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I really like the QR pattern and while working with our partner on the QR Code Reader, we had similar thoughts. When will designers (fashion and graphic designers) pick up the trend?
Chragi? Stefan?

Tags: QR Code Design, Yukata

From We-Make-Money-Not-Art's post Atelier Bow Wow's Dynamicity

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I met Momoyo Kaijima from Atelier Bow Wow shortly when she was having her presentation at ETH last december. And I cannot, but add this quote from Manthos Santorineos (re-found under her photo), as it clearly defines what we are heading at:

If 'the medium was the message', the platform is the message of the message and the weakening of the medium. 'Platform' is the combination of technology, a new way of thinking about meeting needs, and the vision of a group of people who are preparing a 'space' in which to invite interested persons to develop their own ideas. If the late 20th century was characterized by McLuhan's maxim 'the medium is the message,' the beginning of the next one can be characterized as follows: 'We are preparing new platforms for new messages.'"

Tag: Platform

Marketingblurb's Mobile Marketing writes about some recent mobile marketing strategies.

Sugar Mama beats it all: Watch a 30-second Virgin Mobile commercial to get a free minute talk time;)

Trends in Mobile:

• Participatory Media
• Convergence between PC and Mobile
• 2D Barcodes (QR Codes)

Microlearning - Mobile and Micro (PDF)

Where are we with SUPL?


PS:
Control Plane = too expensive and "pushy"

Uses the Circuit Switched network (TCH) for assistance data and communication
Requires updates to several network elements to handle all of the standard protocols
Supports legacy terminals (excepting AGPS)
Supports location of emergency calls

User Plane = the commercially viable pull option

Uses the Packet Switched network (TCP/IP) capability to bypass the Switched Circuit infrastructure
Modification of network not required
Cannot locate legacy terminals
Does not support location of emergency calls

See
Dueling Architectures: User Plane, Control Plane (PDF)

You can find here our QR Code Encoder (http://qrcode.kaywa.com). The decoder will soon follow.

QR Code Reader in Camera Phone Survey (translated by Seron)

japan.internet.com, in conjunction with Cross Marketing Inc, looked at what people thought about mobile phone cameras. They interviewed 150 male and 150 female mobile phone owners from up and down the country; 20.0% were aged 18 or 19, and similarly 20.0% in each of the twenties, thrities, forties, and fifties age bands.

From the total of 300 people, 234 of them, or 78%, used their camera once a month or more.

Q1: Please tell me all the things you use your mobile phone camera for. (Sample size=234, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Still camera	233	99.6%
Bar code or QR code reader	131	56.0%
Moving picture camera	113	48.3%
OCR	21	9.0%
Other	1	0.4%

Via the Pondering Primate

PS: Our QR Code Reader launch will happen in the next few weeks.

The RFID Hacking Underground

"The world of RFID is like the Internet in its early stages," says Ari Juels, research manager at the high tech security firm RSA Labs. "Nobody thought about building security features into the Internet in advance, and now we're paying for it in viruses and other attacks. We're likely to see the same thing with RFIDs."

[...] Most commercial RFID tags don't include security, which is expensive: A typical passive RFID chip costs about a quarter, whereas one with encryption capabilities runs about $5. It's just not cost-effective for your average office building to invest in secure chips.

Via Bruno

Google Maps Mobile.
Here is the mobile link: www.google.de/gmm.

I didn't try it out yet for Switzerland.

A post back from April 2005. But it's even more interesting now that Microsoft is making inroads in the mobile ad space.

How Google Makes A "Googol"

Now here’s what Google gets.

-a world wide Yellow Pages that provides a great local search database.
-another revenue stream from selling mobile keywords.
-the data from every cell phone and their queries (phone number, location, keyword) a mobile marketing dream, that can be sold to advertisers. I am thinking Nielsen ratings for the phone

I would think any company doing a mobile marketing campaign would pay for this info.

The two things mobile search needs are location and relevant data. The GPS chip solves the first and a Google Mobile Words solves the other.

This is how Google makes a googol.