Poor Man’s Kiosk: Building a Touchscreen from a Standard LCD or LED
Let’s face it, touchscreens are often prohibitively expensive. For that reason, we now provide our customers with a conversion kit that allows you to create a digital signage touch screen out of any standard LCD or LED display. The mediaFRAME Kiosk Conversion Kit is one digital product offered by MediaSignage, Inc. that enables touchscreen capabilities for […]
Introducing MediaSignage Powered by AWS CloudFront
Today we’re happy to announce SignageStudio powered by AWS CloudFront. By integrating with Amazon’s proprietary Content Delivery Network, we can now provide an enhanced experienced for both free and premium customers alike. The greatest benefit is the massive (600%+) boost in upload/download speeds across our network of AWS powered servers. This will significantly improve users’ […]
Make Your Digital Signage More Social with Social Components
Our engineers have been busy. In this release we are introducing new digital signage components including enhanced Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Instagram, Google Calendar and much more. Best of all, Enterprise users can start using these new components right away while free users can now play with enterprise components even without upgrading. Checkout the list and […]
Queue Management Software with FasterQ
We’ve officially released FasterQ, our queue management software solution. You can learn about the features by watching the video tutorial or checking out the open source code which you can fork on Github. As part of the open source StudioLite, FasterQ allows venues to manage customers, clients or groups in queue. Individuals can be added […]
FasterQ and Our Open SDK
I’m always a bit amused by some of the press from companies in the industry touting “first to market interactive digital signage” or “industry leader in digital signage and social media integration” or [insert your own buzz here]. When there’s no liability or fact checking, it makes such PR sound more compelling than it should […]
Latest 2015 Product Roadmap
2015 is shaping up to be another great year. I recognize it’s been a while since we last posted to the blog, but we’ve been extremely busy on several feature and product additions. In addition, we’ve been working directly with clients on some fairly interesting projects at the close of 2014 and on in to […]
Why The Ancillary and Non-Sexy in Digital Signage Deserve More Attention
Investors simply love cash-on-cash recurring revenue. Virtual products with no need to ship, install or provide long-term, meaningful support for–that’s the ideal business model. This is one of the very reasons Google has determined to move away from a hardware strategy altogether. Contrast that with the high margins gleaned from Apple upfront hardware purchases and […]
Sinking Ships: How Failing (and Nearly Failing) Providers Have Helped to Spur Our Recent Growth
The niche of digital signage has seen a number of casualties in the last few months, none of which bodes well for the industry at large, but which is expected for an industry bred out of technology. Low barriers to entry, ease of scalability and free software solutions make it difficult to compete in an […]
Why Too Many Digital Signage Networks Fail — And What to Do About it
The difference between success and failure in nearly anything is measured in that small incremental increase on the margin. The marginal difference is what often separates the brilliant scholar and the talented athlete from the nobody. It’s arguably one of the reasons Lebron James gets paid more, why an inch in your height accounts for roughly […]
