Archive for the 'Press' Category

Kommersant Article

Monday, August 10th, 2009

We just had an interview the russian daily kommersant about semapedia and the state of 2D barcodes in general:
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1211376
Love that they published the Bernie Madoff Tag:
http://www.kommersant.ru/dark-gallery.aspx?PicsID=354650&stpid=71
The google translation is hilarious:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kommersant.ru%2Fdoc.aspx%3FDocsID%3D1211376&sl=ru&tl=en&history_state0=

63% of Phones can install a QR Code Reader App

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

What?? As many of you probably know, Alexis and me run TigTags and PercentMobile together with Dave Harper. We provide professional mobile analytics. We have a comprehensive database of devices with tons of properties, one of them is whether the device supports QR Codes and what reader you can download. We ran a query over […]

G1

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

First thing I did when I got my T-Mobile G1 was installing the zxing barcode reader, worked without problems. Scanning of QR Codes is picture perfect, provides a good viewfinder and renders the result of the scan nicely by displaying the code and the resulting URL. Excellent job!
The barcode reader component also supports 1D […]

Alexis on German TV

Monday, October 13th, 2008

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/606282?inPopup=true
Check him out;) Overall a very very good piece on QR codes.

TV: Semapedia on 3sat this Sunday - Stay tuned

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Hi all, we just wanted to pass along that this Sunday, we’ll be featured on the german-speaking public TV channel 3sat. As far as it looks, we are going to talk about Semapedia.org, as an example for how people can use the open QR Code technology to create fun and engaging applications.
Ok, here […]

Wissen 2.0 - Semapedia on FTD.de

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Titled ‘Knowledge 2.0′, Andreas Halbert of Financial Times Germany wrote a very nice post on Semapedia this Friday.
He starts out describing the service step by step, encourages the reader to go and start tagging (with proper permission of course) and also makes notes on possible improvements (such as that our explanation are a bit […]

Semapedia in Arabic! As-Salamu Alaykum - السلام عليكم

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Everyone,
with great pleasure we want to announce the official lauch of the Arab version of Semapedia today! It is exciting for us to welcome new friends from Arab-speaking countries to join our quest to bring the right information to the places where it matters.
Without the incredible on-going help, patience and in-depth reviews […]

New York Times Magazine

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Alexis and me as true New Yorkers are of course super happy that the New York Times Magazine mentions semapedia in an article on QR code projects. Main focus is Roger Fischers fancy scarf. We hope that will drive more awareness in the USA to the possibilities of QR code. They also mention our other […]

Witaj and Bienvenido! - Semapedia in Polish and Spanish

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Dear all,
we are very excited to announce the official launch of Semapedia.org in Polish and Spanish!
To make this we are thankful for the support and ongoing help from Cezary Okupski for translating the Polish and Miguel Angarita from http://www.e-sanitas.edu.co/ for the Spanish version.
Thank you both, Cezary and Miguel for your ideas, help and […]

Wikimania

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

We just got back to Beijing from Taipei, Taipei was such a pleasant surprise, very lively and fresh city, no back water town at all, very modern in a charming way, lots of little sideroads filled with live. We went to the Wikimania all 3 days and enjoyed that it was much smaller then last […]