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3 Tips to Use QR Codes For Information, Not Destination

Convince & Convert

Possess a smart phone. Download a QR reader app (or other format like Microsoft TAG). Have the phone nearby and usable when you encounter a QR code (easy in a magazine ad, perhaps less so for QR codes now appearing on highway billboards). QR codes ask a lot of prospective users.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

Augmented Reality (AR) is the ability to place computer-generated information, such as text and labels, on top of live real world data, such as video from a smart phone. What needs to happen in the enterprise space is for one or two brands to be so well understood, so feature rich, and so commonplace, as to achieve generic status.

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Does QR stand for Quasi-Ridiculous? (an analysis)

Convince & Convert

And indeed, given the increasing ubiquity of smart phones ( 41% in the U.S. From a branding and behavior likelihood perspective (the QR code dwarfs the URL, which is more likely to be used), this is misplaced design priorities, Exhibit A. I understand QR codes are the new “it&# thing, the Taylor Lautner of calls-to-action.

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Siteminis Launches Mobile Commerce Solution

Bill Hartzer

Have you been looking to turn mobile phone “browsers” into buyers? Now can now turn your mobile website into a brand consistent, fully functional m-commerce destinations without losing control or profits to third parties — regardless of the type of cell phone or carrier your customers use.

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What’s So Funny About Social Media and Online Marketing?

Webbiquity SMM

Highly creative take on Santa’s marketing and business brilliance, from branding (the red suit is instantlyrecognizable) to human resources (who’s ever heard of an unhappy elf?). Meet The Fune, Microsoft’s New Smart Phone (It’s Really Hot) by TechCrunch. Hard to Categorize.

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

I have literally copied the G&S description in Microsoft Word to check the word count, and it is 32 pages long and 16,728 words total. To give you an idea of what is typical for a trademark application, I would say that they “typical” description of goods and services is usually a few sentences, or a paragraph at best.