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2d codes make slow progress in the US

December 8, 2009 Sorin Adam Matei

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The Bits Blog reviews the current situation in the United States when it comes for tagging places with 2d codes.

If you walk past the gift shop of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, or Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, or Cheeseburger Baby in Miami, the chances are that you will see a sticker in the window that has a Google Maps logo and a one-inch-square with a series of pixelated black-and-white cubes called a QR Code.

via Putting a Bar Code on Places, Not Just Products – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.

Explore a whole new way to window shop, with Google and your mobile phone (googleblog.blogspot.com)
See That Funny 2D Barcode In The Store Window? It Might Pull Up A Google Listing. (techcrunch.com)
The web meets world: Google favourite places, Sixth sense and augmented reality (trak.in)
Why Google’s Slapping Decals on Small Businesses (mashable.com)

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Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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