The demise of Lehman and sale of Merrill Lynch have been the talk near the water cooler in our office. For those who are interested I found a very simple and quick description of what happened.
What does it mean for the rest of us? Wall Street may seem like a long way from Main Street (or in our [...]
A couple of quick thoughts upon reflection on my trip to ASIS this week…
The economy is definitely impacting the end-users (duh!) that normally attend these shows as I heard from several long-time vendor attendees that they were having trouble getting customer meetings and that customers were cancelling their trips to the show at all due [...]
As I mentioned last Saturday in a post, I spent the first part of this week in Atlanta at ASIS – one of the two really large security shows each year, the other being the ISC shows (there are two of them, East and West). The thing that I like about the ASIS conference is [...]
Too cool, check out David Spark’s Security Dreamer Unconference coverage of ASIS. Great coverage for those of us who couldn’t make it!
ONVIF, PSIA , SIA. What are they? Fringe terrorist groups? l337 techno jargon? No, they are standards organizations working on Network Video.
Standards can be very valuable to end customers and users of video products. Value will come to customers by enabling increased competition (lower initial purchase cost) and ease of deployments (lower install cost) for [...]
Yesterday I blogged about sharing video from a web camera. Today, I’d like to talk about sharing video from surveillance cameras. What is typical state-of-the-art today? The answer is not very sophisticated. A user typically would need to travel to be physically next to the DVR. Then they would use the user interface to burn [...]
Here is yet another photo sharing site whose innovation is around the layout of photos, allowing you to share them in books ala scrap-book style. Its interesting to see there is still innovation (you be the judge of good or bad) in this area. Which brings me to ask, how to you typically share video?
Well, [...]
Great post by the “CEO Strategist”, Dr. Rick Johnson. Good straight talk about selling in today’s environment.
The Pygmalion Effect
I recommend that you check out this post at IPVideoMarket.info.
The post seeks feedback on an idea to establish a marketplace where buyers of video solutions can find experts to help them with their purchase. Given the rate of change in the marketplace, including the impact of new solutions like MVaaS, I’m certain that buyers would welcome assistance in narrowing their [...]
Sitting here on a Saturday reflecting on the upcoming ASIS conference in Atlanta this coming week.
This will be my 3rd ASIS since starting Envysion and I feel like I finally understand the lay of the land well enough to maximize my time there this week. The first time I went I just walked around not [...]
