Insteo's Twitter visualizations used for Ulster election meet-ups

April 13, 2011 by Dave Haynes

This is pretty interesting. The U.K. digital marketing agency Blue Apricot is working with U-TV, or Ulster Television, on a series of special election …

PROJECTS, Sightings

It's free, well, free-ish, well … ummm

April 6, 2011 by Dave Haynes

The “free” software guys are eternally interesting with their tortured approach to marketing. Consider the following news: Saudi Aramco ranks first among oil companies …

Opinion, PROJECTS, Sightings

Rant: Content-farmed tips make for worthless reading

April 5, 2011 by Dave Haynes

(Rant alert) The system of tubes is polluted with crappy human or machine-generated articles about anything under the sun. Far too many of the …

Opinion, PROJECTS, Sightings

"1,000s of people are getting excited over nothing"

April 4, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Oh Lord. I can just imagine why some retailers and brands have mixed feelings about in-store digital. This was what was worth shooting video …

PROJECTS, Sightings

Must Read: ScreenMedia Daily on search engine marketing

March 29, 2011 by Dave Haynes

I would normally just flag this on Twitter, but that’s only reaching a percentage of people who should read this excellent post by Lionel …

PROJECTS, Sightings

Buffalo jail debuts Captive Ads program

March 29, 2011 by Dave Haynes

The Erie County Holding Centre in Buffalo (aka jail) now has a giant HD monitor running ads for defence lawyers and bail bondsmen. The ads, reports …

BUSINESS, News, PROJECTS, Sightings

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Video: 3D projection mapping on Sydney Opera House

March 22, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Here’s video of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra finale from Sunday night at the Sydney Opera House. As it is described: The art of real-time …

BUSINESS, Events, PROJECTS, Sightings

Emory U's new public health bldg embeds giant MicroTiles wall

March 21, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Things have improved a lot on recent years, but we’re still largely seeing digital signage deployments with screens that are bolted on to walls …

PROJECTS, Sightings

Very cool: 3D Projection-Mapping Blasted From Half-mile Out To Sydney Opera House Sails

March 18, 2011 by Dave Haynes

This looks pretty spankin’ amazing on a bunch of levels. A week-long music festival in Sydney, Australia will culminate with a performance at the …

BUSINESS, Events, Gear, News, PROJECTS, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

Cheating face detection the Twisted Sister way

March 15, 2011 by Dave Haynes

I have been doing some writing lately about face detection technology and certainly getting better educated about the issues and arguments around privacy issues …

Gear, PROJECTS, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

Augmented Reality meets Kinect, makes Magic … Mirror

March 7, 2011 by Dave Haynes

Tech blogger Robert Scoble has a fascinating guest post up on TechCrunch about a recent visit to the Silicon Valley R&D lab of SRI …

Gear, PROJECTS, Research, retail, Sightings, TECHNOLOGY

ScreenReach's first mobile-to-screen test with Newcastle Utd gets near 10% take-up

March 6, 2011 by Dave Haynes

The UK mobile/digital screen start-up ScreenReach had its first industrial-strength test Saturday at a Newcastle United football (soccer) match at the home grounds. Fans …

Content, CREATIVE, PROJECTS, Sightings