Friday, September 13, 2013

QR codes, the most efficient way to talk about yourself

QR code (quick response code) was first designed for industrial uses in japan. It has become popular due to the fact that its fast readability and greater storage capacity compared to the standard UPC barcodes. Because of these facts, many applications such as product tracking, time tracking, item identification, website identification and more used the QR codes (Wikipedia). There are more reasons why QR codes have become so popular. QR codes nowadays in 2013 really easy to use and to generate. We can just use a smart phone with a scanner application and we can get the information behind the QR code. For example, we can go to a particular website just by doing a simple scan on that QR code and it will lead us to that website. We don’t have to type the entire website URL out. Moreover, we can also generate a QR code for the website we want by using some website which can generate the QE codes such as http://www.qrstuff.com/. It’s really easy to use and free. For example, the QR code above is my QR code for my blog. If I want to tell my friends about my blog, I don’t have to give them the entire URL but instead just give them this QR code and they can get to my blog easily. 

2 comments:

  1. This post clearly tells people what the QR codes are. From this post, I know the development history of QR codes. Just like you said, QR codes can spread so widely because of many reasons: its' convenience, its' unique identification and so on. In sum, your blog gives us one overrall situation about QR codes.

    In addition, the post will be wonderful if you split it into several paragraphs.

    In sum, it is a good post. Hopefully see your new one soon.

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  2. Nice post. I didn’t know that QR codes were designed in Japan, and no one else mentioned this simple fact on their blogs. It would have been nice to have a link to the Wikipedia article you referenced, but at least you linked to qrstuff.com. You are among the very few of us that actually explained how to generate a QR code, so great job. You also did a good job explaining why QR codes are useful.

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