The guys from Quickmark just told me about their QR Code Reader in continuous mode. As Kaywa doesn't offer one yet for the iPhone, we think that this is the most interesting QR Code Reader for the iphone yet.


From Quickmark

Smart camera applications at ETH Zurich on Monday April 6, 2009

There’s much more to the camera in a mobile phone than only a device for taking photos. The value of the camera phone above and beyond a digital camera is the result of integration of the camera with other mobile handset hardware and software, and services.

In this meeting we will be describing and discussing the many applications, native and which may be added to the camera phone by the user, that enrich images, extract information from the user’s environment and add to the utility and fun of mobile platforms.

Participants: Christine Perey, Daniel Wagner, Herbert Bay, Roger Fischer, Juha K. Laurila

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The sticker below is an absolutely inofficial addition to the event, however I think it can work as a good example. I already wrote about Simple Attendance Management in a recent post and naturally this could apply here as well.

DokoDare Sticker for Semper Aula: DokoDare - Semper Aula Sticker (PDF)

Scanning the QR Code of the DokoDare Sticker brings the following benefits:

• Bookmark the address and the room now and don't bother searching for the address later
• Checkout the map when you are nearby
• Read more about the Semper Aula
• See what other places (e.g. transport, bars etc) are in the neighbourhood
• At your arrival check in; see who else already checked in
• Exchange short messages during the event
• Start following people who are interesting

UPDATE (16.3.09):
Interesting: Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense at TED Conference

What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09

[...] But it's too early for that to be the next stage of the web. We got nice cellphones, which are ubiquity in practice, we got GPS, geolocativity, but too much of the hardware just isn't there yet. The batteries aren't there, the bandwidth is not there, RFID does not work well at all, and there aren't any ubiquity pure-play companies.

So I think what comes next is a web with big holes blown in it. A spiderweb in a storm. The turtles get knocked out from under it, the platform sinks through the cloud. A lot of the inherent contradictions of the web get revealed, the contradictions in the oxymorons smash into each other.

The web has to stop being a meringue frosting on the top of business, this make-do melange of mashups and abstraction layers

[...] A lot of issues that Web 1.0 was sweating blood about, they went away for good. The "digital divide," for instance. Man, I hated that. All the planet's poor kids had to have desktop machines. With fiber optic. Sure! You go to Bombay, Shanghai, Lagos even, you're like "hey kid, how about this OLPC so you can level the playing field with the South Bronx and East Los Angeles?" And he's like "Do I have to? I've already got three Nokias." The teacher is slapping the cellphone out of his hand because he's acing the tests by sneaking in SMS traffic.

"Half the planet has never made a phone call." Boy, that's a shame -- especially when pirates in Somalia are making satellite calls off stolen supertankers. The poorest people in the world love cellphones. They're spreading so fast they make PCs look like turtles.

Digital culture, I knew it well. It died -- young, fast and pretty. It's all about network culture now.