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October 31, 2007 Nokia Beta Labs Contributor of the Month, October 2007: Max Waterman Posted by Tommi at 07:48 PM | Categories: Nokia Beta Labs

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And the most valuable contributor of Nokia Beta Labs in October 2007 is... Max Waterman!!!

Yay!!!

Justification: Max's brilliant idea for using 2D barcodes to point directly to application downloads. While we haven't implemented this to Nokia Beta Labs website yet, many others have already embraced Max's idea - see for example here and here.

Prize: the official Nokia Beta Labs teddy bear, wearing a white t-shirt with a barcode pointing at Nokia Beta Labs website.

Max: please send me (tommi dot vilkamo at gmail dot com) the address where to ship the bear!

A honourable mention for October 2007 contribution goes to Bogdan Galiceanu for his active contribution and insightful feedback (suggested by Device Status team). Thanks Bogdan - keep it up and you might also win a fancy teddy bear some day.

Previous winners:
September '07: Ed from eseries.org
August '07: Stefan Constantinescu

Update: comments thread closed. Nokia Beta Labs blog and all related discussions have been moved to http://betalabs.nokia.com/blog.


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congrats max! as always I love to give feedback and bring up new ideas to improve stuff :). I don't know if there is one, but you could build a link2barcode generator. this way people can change any url to a barcode with a single button! this would really improve the usability :) I'm starting to be pleased with nokia and my e65 ^^ I really think they listen to their users, eventhough there are tonnes of complaints on the nokia forum these days.

Posted by: jeroen | November 1, 2007 09:38 AM

> you could build a link2barcode generator

We have: http://mobilecodes.nokia.com

It's one of the items in our Beta Labs. How do you like it?

Posted by: Tommi Vilkamo | November 1, 2007 10:01 AM

eey tommi! wow I really like :P quite a nice concept to implement digital in our reallife world. I gues its a question of time before print (advertising) will pick this feature up, I might give it a push as I'm an marketing employee of the dutch marktleader in online/print media :)

Posted by: jeroen | November 1, 2007 11:11 AM

Congrats Max. The barcode idea was exremely insightful.
And thank you Tommi (and the Team) for mentioning me. You have no idea how stimulating it is to receive any kind of recognition.

Posted by: Bogdan Galiceanu | November 1, 2007 03:41 PM

Repeating myself again, we need a couple of things:
- free Barcode reader in all devices
- free code generator (already there)
- code generator on the phone would be handy too

Posted by: Jukka Eklund | November 1, 2007 05:29 PM

Congratulations Max!
Thanks to Tommi for mentioning my blog too.

Btw, I like to teddy bear. It's very cute. Can I have one? No, just kidding. :)

Posted by: Antony Pranata | November 1, 2007 06:09 PM

Good topic! I add to bookmark :)

Posted by: Densis | November 1, 2007 09:26 PM

Awesome teddy bear, congrats Max!
@Tommi: for November challenge us with a nice Finnish reindeer:-)
Have a nice wkd all of you!

Posted by: Horia Stanescu | November 2, 2007 12:34 PM

The reindeer it is.

Posted by: Tommi Vilkamo | November 2, 2007 04:13 PM

It would be great if you could push this idea to Mosh - it'd save some money on SMSing links to applications on people's phones (I'm not sure which is more convenient - must be close).

Posted by: Max Waterman | November 7, 2007 05:36 AM

Great idea

BUT, any idea for a reader which can read 2D code received on mobile by bluetooth or sms ? instead of from the camera phone...
Any ide, help

Thks

Marcus

Posted by: Marcus [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 8, 2007 12:16 PM

Any idea why the Nokia bar code reader isn't available on all mobile phones. From :

http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/scan.htm

"Nokia N93, N93i, N95 or E90" (preinstalled) + N80.

What's so special that it won't work on other phones, although other company's versions do?

Max.

Posted by: Max Waterman | November 18, 2007 05:30 AM

> Any idea why the Nokia bar code reader isn't available on all mobile phones

Don't know. But when I was still working with the concept, we wanted to ensure a decent user experience, and therefore had some technical requirements for the device (requiring autofocus/macromode).

Posted by: Tommi Vilkamo | November 20, 2007 02:26 PM


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