(Via Faire son épicerie dans le métro grâce aux codes QR)

Another usage of QR Code, that I love as well but will never try:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3qv2dSXQXk

Despite the comments on the video that criticized the "animated" part in the tattoo, I very much like the idea but I would challenge one thing: the choice of a proprietary format which in any use case can be blamed but even more in the case of a non-erasable, non-modifiable tattoo. What if the company running the code is out-of-business, or if they decide to charge for every scan/use of the code? what about all the people that could potentially try this tattoo but can not because their mobile phone is not loaded with the appropriate reader? I understand the size of the tattoo is a constraint but there might be other solution. Personally I would use an URL that I own (and not one of this URL shortener) and would implement it in a way that I can dynamically change the landing page/video. Why not adapting the video to my mood! (Via 2d-code)

Generally speaking I found QR Code (or barcode in general but hopefully mainly QR Codes) to become much more ubiquitous… spotted a few of them on ads (or on TV) lately…

I scanned my first QR Code in the street last week. It was on a signage and it lead me to a form to participate to a contest (unfortunately the deadline had passed). Surprinsingly the target webpage was well formated for my mobile device. I guess that’s a sign that both QR Code and the mobile web are progressing… Neat.

Technoark used 2D barcode… while it was not, to my knowledge, really implemented (I think the barcode on the badge was just there for “access control”), it is quite easy to push further and think that the by scanning the barcode with my mobile phone I could access an online mobile profile of the person I am talking with and save it for later use.

Lift09 used Poken, a tiny USB device that includes a NFC. When approaching your token to someone else Poken, it blinks and exchange information about your social networks. Back at home you can plug the Poken to your computer that will open a web page on doyoupoken.com and display all the business cards you have exchanged, and you will then be able to access your contact’s facebook or twitter account (assuming they have entered those information on doyoupoken.com).

Because it requires yet another device to carry on, I do not believe that much in Poken (why not the mobile phone ?)

Both technologies are interesting, but I also exchanged business cards :-) I guess it takes time to change habits…

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Pitié,… c’en est presque drôle,… mais presque seulement :-)

Good idea, I had seen it somewhere I think but do not remember where (I thought it was on GetJar but apparently not and I could not find it). Here is a two inputs on my side.

1) Not sure that going directly to the download process is the right way to go. An intermediate page that gives some information to the end user like download size and version might be safer. User might feel a bit more secure as soon as it knows how big is the file he is going to download (and charge for, as long as we do not have true flat rate).

2) Why generating one barcode per device model ? (ie. Share online per N95, Share online per N73,… ) the whole logic should be hidden to the user and put on the server side. The correct version of the software to be downloaded should be determined on the server (thanks to User-agent detection), if it exists.

Moconews: Mobile Barcodes Driving Magazine Traffic. In France mobile barcodes are called Mobile Tag or Flashcode, provided by the same company I think, which are basically datamatrix with numeric code in it. The resolution is therefore done on a server and it is tied to a reader. The built-in reader of my Nokia can not decode those, so for me it is useless.

Nokia plans to replace clicks with “Point&Find”, “Point and Find” identifies objects through image recognition and provides users with associated information. This technology has definitely a lot of promise… (#)

Augme.com. Nice service that lets you generate barcode (either qrcode or datamatrix) for any mobile link. Once subscribe you can then generate your barcodes, tag them, search,… but I have not seen any statistic module.
Note that barcode generated move the targeted URL to augme.com domain. The URL encoded is hosted in another domain, format is the following: x.augme.com/somealphanumcode. Therefore when generating barcodes on augme.com you get tied to them.

I have been thinking about something similar with additional functionalities linked to the mobile world (transcoding service for instance) but I have not yet found the time to implement it…