Archive for the 'Tools' Category

A watershed moment for barcodes?

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

That came in via a google alert on semapedia:
“Scanbuy, a global leader in mobile marketing solutions, today announced that it has secured a global agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to preload the ScanLife mobile 2D barcode application on Samsung’s camera phones.”
CEO Jonathan Bulkeley of Scanbuy went so far as to call the agreement a
“watershed […]

Quickmark iPhone QR code reader

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com.
Can’t believe that I only discovered that today, 10 days after the post!
Looks very very promising.

New Tools

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Came across that today, their website says it is capable of doing 2D barcodes, we should order one! I asked them for a quote.
http://www.laserphotonics.com/products/fiberlasermark/handheld.php
Credits: http://www.engraveyourtech.com/2008/03/05/handheld-laser-danger/

IPhone QRCode Reader

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

News just in, Max Metral from http://boston.povo.com has been working on a QRCode reader for (jailbroken) IPhones and is looking for testing and coding support.
Here the quick facts:

You, yes, you are invited to join the coding party (especially handling low light situations of the reader).

The party is at http://code.google.com/p/iphone-qrcode/ (For a quick look, […]

ZXing - Google’s 2D barcode reader for Android coming!

Monday, November 12th, 2007

At this weekend’s MobileCampNYC2, during Dave Harpers 2D barcode track, we got a sneak-peek preview on Google’s efforts to create a 2D barcode reader software as part of the upcoming Android operating system. It is called ‘Zebra Crossing’ - or ZXing in short, will read QR Codes, Datamatrix and UPC, and is currently in […]

Semapedia Google Group

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

We finally got around to create a semapedia google group. We sincerely
hope that this will help semapedia to move forward. Up until now
Alexis, Hector and me received a lot of emails with suggestions,
critique and so on. Quite often we don’t find the time to reply with
the needed thoroughness and detail. We hope that the […]

Ch:Ch:Changes

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

We are pleased to announce the traditional Chinese Version of semapedia, check it out under:

http://zh.semapedia.org/
This is the work of our supporter Rex Tsai which is also the host of the upcoming wikimania conference 2007 (we hope to be there!) in August. Thanks so much Rex!! The translation is actually live since a few month […]

Finding Wikipedia Articles

Friday, May 18th, 2007

A friend of ours recently asked us about some utilities to find wikipedia articles close to you. Lots of wikipedia articles have geographic data embedded like this Article on Vatican City, you can see the coordinates in the upper right, clicking on the coordinates leads you to mapping tools helping you to locate the article […]

N73 and N80

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

In his great 2D barcode manifesto Tommi’s mentions that there will nokia barcode readers available for the n73 and the n80. Good times!

RSS RSS RSS

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Yes, we finally added some feeds to our site to let you track what’s going on in semapedia land.
Choose and add them to your favourite RSS aggregator.
Keep track of the latest tags created:
http://www.semapedia.org/community/latest_tags_rss
The most current geotagged tag sightings using GeoRSS:
http://www.semapedia.org/community/geo_rss
And last but not least the feed for this very blog of course:
http://www.semapedia.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2