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everything that can have a cpu will have a cpu and they will communicate together. you do one thing in your fridge and your phone, laptop, tv, car and tablet will know about it to... and soon our brains.

This is also commonly referred to as "the internet of things." Digital Sixth Sense is probably a more intuitive way to talk about it, but it's a complex topic to grasp regardless.

Digital signage and gamification can foster increased engagement, productivity and profitability for restaurants. Check out the video for Pizza Hut at the bottom. Is making pizza into a game worth it? I was on Papa John's website yesterday and they had a more basic version of this. And it frustrating. Because they made something easy, more difficult. The key is to make the experience EASIER for the customer not MORE COMPLICATED.

Digital signage and gamification can foster increased engagement, productivity and profitability for restaurants. Check out the video for Pizza Hut at the bottom. Is making pizza into a game worth it? I was on Papa John's website yesterday and they had a more basic version of this. And it frustrating. Because they made something easy, more difficult. The key is to make the experience EASIER for the customer not MORE COMPLICATED.

Another article about 4K and its impact in the Interactive/Digital realm. "4K is essentially an image four times as detailed as HD"

Another article about 4K and its impact in the Interactive/Digital realm. "4K is essentially an image four times as detailed as HD"

The ninth paragraph is full of good stuff or at least unexpected stats.

Reminds me of ads on some of the digital radio services. Single still image paired with a spot.

Visual brands, visual ads.

Product design company launches a digital warehouse to bring the showroom experience home.

Connects you with your social soul mate based on a custom algorithm.

US Airways isn't firing the person who tweeted a lewd photograph from their corporate Twitter account. How about that.

Rovio, the company that makes Angry Birds, is somehow still moving mad product from offshoots of the original game.

Twitter is rolling out a new app install ad exchange across other associated social media platforms through a program called MoPub wherein advertisers will be able to bid on ads that allow users to directly install apps through the ad.

Target helps launch a game with Purina. It seems extremely random but more and more companies are trying to enter into the gaming market to attract more costumers.

An overlooked market in advertising for gaming is the girls in gaming scene. It is increasing whereas the men's market has remained mostly steady. Article also addressed the different advertising primetime in gaming than that of television which creates a new market to target as well

And here's someone (or lots of someones) forecasting already for next year. Some nice content from not the author and people who are actually relevant.

Yikes! That's a lot of $$$ "Advertisers will waste a total of $11.6 billion on ads seen only by bots programmed to impersonate human traffic."

the other side of the media consumption spectrum digital and old.

Some of these trends are pretty out there but they're kind of foreseeable. The (technology) cloud is gaining popularity. Cds are absolute. It may be interesting how this changes many years after this expected technological date. Humans tend to go back, like the surge of buying records again. Maybe future angsty kids will declare cds as the only "real way" to listen to music.