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Scan Any Product With Your Phone to Buy it on the Web

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This emerging application for mobile phone-based bar code scanning is what I call hard-wired web result. AT&T's ATTScanner app lets you scan a bar code which in turn takes you to a web site where you can buy the object you just scanned. I loaded up the app (released last year.

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“Nearest Tube” Early iPhone Augmented Reality App

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There’s a brief “demo&# on YouTube: The application, available only to Apple iPhone 3GS users, further cements the iPhone’s role as the great enabler for advances in mobile computing. Delivering practical consumer grade AR applications like Nearest Tube was impossible one year ago.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application.

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Switching to Impulse: Social Media Gets Faster

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The breakthrough has come through the ubiquity of smart phones, and let’s face it, the iPhone is the smartest, and thanks to Apple’s maniacal focus on the user interface and simplicity of use, it’s the platform of choice for mobile social media. For further proof, look at how mobile video uploads have taken off on YouTube.

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Baskin Robbins Sells 31-Cent Scoops With Smart Social Media

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We highly attribute our success to tactics such as the Donate Your Status application, Facebook event page, 31 Cent Scoop Night Twitter background, 31 Cent Scoop Night Facebook page, consistent updating and encouraging fans to post pictures during the event.