Akadi Technologies

The University of Utah issued a press release today that featured Akadi Technologies.  The University of Utah spun off 24 companies last year, Akadi was among them.

Check out the article to see who else came out of the U.

I’d like to thank everyone at the U that’s helped us out along the way!

Aaron

Just caught wind that we were mentioned on NPR Thursday, Jul 18th.  I didn’t hear it, but apparently we were mentioned in a little bit about startups out of the U of Utah.

I’m looking for a link to the radio bit… I will share when I find it!

Aaron

One more bit of news today.  We were up at the Ray Olpin Student Union on the U of Utah campus.  They’ve recently installed 13 displays running DAN throughout the Union.  Their plan is to mix Student Information on events and deadlines, resources such as prices for ski tickets and movies, and also some advertising that the students will have an interest in.

Check it out if you can!

Aaron

I just wanted to take a second to thnk Florida Coastal School of Law for joining the Akadi family.  We ran into them at the CALI conference in Baltimore, MD.  We’ve been working with them for a few weeks now and they’ve signed on to be an Akadi customer!

Thanks again.. and welcome to the Akadi family!

Aaron

Akadi Technologies was recently featured in the Technology Venture Development’s Innovations newsletter.  This newsletter is put out by the University of Utah’s Technology Venture Development office out of the David Eccles School of Business.

If you’d like to see the newsletter, you can download it here.

You can read more about the Technology Venture Devleopment office here.

Just dropping a note to say a big “Thank You” to everyone who attended our presentations at CALI this year.  We presented:

• The Proactive Helpdesk
• Fun with Digital Signage (DAN)
• Managing Website and Application Infrastructure

I thought the presentations went well and we’ve had some awesome feedback from those who attended.  We tried to make them as engaging as possible and share some ideas that might help you further the progress of technology in your law school.

As we said in all of them, if you’d like more information please don’t hesitate to contact us!

Thanks again!

Aaron

Hey, we’re out in Baltimore, MD at the Computer Aided Legal Instruction conference, or CALI, for short.

Being that we’re out of the S.J. Quinney College of Law we were given permission to present DAN there.

I’ll be presenting at 4:00 EDT in room 460 of the Thurgood Marshall Law School.

It’ll be a great opportunity for us to share DAN with other colleges and let them know how cool it is!

BTW, if you’re at CALI and see me… let me know or stop me and say, “Hi”.

Aaron

Well, we have recently found out that the University of Utah’s Marketing and Communications group is going to install screens throughout the University of Utah campus.  Currently, they’re running a demo version to learn how to use the software and should be rolling these out live in the coming weeks.

This is great as it truly shows how versatile DAN can be for your college or business.

We’ll keep you posted with more details when we officially get things rolling here, but I just wanted to share this exciting news with you.

If you’re interested in installing DAN in your school or business, please contact us to get things started!

Aaron

If you were to go to an electronics store right now, well its kinda late, but if a store was open and you went, and you said “Hey, I’d like to buy a high definition TV with 720p resolution”, there is a chance that you could get 1 of about 10 different possible resolutions claiming to be 720p.  It is ridiculous.

I have personally seen the following resolutions masquerading as 720p:

1366×720
1366×768
1360×720
1360×768
1280×768
1024×768

Now according to wikipedia which we can all agree *wink* is the the definitive source of truth in the universe, 720p is actually 1280×720.

So, if you are purchasing a display to use with DAN, please, find out the resolution before you buy the display.  We will do our best to create templates for whatever resolution you get but, if you are going to have more than one display, do your best to get displays that truly have the same resolution.  It will save you some headaches.

Also, generally speaking, don’t get a plasma.  Besides the fact that a lot of the time their resolutions are kind of wacky, they tend to get burn-in. If you have never heard of burn-in check out the section on burn-in in the wikipedia article on plasma TV’s.

I just found out that we are going to be presenting DAN at the CALI conference this year in Baltimore, MD.  We’re going to be co-presenting with Pepperdine University.  They’ve gone through and put digital signage up in their school, and have feedback about the process, and how to get good information on the screens.

We’re going to be presenting DAN as an example of software.  Since we grew up out of the College of Law, we are allowed to talk about DAN at this conference.

CALI is held every year in various cities, and it’s a chance for Law Schools to get together, share ideas, brainstorm and help along the legal education process from a computer level.

I’ll also be presenting Joe, our Learning/Content/School Management system (by our I mean the Quinney College), and Wes will be presenting Helpdesk Management ideas.

For more information, visit CALI’s site