http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress Semapedia.org - Bringing Wikipedia knowledge to the real world. Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:38:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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= http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=185 Neomedia holds the patent 6,199,048 for indirect resolution of barcodes : 1.) the user initiates the code scan on his device and the scanner software retrieves the Identifier encoded in the barcode 2.) the scanner sends the Identifier to a online service to retrieve the associated URL 3.) the scanner is ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=184 Interesting Article on QR Codes and the US, yes there is a future for QR codes in the US. http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=138154 What I find really amusing about the article are the comments, always those stupid patent claims by neomedia. Wonder why they not get tired of that, they don’t have the QR Code ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=183 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. ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=182 Last weekend we went for a family trip up north to Detroit. It always confuses me to see such a large and important city in such state of decay in a nation that calls itself the leading country of world, clearly not, not when the nation lets a city ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=181 Over the years we have been harvesting a mobile device database for our TigTags service and decided to use it to provide a QR Code Reader download service. Simply visit: http://tigtags.com/getqr with your mobile device and we see if we have a QR Code Reader for you. We didn’t include every QR ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=180 Sad, but true: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/NeoMedias-Barcode-Lookup-bw-14397693.html What I don’t understand is if that covers direct QR Codes with the URL embedded as well. All the patents I have seen so far were describing indirect barcode usage that require a trip to the server to get the URL and send the URL back to the ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=179 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 ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=178 http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/606282?inPopup=true Check him out;) Overall a very very good piece on QR codes. http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=177 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 ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=176 Over the course of the last weeks we have been testing some QR Code Readers for the iPhone and we are happy to give you a recommendation if you are still looking for a good one. It quickly came down to two readers the Neomedia NeoReader and the Beetagg Reader. ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=175 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 ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=174 Our great supporters from Tagorg.com in Jordan managed to tag Sea Level, awesome idea!! See for yourself: http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=173 Been trying the Beetag Reader for Palm Devices on a Palm Centro, worked really well, can only recommend it. Also tried them on our www.videomeetsfunction.com project to see how it handles streaming video from youtube, not bad at all (Sprint PCS Network), pretty good quality! http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=172 Those are very good news, no Schadenfreude, but we are so glad that those ridiculous patent claims by the patent troll neomedia got rejected, they included reading an ID from a barcode or RFID chip from a cellphone, sending it to server, resolving it to a URL and sending the ... http://blog.semapedia.org/wordpress/?p=171