David Weinfeld
Clear Channel Airports Go Gesture Crazy
Clear Channel Airports recently announced a partnership with Monster Media, a leading alternative out-of-home media and technology company, to bring gesture-controlled interactive displays to its portfolio of airport locations. Monster Media is known in the out-of-home sector for interactive street level billboards installed on the storefront windows of vacant commercial properties. The video attached above [...]
The Future of Mobile at TechCrunch Disrupt
I was lucky enough this morning to catch a bulk of the future of mobile panel from TechCrunch Disrupt. Thanks to TechCrunch’s live stream of the event, I was able to follow the discussion between Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley, Facebook’s Chris Cox, and Google’s Vic Gundotra from my office. TechCrunch is doing an amazing job of connecting [...]
Blippy opens users’ purchases to developers
Blippy, the social networking startup that has been called “Twitter for credit cards,” is set to open its firehose of data to outside developers. A site designed to answer the question “What are your friends buying?” Blippy facilitates conversations around its users’ shopping habits. Considering Blippy users are streaming data on $1.5 million worth of purchases each week, the social network’s conversations [...]
48 Hour Magazine to transform old media
How would you like to contribute to a magazine that aims to go from concept to completion in 48 hours? You would join a cadre of photographers, journalists, illustrators, and editors who want to combine the efficiencies of the web with the permanence of ink . In only twice the time it takes Jack Bauer [...]
Death notices on digital billboards
I don’t like reading obituaries in the newspaper. I try to skip over the section altogether. Even though death is as unavoidable as taxes, I try to think about it as little as possible. I suppose I’m much like everyone else in this regard. Given my inclination to avoid thoughts of my life ticking away, [...]
Access 360 acquires Arena Media Networks
Fresh off of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing, Arena Media Networks, a digital place-based media company with video networks in sports stadiums, has been acquired by Access 360 Media. After raising nearly $12.5 million in two rounds of venture capital funding, Arena Media was unable to bear the weight of the economic downturn. As [...]
RMG Networks partners with Delta Air Lines
RMG Networks, a market leader in the fast-emerging digital out-of-home media sector, has doubled the size of its in-flight entertainment network thanks to a partnership with Delta Air Lines. The multi-year advertising sales agreement lifts RMG’s in-flight network audience to 10 million monthly viewers. The network now reaches 110,000 video screens installed in the seatbacks of 840 aircraft. [...]
Los Angeles Times adds Amazon Links
For a newspaper that has seen arguments erupt recently between its business and editorial groups over calls of media exploitation, the Los Angeles Times continues to blur the lines between news reporting and commerce. The Los Angeles Times unveiled a plan this week to place affiliate links for sites like Amazon and TicketNetwork in the text of certain [...]
Is Facebook trying to revolutionize the web for the good of Facebook?
Ever since Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s twenty-something CEO, announced his company’s new “Open Graph” initiatives at FB’s developer conference F8, the web has been buzzing about the potential repercussions. Some say that Facebook is aiming to make the entire web more social, whereas skeptics claim that Facebook is pursuing global digital domination. Is Facebook trying to [...]
Facebook unveils “Like” button at f8
As the web speculated a few weeks ago, including an article from yours truly, Facebook announced at f8 in San Francisco that it will be launching a universal “Like” button. The objective of the “Like” button is to give FB users the ability to share their favorite content across the web with their social graphs. While there [...]
Google Places adds new local business tools
It’s nothing new that Google is aggressively going after the long tail that is local business advertising. In pursuit of the corner store’s ad budget, the search engine giant has just released new tools under the banner of its ”Local Business Center” (which is being rebranded as Google Places). Here’s the new features it’s adding (with commentary from [...]
#4sqday parties spread across the globe
#4sqday has emerged as a global phenomenon. Some are calling it the world’s ”first social media holiday.” Foursquare Day, April 16 for obvious math reasons, has developed into a massive movement, devoted to bringing together ”swarms” and meetups of Foursquare users in cities across the world. Some cities are even challenging one another to see who can get a [...]
Twitter Launches Resource Site for Media Companies
The more companies that find success on Twitter, the better it is for Twitter’s future. It benefits Twitter as an organization to support its users’ education on how best to leverage the platform. Whether that be in the form of case studies or a compilation of best practices, the entire Twitter ecosystem grows more fruitful as [...]
Lamar is with Coco!
He may be banned from network TV, but Conan O’Brien is not having any trouble reaching a national audience. From countless fans on Facebook to millions of followers on Twitter, Team Coco is running like a well-oiled machine. Thanks to a pro bono assist from Lamar Advertising, Team Coco’s distribution power has just gained a significant boost. Conan’s tweets [...]
Use Bing Maps mashups to find your next apartment
Do you move a lot? Do you find it difficult to locate an apartment in the cool part of town when you land in a new city? Do you even know where the cool part of town is? Maybe you don’t want to live where the party crowd hangs out. Or perhaps you want to be near [...]
Embracing a new media paradigm
While media executives sat in their leather-trimmed offices and looked out their windows onto streets filled with the denizens of their cities, new media content creators from all corners of the globe emerged. Once people found their voices and the means to shepherd them beyond their audible range, they realized that they could attract sizeable [...]
Facebook ‘Like’ button to rival Retweet tag?
He Diggs. She Stumbles. They Retweet. You Buzz. WE… With the coming of a universal Facebook “Like” button, we might be doing something new with content we find on the web. Content sharing buttons are ubiquitous across Internet sites. We tag, bookmark, and tweet articles to take a degree of ownership over content we discover online. [...]
Modern day storytellers and journalists are everywhere
With the launch of iPad pre-orders, the new media stories coming out of SXSW, and the surge of announcements around the hyperlocal sector (ex: NY Times is working w/ FWIX), it’s nearly impossible for me to go a day without thinking about the future of news. It could be in the form of citizen journalists, [...]
Is Facebook about to go QR code crazy?
Imagine that you’re walking around a bar. Everywhere you turn you see people wearing shirts emblazoned with checkered barcodes. No one is talking to each other. Instead of dancing and conversing, the majority of the establishment’s patrons are taking camera phone pictures of those around them. Pictures aren’t being taken of people’s faces, but rather [...]
Marijuana legalization ad to hit Times Square Digital Billboard
The smoke has cleared, yet a suspicious odor still lingers in the air. Representatives from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws Foundation (NORML) are inhaling a sigh of relief. In the end, the marijuana legalization flag is set to fly high above Times Square. First it was on, then it was off, [...]
