This makes a lot of sense, especially in Asia: Mobile Swine Flu Campaign from Singapore:



via Twitter: Mobile Swine Flu campaign from Singapore

See also:
Updated Pandemic Alert via Feed2Mobile and QR Code

MobilGlyph: Making Data Tangible

Our research in rural India for our Mobile Literacy project identified the task of entering and saving a contact information as the single most challenging tasks for non-literate users to perform. Yet it was a task identified as one of the most beneficial aspects of owing a mobile device.

[...] We then began to explore creative ways to make text and numeric information physical. Our question became: How might we make a physical representation of person’s name and phone number?

During our ideation sessions we tossed around a lot of ideas about tokens. When we looked across the mobile landscape, we realized QR codes and the QR code reader applications on many phones would be a viable solution for our text entry problem.

Introduction of QR Code Reader Library

Kenichi UENO:

For people who want to use QR Codes within the Flash environment, LOGOSWARE (the company I work for) has released a QR Code Reader into the Spark Project.

It is essentially a library that recognizes and decodes any QR Code from any image source.

Cliffano Subagio speaks about the many good QR Code examples he has seen in Japan.

And adds this video of QR Code Craziness.

Google's Sneaky Launch of Latitude's Location-Sharing API

Brady Forrest theorizes that we will see some of the following features added for a formal release of the API:

• User Control & OAuth
• iPhone Client
• Location History
• Data Control
• Additional Inputs
• Accuracy Control
• Reminders

See also:
Where 2.0 on Twitter and Where 2.0 Conference