Anyone use QR codes?

[Napoleon's Shadow]

Does anyone here use QR codes on a regular basis?

[tangent4ronpaul]

<img src="http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=8&d=http%3A%2F%2Fronpaul2012.com" alt="qrcode" />

QR Code generator:
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
http://delivr.com/qr-code-generator

Could get a lot of mileage out of these and some Avery sticker paper...

+rep

[Napoleon's Shadow]

Could get a lot of mileage out of these and some Avery sticker paper...Please expound upon this idea?

[tangent4ronpaul]

print a bunch up, cut them up and stick them everywhere. Encode URL's and maybe add a few words to peak curiosity

[TonySutton]

This is leading edge technology. It is just really starting to take hold as more and more companies use them. You will see more and more of them over the next year. I believe this could work very well on college campuses. Maybe have the sticker say something about Ending the War or Personal Freedoms and then have the qr code link to a specific web page with content on RPs stance on the topic.

Might also be cool to make one for Tips and post them at restaurants

[teacherone]

fairly certain the technology will go nowhere. it's similar to the infrared cell phone advertising which phased out into obscurity very quickly.

[specsaregood]

fairly certain the technology will go nowhere. it's similar to the infrared cell phone advertising which phased out into obscurity very quickly.

Dunno, just the other day I stumbled upon one on the back of a 10yr old whirlpool clothes washer.

[McDermit]

We really ought to be adding them to grassroots literature... the blackthisout flyers could definitely benefit from using them.

Munzees are really big in my area now, so it's common to see QR cdes plastered all over the place and you'll see people stopping to scan them. Popular with college kids and twenty-somethings.

But even my mom learned to use QR codes this year, as several of her favorite magazines use them in their ads.

[McDermit]

print a bunch up, cut them up and stick them everywhere. Encode URL's and maybe add a few words to peak curiositySomeone started this already.
http://r3volution2.org/

[notsure]

heck no.

But even if I did use them, I wouldn't just go around scanning random codes, especially if I don't know what they're for. I would imagine that they could be vulnerable to malicious items like viruses or malware just like a computer. But that's just my personal, paranoid, habit. I'm sure they're all the rage, I'm just an old-fashioned type. How do they work really? Do you have to be right up on the code to scan it or can it be scanned from a distance, say a couple yards or so away?

[refuge]

I'm seeing these ALL over the place; on cans of food, ketchup bottles, even printed on tables at the cafe.

I don't have a smart phone, so I can't go the links embedded in the code, but I know a lot of people to like going to that type of thing. I'm in a very liberal college, and Ron's message of peace is worth promoting here. I think pasting these around may actually be a good idea.

[TheState]

We've started using these on YAL brochures and flier, rather than using long, ugly URL's that no one will use.

http://i54.tinypic.com/35cejbn.png

[teacherone]

^^^wow that is a great flyer.

i love the left vs right bit at the end.

[ronpaulhawaii]

People need to be careful with these things


The growing popularity of Quick Response (QR codes) on smart phones has officially become a new distribution vehicle for malware on Android devices.
According to security researchers at Kaspersky Lab (important disclosure: my employer (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/page/disclosure/324)), hackers are are using QR codes posted on web sites to redirect smart phones to other sites hosting an Android trojan.
Once a user scans the QR code (using special apps), the code redirects (https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/qr-codes-found-sending-users-site-containing-android-trojan-093011) them to a site that will install a Trojan on their phones.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/hackers-using-qr-codes-to-push-android-malware/9522

[PastaRocket848]

QR will take it's last breath when Apple announces NFC support for iOS. until then... it's placeholder tech at best.

[Kluge]

QR will take it's last breath when Apple announces NFC support for iOS. until then... it's placeholder tech at best.
I really doubt either will become popular. It's a tiny, tiny niche great for college campuses and not really anything else. It's a novelty. There really aren't *that* many people who want to stare at a tiny cell phone screen all day.

[Revolution9]

I really doubt either will become popular. It's a tiny, tiny niche great for college campuses and not really anything else. It's a novelty. There really aren't *that* many people who want to stare at a tiny cell phone screen all day.

They are perfect for events like the Olympics or an y large event where you stick them all around and they can find out where they are and what is going on elsewhere.

Rev9