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3 Key Features to Blog from a Smart Phone

Idaconcpts

However, after watching the launch of the Samsung Epic 4G from Sprint on August 2010, it made me rethink about the 3 key features that I would need to blog from a smart phone more often. My iPhone 3G blogging experience made it very clear that to properly blog from a smart phone you must have a full-slide out QWERTY keyboard.

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Youtube Tuesday: Pink Ponies

Firebelly

I know they said the party went viral, but we would have loved to have seen digital cameras, Flips, laptops and smart phones out on the table for easy updates and sharing! Video URL: [link] ]. Beautiful example of what might happen if an ad agency planned a little girl’s birthday party.

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3 Tips to Use QR Codes For Information, Not Destination

Convince & Convert

Possess a smart phone. 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). This is the case with the increasingly popular use of QR codes in place of Web URLs. QR codes ask a lot of prospective users.

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How to Make a QR Code for Your Web Site

Bill Hartzer

In short, it’s a barcode that you can scan (usually using an iPhone or Smart Phone) and when you scan it you are taken to a web site. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data. Enter the URL, Text that you want displayed, a Phone Number, or even an SMS (a message). What exactly is a QR Code?

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Why QR Codes are Important for Websites?

Bill Hartzer

With smart phones taking over online operations, it is imperative that you make your site as user friendly or mobile friendly as possible. QR codes in websites will let your mobile instantly access websites without encountering the cumbersome process of entering the URL in the tiny mobile web browser.

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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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Switching to Impulse: Social Media Gets Faster

Socialized

We’ve recently had an obsession with brevity in the form of Twitter, and shortened URLs for example. I have had many camera phones and many digital cameras but it’s only since I got my (original) iPhone that I have posted images to my blog and Twitter via Flickr and Twitpic. Social media just got faster.

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