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QR Code on television

jerome — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:23:51 +0000

Shortly after my first QR Code scan of a public signage (I have been scanning QR Code for a long time :-), I get my first “scan QR Code on tv” experience yesterday night as I was watching “L’oeil de links” show for the first time. This new show on Canal+ is basically reporting what’s interesting/hot on the web and they use QR Code incrusted in the lower right corner of the screen to communicate the URL to the viewership. Easy. Smart. Useful. And best of all they are not using one of the proprietary solution out there… just standardized QR Code.
The show is available on the web, go and watch it by yourself (there is even a 15 seconds explanation on how to use QR Code at the begining).

“L’oeil de Links” on Twitter

QR Code on signage

jerome — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:30:40 +0000

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.

iPhone: QR Code reader for everyone

jerome — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:36:11 +0000

Yesterday Google announced that they have mailed out window stickers with two-dimensional QR Codes to the most-searched for or clicked-on businesses in its local business directory. The goal is to have them displaying in there windows so that by scanning them you will get all sorts of information about the business like phone number, photos, customer reviews,…

If you have a QR Code reader on your cell phone you can wave it in front of the barcode and you will be transported from the physical to the digital world.

An idea not so new… I am sure some persons have thought about it but Google just has the resources to effectively do it. They even partnered with Quickmark to distribute 40′000 pieces of their software for iPhone for free (instead of $1.99). iPhone owner go ahead and download it!

I tried Insqribe

jerome — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:37:44 +0000

Took some time this morning to give a shot to Insqribe, a webapp that allows you to manage your QR Code.

Create 10 codes for free… then you will have to pay I guess;
Create campaign and codes within a campaign;
For every code you get statistics on how many times it has been shot per day/week/month (and export those in csv format);
You can create codes that are leading to a web page, allowing document download (song, video,…) or displaying some information in plain text;
In three cases the code generated is an URL that points to a server which in turn is going to redirect you to the target destination;
When the code generated is a link, your are redirected to the link (well obvious mmh?);
When the code generated is a document, it is uploaded on Insqribe website and you are redirected to this document when scanning the code. Would be nice maybe to access an intermediate page that give you some information about this document like size and type, would give the end user the choice to cancel the download (especially useful given the current data rate);
When the code generated is “plain text”, you are redirected to a web page on Insrqibe website that displays the text you have entered when generating the code;

The service seems to be using Qode (from NeoMedia) service (probably though an API). When shooting a code the browser is first redirected to a qode.com address and then to Insqribe service (2 redirections then).
(UPDATE: no they are not, see comment below, my bad!)

It seems they are going to introduce some social network features… looking forward to it!

By the way… 2d codes on iPhone sucks! I have not found a good reader yet. None of them seems to be “scanning” in real time the code. They all requires to “manually” take a picture and it renders the whole process much less appealing.

Via 2d-code.co.uk

QR Code à la capsule

jerome — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:32:05 +0000

J’avais eu une petite discussion avec Mr. Pain il y a quelques semaines, et il semblerait que le reportage sur les QR codes a été diffusé hier à la Capsule sur la RSR. A réécouter ici.

C’est quand même fou ce qu’ils peuvent faire au montage :-)