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What if I send a picture of a barcode w/ the text "buy" and bam.. it shows up in the mail a few days later.

• danw 19y ago
  Perfect, bringing the impulse of real world transaction to ecommerce. Could even do it with a normal upc barcode instead of Qr/semacode. Imagine being to do that with a music CD and the songs automagically start downloading to your phone (possible iPhone app?)
  • far33d 19y ago
    That would be very cool... I've read that scanning regular barcodes with a cameraphone is difficult, but I believe there are some people making headway with it. If it were music, I'd rather just make a call to a number, have it listen to whatever song is in the background, and then download it for me. Fred Wilson has talked about txt based commerce a bit as well - http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/01/texting-in-purc.html http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/01/texting-in-purc.html
    • danw 19y ago
      I think you can do the phone call music purchasing in the UK with Shazam (2580)