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Good Things Come In Three’s: Add operators to Winksite And Shotcode

Published by Martin Sauter January 17th, 2007 in 3G, Mobile Content, Announcements, Analysis, User-Experience, Usability, Mobile Culture, Conversations Tags: 3G, Analysis, Announcements, Mobile Content, Mobile Culture, usability, user experience.

In his earlier post Rudy commented on Winksite and Shotcode working together for a better mobile user experience. Winksite now includes Shotcode and QR-Codes on it’s web pages which lists blogs and other web sites that use their service to create a mobile friendly version of their content.

Users browsing Winksite on their PC to search for interesting content to read on the go can now simply use the camera of their mobile phone to scan the two dimensional bar code next to the description of the site to access it from their phone and to set a bookmark.

Despite the excitement, one crucial ingredient is still missing to make mobile web browsing attractive not only for you and me but for everybody:The mobile network operator. Once some of them follow 3’s X-series program to partner with Internet companies the final usability gap will close as bar code readers will be pre-installed on mobile phones and Internet access via the mobile phone becomes affordable and transparent. Let’s hope it happens rather sooner than later before the 2G barcode landscape diversifies even more.

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3 Responses to “Good Things Come In Three’s: Add operators to Winksite And Shotcode”

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1 kosmar Jan 18th, 2007 at 5:10 am

sounds awesome on first tought and shotcode is great. see this guy putting shotcodes in the real world to connect locations with plazes profiles: http://www.datenform.de/plazemark.html

but shooting codes from the screen for bookmarking to read later on the run might be just one step too much. wouldnt you prefer to use something like http://mobilicio.us/ for that reason without involving the camera at all?

of course you are perfectly right about operators and manufacturs. the lack of standards and further diversion will end in a format war while losing any hook for the consumer. you cant sell this to advertising without a broader spread and standard.
2 todd Feb 15th, 2007 at 8:19 am

Happening in the Philippines with Nextcodes mCode and SMART: http://www.chette.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemid=1&pop=1&page=0#thecomments