Other Kiosk Blog Sites on the Web
Author: Bill Gerba on 2004-02-23 10:36:00
After receiving an email from Mike Levin of Scala regarding my last entry, I decided that it might be interesting to see who else is writing about kiosks and digital signage as part of some kind of informal practice. A quick search of both Google and Yahoo! lead to some interesting results, and a lot more uninteresting ones. Probably the best site is that of
Tim Daw, one of the founders of NetShift, a kiosk software company out of the U.K. He maintains
KNO, or KioskNews.Org. And I'm happy to say that while he is so close to NetShift, his site is fairly balanced. In fact,
today's entry features a
WireSpring press release, so that speaks to his ability to actually present news about the industry, not just spin it. Then of course there's the aforementioned
Matthewn Nolton's Blog on Kiosk Software. To his credit, Matthew does include some code samples and thoughts that might be useful to somebody starting a new kiosk project. I though that
this entry of
James Bach's Blog was particularly interesting. His argument is well thought out and his observations are, in my opinion, dead-on. It's good to see other people looking into issues like this. Community involvement and customer feedback are, in my opinion, the best way to produce a rock-solid product. The only other particularly interesting link that I found was
this one, which notes one particular type of interactive kiosk. I've never been a fan of ad-driven kiosk models, but if somebody can make it work, then hey, more power to them. Other than that, the landscape is fairly barren. There are more articles here and there about individual kiosk projects, but nothing specific, and nothing particularly interesting. Continuing my previous rant about Google's poor search results for
WireSpring and
FireCast for search terms like
kiosk and
digital signage, the search results for
kiosk seem to be ok, mostly because there are so few legit entries at this point. Hell, this page isn't even listed yet. I guess I have some optimization work to do yet... One last note. Remember way back to the beginning of this entry when I mentioned Mike Levin? I've just received an email from him noting that he is now running his own weblog at
http://www.mike-levin.com/blog. So I suppose that adds one more to my list.
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I think this is growing, including my own at www.kiosk-blog.com and I think the guys at Networld Alliance have some blogs on kiosks. Mine is sometimes critiques of kiosks I see deployed and sometimes just on various related topics or marketing ideas.
I hope to see you at the upcoming digital signage expo in Feb. 2008, where we will be providing interactive signage content for DTResearch and part of their booth (shameless plug, really). Please look me up there or at KioskCom in April where we will have our own booth. I'd love to discuss industry topics with you.