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?
May 12th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
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
June 25th, 2008 at 8:12 am
While I remember, there’s a nifty Javascript QR code decoder at http://www.hafenscher.net/qrcode/qrcode.jar
June 26th, 2008 at 1:10 am
[...] The nerd in me was very interested to read about QR codes on Martin Tod’s blog. [...]
August 7th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
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.