The Decline of Browser-based Email
Web-based email was one of features responsible for breaking down the barriers to entry to the internets websites. In order to register for sites or purchase items, an email address was and often still is needed for verification. Yet in the early days, Outlook and desktop-based email were not accessible to everyone, and required an [...]
Top 5 Reasons Why Top 5 Lists Get Shared
People love lists. Lists are orderly, they are clean, they put things in a clear perspective that is easily understood. People are used to lists; to seeing their names in them, finding services, or looking for jobs. Now in the online writing and blogging space, Top # posts are becoming common. It is fitting then, [...]
Smartphone Addiction: Goodbye to Patience
Mobile phones are rapidly altering how we approach everything in our lives. Now, instead of relying on knowledge and information retained in our brains, we have little need to remember anything. All of our contacts are in one place, and if we don’t have a direct phone number or email we have access to them [...]
The 2012 Campaign to End Excessive Hyperbole
Let’s start off 2012 with a nice rant: In our digital age where everything competes for attention against everything else, we as a society have lost all credibility. “This is the funniest things I have ever seen in my entire life.” “I laughed so hard, I died, I LITERALLY died.” “They have the best burgers [...]
It’s That Time Of Year: A Look Ahead For DOOH in 2016
When the end of the year comes around and us writers can’t come up with more things to say and want to take a break over the holidays, we do our “look ahead” article with the predictions for the coming year. Well, anyone in the industry who works with technology probably already knows what will [...]
The Complete Digitizations Of Ourselves
People worry about security cameras in public places that track movements and record footage onto decks and hard drives just in case something happens. Some fret that this step into our privacy is taking things a bit too far, though security cameras now survey more acres of cityscape and even rural freeway sections. Most people [...]
The usual faces turned up at CETW in New York City yesterday as the engagement-oriented trade show sought to attract buyers and advertisers to a heavily under construction Javits Center on Manhattan’s west side. Underway are the efforts of digital signage, mobile, and kiosks providers to lure new contracts amid a market that is less [...]
The ability for digital signage to recognize who is in front of its screen has been pioneered by a number of companies to change the retail and DOOH advertising space. Targeting to a specific gender and age group vastly limits waste, and ensures that the experience is more relevant for the user. While it might [...]
Looking around the screens flashed advertisements and content, some had audio, creating a mix-up between the primary and secondary entertainment. At night it was a bright as day. I am not writing about Times Square, the iconic Digital Out of Home mecca here in New York City, I am writing about a friend’s place in [...]
Starting today, August 11, DOOH.com will be featuring a six part video interview filmed at the Digital Signage Showcase Theater at InfoComm 2011 in Orlando, FL. Host and industry leader Lyle Bunn, who has worked extensively with Tony Hymes in publishing major DOOH industry reports carried in USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, interviewed [...]
