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A propos de Flashcode…

jerome — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:16:11 +0000

Commence à m’énerver ce genre d’article…

[...] Mobiletag n’a pas développé un code barre 2D propriétaire, mais s’est appuyé sur une norme ouverte: DataMatrix [...]

Y’a quand même pas beaucoup de différences entre développer un code propriétaire et utiliser un standard dans une solution propriétaire (disons que dans le premier cas y’a au moins un minimum de R&D) . Au final c’est quand même l’utilisateur qui en souffre à l’utilisation…

La preuve par l’image:J’ai voulu scaner un code trouvé dans un magazine (dont je tairai le nom tellement j’en suis pas fier :-)

et voici le résultat obtenu en utilisant le lecteur de code barre 2D installé par défaut sur mon mobile… SUCKS! bad user experience :-)

2D barcodes for applications download

jerome — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:04:58 +0000

Tommi’s blog: 2D barcodes pointing directly to application downloads

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.

Mobile barcodes (or 2D codes) news

jerome — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:32:14 +0000

The Times in Johannesburg has launched the TimesCode which is basically slightly modified QR Code to include the label “TimeCodes”. Basically a marketing thing since those code are readable by any QR Code reader. Via The Pondering Primate

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… (#)