also walking the floor (would these folks ever fork out for an exhibition stand he asks rhetorically?) and doing the rounds Moti Gura from Trumedia. Nice to see the Neo Media Group and […]

#ISE2010 InAVate DS Content Finalists

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

This evening (Wednesday 3rd February) the InAVate awards ceremony takes place in the Rai Diamond Lounge 18:00 – 20:30 CET and one of the categories we are particularly interested in is the Digital Signage Content Category. It looks like someone has really taken notice of the category. Here’s some detail on three that we think […]

#ISE2010 Blogger Lounge Goodie Bag

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

A (takeaway) Goodie Bag proved incredibly popular to visitors of our last Blogger Lounge (Screen Media Expo Europe April 2009) and so we have done the same at #ISE2010 this week. The Goodie Bag is in the form of a big paint pot (as shown here) The paint tins with a sealed lid work quite […]