Hey, digital signage industry folks…
Um, check this out for the ultimate OH CRAP moment:
Yeeaaa, that would be the opening ceremonies of the Olympics… where I hear there’s a pretty decent sized audience.
Get the guy who was managing that feed a tissue. Or… uh, a new job?
Pic via Gizmodo.
Hopefully we’ll get some pics soon, but the Outburst forum at University of Denver on Sunday had a great turn-out, bringing in a constant stream of thoughtful messages addressing “new school” ways of solving pressing public policy challenges.
Far from your typical txt talk, here’s a sampling of the screen fodder:
“Politics is the art of civic involvement. Without that involvement, we can not have an impact.”
“Due to the holes in primary and secondary education students in higher education are constantly playing catch up. Will we ever catch up?”
“We need to stop avoiding recession; cutting interest rates is prolonging the problem. This country needs a recession to get back on track.”
It’s always rewarding for us to see Wiffiti affiliated with such well-run events in such great company. We’re looking forward to the next in the series!
Now that Joe Biden has starred in the text message heard ’round America, the DNC can now officially get underway.
LocaModa is excited to be involved! This coming Sunday, August 24th, we’ll be partnering with the Outburst Tour, the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet, and the University of Denver at a series of forums throughout the day.
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Busy. Busy busy.
If LocaModa was soup right now, it would burn your mouth.
We had two big releases hit the wire/world/interweb TODAY!
First, check out the rundown of of Touchtunes/US Air Guitar event… There’s a link to the full Flickr photostream at the bottom, but you may be satisfied with the featured pic of Shreddy Mercury, complete with his KISS shirt and enviable mullet. Such a cool event– much thanks to TouchTunes (an official sponsor of USAG and a partner of ours) for getting us involved!
We also went live with our announcement of LocaModa as the platform provider for BarCast’s national rollout! I’m in deep, deep love with the new photo app, which you can see in the pic below (user-generated content is alive and well… and sometimes creeeeepy).
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Can’t get enough of the parallel pommel horse, synchronized fencing, marathon ping pong, and that random USA swimmer dude that keeps winning gold medals every four seconds? (Oh Michael, I kid, I kid…)
So hey, you’re not alone. As a collective audience, you’re reportedly using new media more than ever before.
According to NBC, “about half of the people who are using mobile phones to pull down video or information about the Olympics have been trying out that technology for the first time.” [continued after the jump]
As hard as it is to trump the US Air Guitar Championships, our VP Sales, Steve King, has done it in style! A huge congratulations to Steve and Ashley on their new baby boy!
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Oh. My. My.
The US Air Guitar Championships.
Ummmm…. WOW.
In a gorgeous venue that smelled distinctly of Cool Ranch Doritos, Cuervo, sweat, and 100% organic Airness, I witnessed one of the most amazing sights of the modern world… and Wiffiti captured the breadth of the magical hotness.
My full pictorial can be found on flickr, but I’ve selected some classics to whet your appetite…
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On Friday night at the Grand in San Francisco, the greatest air guitarists in the nation will gather… and now you can virtually support them from anywhere! Just load up the Touchtunes and USAG Wiffiti screen and send your text messages live to the large screens in the venue! Feel free to check it out now and send your words of encouragement to Nordic Thunder and all of his fearless challengers…
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It’s with an arsenal of awesome and pocket full of irony that I head out to the US Air Guitar Championships in San Francisco this Friday.
You heard me.
The US Air Guitar Championships.
We’ll be supporting our friends at Touchtunes and their role as the Official Digital Jukebox of USAG. I’ll be Wiffiti-ing like a fiend while I’m there; that is, if I can take my eyes off the supreme airness I’m destined to witness.
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In one of the best analogies I’ve heard in a long while, the guys over at GrowYourWiki (Matt Moore, Doug Cornelius, and Stewart Mader) have compared the Location-Based Social Networking model to the age-old, much refined practice of dogs peeing on fire hydrants (uhm, excuse me, “marking their territory”).
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