| Author: | Stefano |
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| category: | Personal, QR-Codes |
I ran out of business cards recently, so I had to make new ones. I took the chance to indulge a bit over the QR-Code, a two-dimensional barcode you can find on everything in Japan. It's a pretty nice barcode system, very stable with respect to corruption and quite ok in terms of capacity. Among many others, there's a library (ZebraCrossing) to encode and decode QR-codes, and also online services are available for this (to decode and encode). Google charts can also be used to encode.
Ok, it's not particularly stylish (I've never been good in design and graphic arts), but it's definitely geeky! Since I am an artistically impaired geek, this card represents me pretty well. The idea is that you can take a picture of it (with your cellphone, for example) and with proper software installed on the cellphone a vcard-like format (MECARD) gets automatically imported in your contacts. The QR-Code contains nothing more than the text on the card (with some omissions to stay small). I'm pretty sure I'm not the first person having this gadget on his business card, but I still haven't seen it on someone else's card.