Aral Balkan

I played a little with the Twittercode idea this afternoon -- it should make a great little installation piece. The cool thing about it is that you can actually take the content with you and interact with it even though you're viewing it on a wall somewhere. If a Twitter update has a URL in it, for example, and you view it with your phone, you have the whole text, including the clickable link, on your phone.

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• have fun continually scanning twits as they come in. Maybe you should have the twitter text as a caption to those bar codes? otherwise who knows what you're looking at.

  by eric dolecki on 2007-04-19 18:59:20

• Hey Aral, I love this idea - I'm a big fan of codes like this, been playing with and following several companies for a couple years now. Here is some info you might find interesting: Semacode: http://www.semacode.org/ and http://www.semacode.com/ Kaywa; http://www.kaywa.com/ and my personal favorite: ShotCodes: http://www.shotcode.com/ Each of them have a number of clients for a variety of phones. All three support almost all nokia series60 devices. Semacode has some open source based server code that might be cool to leverage as they have free licenses for educational/non-commerical use as well as commercial offerings. The guy behind is Simon Woodside is quite the whiz - he led the Marklar team at Apple (porting Mac OS X to Intel) I really like the ShotCode client though as it allows you to lock onto targets and track them in real time, and send telemetry data back/forth, and some other interesting options. Very cool mashup on this - I really like it - nice work! Rob

  by Robert M. Hall on 2007-04-20 01:03:43