QR-Codes – some more ideas

I’ve been surprised by the response to my previous post on QR-codes – the 2-d barcodes that can be read by mobile phones.

I’m still skeptical, but Roger, the editor of http://2d-code.co.uk/ wrote to point me at the impressive Japanese experience with QR-codes – apparently 51% of Japanese mobile phone users use the barcode function.

Looking through his site, I liked the idea of linking the QR-code to a mobile facebook page and was inspired by this Harrods ad to create a QR-code for a Twitter sign-up SMS. Here are examples of each:

  

Another option is that QR-codes may be used for the VCF files used to exchange addresses between phones.  This article suggests linking to one of these files on a website – but I’m not entirely clear why you wouldn’t just put the whole address file into the QR-code as follows?

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5 Responses to QR-Codes – some more ideas

  1. David CT says:

    Funny you should be looking at these right now. Japanese people can even put them on their gravestone.

    http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/12/tombstones-with-bar.html

  2. Martin says:

    While I remember, there’s a nifty Javascript QR code decoder at http://www.hafenscher.net/qrcode/qrcode.jar

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  4. Ian Foster says:

    http://www.qrme.co.uk launched over two months ago and as well as having news and videos based around QR codes the site also creates both a URL and SMS QR Code for you using data from your user profile. A member forum has also been set up for members to exchange ideas. There are instructions on the site on how to set up a free mobile website to link to your QR Code and the service is free.

  5. Tom says:

    I been using http://www.beqrious.com for some time I like it :)

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