Thanks to the Mr Mobile Blog for alerting me to this Microsoft beta technology. The technology is called Microsoft Tag.
Basically you install an application onto your BlackBerry, Windows Mobile device or iPhone. You can then just photo the tag with your phone and it’ll redirect you to a web page or any other online application.
It got me thinking. Imagine if you had a tag on every paper file in a law firm you could photo it with your BlackBerry and get instant access to the electronic details for that file. The WorkSite matter workspace, the InterAction client contact details or the financial information for that matter. Now if you had some way of opening all that information on your desktop PC by simply snapping the tag with your BlackBerry that might be the killer app!
Having downloaded the CAB file to my Nokia E71 I then created several MS TAG’s in minutes. The software although a tiny bit buggy, works well and the possibilities have fired up my imagination for there use. Our development team are coming up with new ideas by the minute…
Jason,
Nice! I had no idea about this. I like that you have the option of providing more help for end-users with the rendered tag so they know what to do with it. Now I have to figure out whether to have multiple barcodes on my business card.
John.