Comments on: Tagging Your World to Wikipedia – Semapedia

By: » CogDog Gets Coded! Mobile Learning

» CogDog Gets Coded! Mobile Learning — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:24:31 +0000

[...] has a QR Code (perhaps the online equivalent of getting microchipped? )! He’s had a look at Semapedia and now also sports a QR Code on his blog sidebar, which provides a handy link to a mobilised [...]

By: Feeding Mobile » CogDogBlog

Feeding Mobile » CogDogBlog — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:48:11 +0000

[...] codes- those bar codes which can link mobiles to web content. I got interested in them a bit when I stumbled across Semapedia, a web tool for putting bar codes in the world that link locations to info in [...]

By: Smart codes : Wonderful Thoughts

Smart codes : Wonderful Thoughts — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:39:16 +0000

[...] Alan Levine I discovered Semapedia and smart codes – a kind of two-dimensional barcode, encoding of a URL or [...]

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:11:04 +0000

True Marg – standards are always an issue but if you look at mobile phones and mobile devices they are a very unstable platform if compared to computers. So it is much easier to design and plan for a computer than it is currently for a mobile device especially a mobile phone.

Sue

By: Marg

Marg — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:38:24 +0000

Good time for a reality check Alan! You’ve prompted me to write a brief follow-up post… I’m left asking those stratgic-type questions!
Looking forward to talking more with you when you visit the ACT in Oct!
Marg

ps. Sue, standards are always an issue…we learn as we go! I have no trouble with Wikipedia pages rendering on my phone, so obviously the variance is noticeable across phone browsers etc!

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:11:44 +0000

Well my issues go back to “I lack a phone even capable of tis stuff”.

While bar codes, 3D bar codes, RFID and NFC are all great ideas and have huge potential for learning the fact that their potential is limited by access to devices that you can use them on is the issue.

Of all the mobile devices — mobile phones and the mobile web is the most unstable platform because there is non-conformity in operating system and there are too many different mobile web browsers. Eventually one day this platform will stabilise, I hope, and this is when we will see the potential of these applications for learning eventuate. Currently mobile technology is advancing at a rapid pace– what looks like a solution today may not be tomorrow.

BTW Leonard Low commented on the original article with “To ensure your content is mobile-friendly if you’re thinking of playing with this, consider linking to Wapedia (http://www.wapedia.org/en/) rather than Wikipedia. Wapedia converts Wikipedia articles to a compact, mobile-friendly format. ”

So at the moment my vote is cool — but not quite there yet for practical applications.

Sue
PS early in morning and I have probably made no sense.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:35:20 +0000

A few of us at work are interested in this idea as well… Semapedia, ThingLinks– after hearing Bruce Sterling talk about the Internet of Things a while back I’ve been keeping my ears open for more advances in the merge between life and objects (and second life).

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any evidence that a QR Code tattoo that works is possible– otherwise I’d be tagged already!