First time ever that I see a QR Code used at point of sales in a grocery store. That must be a sign of democratization of barcodes!

(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…

It has happend to Telepresence in 24 as well, and since I work for Cisco I spotted a few shows that use our IP phone (part of our Unified Communication product line)…

Via The Mobile Tagging blog

I was pleasantly surprised to find a datamatrix on the cover of the stickerbook…

I scanned it with the built-in reader of my Nokia N95 and here is the result:

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…

With QR codes :-)