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Haven't tried it (not in the US), but it sounds neat: Having a bookmarklet makes invoking it painless, and opening an URL from an SMS should be easy from most p
by morsch 15y ago
Haven't tried it (not in the US), but it sounds neat: Having a bookmarklet makes invoking it painless, and opening an URL from an SMS should be easy from most phones. I'm assuming the SMS delivery is basically instant. It's also cross-platform on both ends.
That said, these days I just use Fox To Phone (or Chrome to Phone) to accomplish this. This platform-specific solution works better than sending an SMS would. It also does a few things in addition to just transferring URLs.
In the past, I had a browser extension that created a 2d barcode for the current page. It worked in a pinch, but scanning the barcode with the phone is relatively time-consuming and, overall, just a nuisance. FWIW, you could do the barcode thing with a bookmarklet, too, and end up with a solution that's cross-platform on both ends.
- sahillavingia 15y agoI used SMS because it is a) ubiquitous and b) already used by almost everyone. Scanning barcodes is (at least right now) neither.
- franze 15y agohere is a QR bookmarklet thing i built two years ago http://miniqr.com/docs/bookmarklet.php http://miniqr.com/docs/bookmarklet.php but yeah, i know the usage stats, and well the short version is: QR codes are doomed. your sms approach sounds good, let's see if it takes off.
- morsch 15y agoThey seem to be pretty widespread these days as a means to transmit information (mostly URLs) from physical reality to smartphones. I rarely if ever scan them, but that's due to the context: why would I scan the URL on some kind of ad poster? I saw a QR code that was printed a few feet tall the other day, letting you scan it from across the plaza; that's pretty cool. I still think you could build some pretty neat "worldly" easter eggs by hiding QR codes around cities.
- mseebach 15y agoI was passing by a museum last week, and they had some exhibit in the public space in front, and on the small board describing it, there was a QR code for a YouTube video of an actor narrating something related to the exhibit. The fact that the paternalist description of the QR code ("A kind of bar-code for the future [blah blah] go into the "APP store"[sic] and search for [blah blah]...") was more prominent than the code itself detracted somewhat from the feeling of being in the future, but that was the first useful application I've seen in the wild.
- jonah 15y agoI was at a store opening on Friday and they had a small (4x4) QR code in the window. The caption was simply: Shop Online I thought that use case was pretty compelling.