This is neat… a FireFox plugin that lets you generate the QR Code for the page you are on. No need to type in long URL on the mobile phone… it generates them on the fly.

Of course this has a big drawback,… the webpage you are looking at is more likely not adapted for browsing on the mobile phone*, unless there are some content negotiation implemented (that serves you the tight content depending on the device) or some mobile link discovery mechanism.

This is the case for this blog located at https://www.smoothplanet.com while the mobile version much better to look at from a mobile device is located on https://www.smoothplanet.com/mobile. The right QR Code becomes then:

Generate your own QR Code
Download the KAYWA Reader

Thanks Marco for the pointer

It’s on .mobi website… it emulates behavior of a N70. Well not much to say except that emulator remains an emulator. The thoughest task on mobile world is to deal with a lot of various devices which is exactly what an emulator does NOT do!
Need to test ? get yourself the User Agent switcher add on for Firefox. It will do the job!

On the same topic read:
What’s .mobi Playing At Now?
On .mobi

Via dotMobi blog

Forbes.com: Six Mobile Innovations That Will Change Your Life

• Mobile payment
• Mobile presence
• Ubiquitous computing
• Ubiquitous media
• Health applications
• People (and object) tracking

Via Mobile Technology Weblog

PC Magazine: Mobile Internet Usage Climbs, User Base Too

Not surprisingly, the number of subscribers accessing the Internet via mobile phones is growing. But analysts also say that users, once hooked, are also using the mobile ‘Net more frequently, accessing the mobile versions of popular Internet sites.

To put on the fridge… cool :-)

Via Semapedia.org. They also talk about “Code Tattoo” (remember)

Also two “must read” post on All About Mobile Life: Why Short Codes if you have the URL, SMS, Text, Phone Numbers etc.? and QR code based travel information service and Kaywa’s new SMS Services

Translations of a resource will often have slightly different contents in terms of the semantics of what is said, so I’d give them different ids.

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Billboards that Talk to Phones (pdf)

Via The Pondering Primate

Earlier today when looking for new shorts I bump into this 2D code on an Adidas short…
They are everywhere :-)

Just when we were talking about it… thanks Marco:

Mobile Link Discovery Specs

These days a lot of web sites have mobile optimized webpages and usually publishers use different URLs for them. For example, Google has its mobile version of homepage at http://www.google.com/xhtml (instead of http://www.google.com/).
Usually publishers (Google in this case) uses techniques to dispatch mobile devices to its mobile version by looking up User-Agent string. This works fine when you make mobile webpage that only links to web pages under your control.
However, this might cause a problem linking to external sites from mobile optimized web pages. We can’t make sure the target URL has mobile optimized page or not. Mobile Link Discovery tag solves this problem.

<link
rel=”alternate”
media=”handheld”
type=”application/xhtml+xml”
href=”http://yoursite.example.com/mobile” />