Comments on: Mobile Geeks of… Marks & Sparks? [UPDATED with QR Code Quick-Reference]

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:13:22 +0000

weeeel…no religion here Ben

…but why try to teach people something else, instead of slapping 2 characters (m.) in front of your own URL? Helps re-enforce that too.

I think the world has spoken anyway: .mobi = margin-of error uptake. Move on, nothing to see here….

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:55:28 +0000

I realise this is something approaching a religious debate for industry-types, but I honestly don't believe 'real people' give a monkey's... m.bla.com or bla.mobi both make them expect it to be a mobile service (probably) and .mobi makes that even clearer for normobs (probably), but otherwise who gives a cr*p?

For something printed on a small product I would probably choose .mobi just so my brand name wasn't sandwiched between other characters and got better recognition, but that would be about the extent of the worry I expended on the decision.

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:46:59 +0000

Interesting they chose .mobi … with less than 4% of the mobile domain market share… what was wrong with m.mands.com?

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:35:08 +0000

You don't have to if you already have one – there's nothing special about the apps they offer. It's just my aging N82 (and many others I suspect, including iPhones) don't have a suitable app by default.

By: Mike Bradshaw

Mike Bradshaw — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:55:43 +0000

any particular reason you needed to download their special reader program?

Just checking, but did you know there is a reader program supplied with S60 handsets (at least there is on the E90, it's in the Tools folder)

By: Michael_Josefowicz

Michael_Josefowicz — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:36:06 +0000

Any explanation of the difference beyond the way they look. What does a datamatrix code do that a QR doesn't do?

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:52:43 +0000

Dammit! Thanks for picking me up on that error. I've corrected the post and added a quick note on the difference.

Mental note: not all square blobby things = QR Codes.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:06:56 +0000

But is it a genuine consumer initiative or just a way of selling an extra juice to we geeky types? (Incidentally, I'm told it's a Data Matrix code, not a QR code – whatever the difference is!)

By: JebBrilliant

JebBrilliant — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:48:42 +0000

I love to see technology in action. How can we bring this kind of thing to the US???