Into the Void

Experimental interface to the Bipolar Planet mobile community on Winksite. You can access the site directly from your mobile phone at http://winksite.mobi/bpplanet/m.

Want a free Bipolarplanet.mobi QRCode t-shirt? Be one of the first 5 people to join the mobile community then pop back here and leave a comment. I’ll need your email address so I can contact you for snail mail address - don’t worry, your address won’t appear in the comments.

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MYTAGO - do magic with your phone

Yes, it’s Yet Another Meatspace Tag. This one requires a free membership to get the tags. Seems like a bit of a privacy hassle.

MYTAGO is a little different from QRCode or Shotcode. There’s no phone app. Instead, take a picture of the tag and use one of these methods to get the tag data -a bookmark and description:

• Take a picture of the tag image. Next time you sync your phone to your PC, upload the jpeg image to the MYTAGO site to get the tag data.
• Enter the URL of an online tag image and get the tag data.
• Type the 12 digit code from a tag image into the MYTAGO site to get the tag data.
• Install an Uploader Tool on your PC.
• Email the tag image or the 12-digit tag code to yourusername@mytago.com with your PIN as the email subject line. The tag data will be available next time you log into MYTAGO.

I think I’ll name my next dog
“Hash: b2e189abf85e809a51522cdb0e53083a”

I found Don Park’s site (see below, Identicons) while searching for 2D codes such as ShotCode and QRCode. Once I get everything tagged, life is going to be much simpler.

Ok, so Don had links to some other fun icon sites, and I’d like to share them.

This one, created in php by Charles Dark of Visual Consumption, uses the same concept but a different implementation to build a colorful 9-code “Visiglyph” of your IP address.

This avatar, also based on IP address, can be found at planetOzh. I like mine. It’s purple.

And here’s your identicon:

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I’ve been playing with the .mobi stuff and discovered that 2D codes have a use other than to count packs of cigarettes. I can put my web site URL into a QR-Code or a ShotCode, print it on stickers, and stick the stickers to things. Then folks can point their cellphone cameras at the code block and the URL will show up in their phone as a clickable hypertext link.

I was thinking I could sell my bumperstickers that way, put the QR-Code on them.

There is a nice java app for cell phones at QuickMark Mobile Barcode - Web Site QuickMark. This app also reads SemaCode. Some fun! QR-Code even has error correction built in so that if the code block is torn or partly obliterated the app can still get the information out of it.

    


Create your own code with the QR-Code Generator.

Another 2D code is ShotCode. This one is targeted for advertisers. You have the option of logging all kinds of information about the cell phone and user.