Jérôme over at Smoothplanet also opened a 2D Barcode category.

Read his post about Quickmark's piece of software that lets you decode QR Code with your webcam.

PS: And over at ForumOxford started a discussion about Mobile 2D barcodes . (You have to register first).

Flash Lite Visual Guide from Nokia
Old news - but I only discovered it now.

Via Luciano Ayres and then Flashcell (which has a QR Code in it's contact form. As it has japanese dimensions (read: small code), it will only be readable eventually by the Kaywa Reader on Nokia Series 60 3rd edition (N80, N73) for now. Hopefully they make it a bit bigger (or zoomable), so that I can also access it with say a Nokia 6670.

COORDINATING MOBILE LIFE
by Jonas Larsen, John Urry, Kay Axhausen

We have argued that mobile phones are as symbolic of contemporary modern societies, as pocket watches were when Simmel wrote about Berlin. This transition corresponds with a shift from punctuality to more fluid ‘networked time’ where ‘punctuality’ is negotiated on the move, so that time, venue and group can change with the next email or text. Whereas trains and pocket watches were early modern twins, mobile phones and cars are the late modern ones, raging against past rhythms and timekeeping of early modernity when transport and mediated communication were unconnected. The striking popularity of cars, email and mobile communications are thus significantly tied up with how they afford a flexible and mobile social life, with high network capital, with dispersed and personalised social networks and where coordinated arrangements and travel are necessary for the mundane business of meeting up, for doing social life.

I wonder how many people are already living the mobile life and how this is reflected according to age, gender and other sociodemographic factors. Does anyone have some statistical data on this?