Acquire announces Twitter and Atom compatibility

Acquire has added Twitter and Atom feed content compatibility to its digital-signage players.

Providing Twitter compatibility for digital signs so they can pull RSS text into a 'ticker' or Flash template is said to be a useful feature for customers who want the ability to make content changes from an external source.

However, given the limitations of Twitter - such as the fact that there are only 140 characters per message and there is an inability to provide graphics as an RSS feed - Acquire has decided to develop its own RSS service called Mymessage.

Mymessage is a service that allows site owners to create their own RSS feeds.

These feeds can be displayed as text or images.

Since a web browser is used to manage the content, users do not need extensive training to be able to understand how digital-signage software works.

This is suitable for resellers and network owners who want the ability to offer a small level of local content control for their customers; for example, receptionists can add welcome messages, travel agents can add special holiday offers and schools can add photos and messages for upcoming PTA events.

Mymessage also provides a customisable network control interface so that resellers or network owners can apply their own corporate branding.

Administrators can set up multiple user accounts and a manual content approval process so that images and text can be vetted before sending to remote digital signs.

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