After the flashmob, here the flashcode

Good number among you saw this curious code which flowers a little everywhere in this moment on various supports.

It is presented under the appearance of a small square generally of 2,3cm of dimensioned, and resembles a mosaic made up of tiny black and white square.

Creates by the French Association of the Multi-media Mobile (all actors of the world of the mobiles) this cryptogram two-dimensional (2D) to be able it to store much more information than a code bar that is used for what? It is a means I would say rather ludic to make interactive the support on which it is affixed.

It gives access quickly contents. Coordinates for example: your name, first name, your mobile, your email in this case one speaks about flashcode direct), if you seek work why not direct your future employers towards your CV… on line!

On the Web: it could be a question of a bond towards your blog, towards a site, an account facebook, an account twitter, towards a video (one speaks about flashcode indirect).

It will be easy by the means of a photo catch of this code to then read it by the Flashcode reader installed on your portable.

One could imagine that you make for example an advertizing for your site with a suggestive image with this code on the back of a tee-shirt, a passer by could easily for example take in photograph this code and be simply to redirect towards your site with the reading of this code and all that without you to disturb and to really giving an account of it you!

Magazines, packing of various products, directories, publicity, shop of clothing, bags, badges, train ticket, sticker, the list is long and the various and many uses to render service, to bring a further information…

Hyperlivres are born, these new books which to the wire of the pages, by the means of codeflashs strewn with Ci beyond, return you to comments audio, video, in order to enrich the contents by the work or to make you react (to deliver your opinion at the end of each chapter for example).

Directories where you will be able to record a contact, a professional, a restaurant and to thus reach its schedules, services, reservation, routes, photographs…

It will be easy for you to note that good number of monuments, of tourist sites thus facilitate the visit of their places, you have thus in real-time various practical informations, schedules of spectacles, special offers, codes promotional on strange spot….

Other applications such as generating a phone call, to be redirected towards a band announces of a film, towards the last tube of a singer, a sending of SMS, ms, remote loading of application….

Only there is one but, even if Flash code seems to be a service moreover with the user of mobile phone (Iphone and androÏdes mainly) it does not remain about it less than the system remains not very accessible…

Indeed the AFMM by choosing the closed standard Datamatrix, does not plead in its favour to democratize such a service however quite useful in the life of every day, a considerable time-saver certainly but a standard which does not achieve the unanimity.

Japan him to selected an open standard “QR codes” since 1994 which seems to be essential in the world, indeed 90% of Japanese would have access to this service, which is not at all the case in France.
Then you will tell me this Calling card of the future, these “Operations of street marketing are not it a new whim of telephone operators (the AFMM) in order to take various measurements concerning your spending patterns…