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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.
Comments
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 AMeey 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 AMCongrats Max. The barcode idea was exremely insightful.
Posted by: Bogdan Galiceanu | November 1, 2007 03:41 PMAnd thank you Tommi (and the Team) for mentioning me. You have no idea how stimulating it is to receive any kind of recognition.
Repeating myself again, we need a couple of things:
Posted by: Jukka Eklund | November 1, 2007 05:29 PM- free Barcode reader in all devices
- free code generator (already there)
- code generator on the phone would be handy too
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 PMGood topic! I add to bookmark :)
Posted by: Densis | November 1, 2007 09:26 PMAwesome teddy bear, congrats Max!
Posted by: Horia Stanescu | November 2, 2007 12:34 PM@Tommi: for November challenge us with a nice Finnish reindeer:-)
Have a nice wkd all of you!
The reindeer it is.
Posted by: Tommi Vilkamo | November 2, 2007 04:13 PMIt 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 AMGreat 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: MarcusAny 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