Last Saturday, I went to Taipei Fine Arts Museum for PORTA2030 which is presenting by TAKE2030 at the Taipei Biennale 2006. The Taipie Biennale 2006 is from 2006/11/04 to 2007/02/25.

(If you can not read the PORTA2030 web pages, change the browser character encoding setting into UTF-16 little endian.)

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遠傳電信在 2006 年四月順著達文西密碼的風潮,順勢推出了 QRCode 服務後,這半年來,推出了「行動條碼酷炫樂園」製碼服務,也陸續在帳單等行銷文宣上推廣行動條碼的相關應用。

遠傳電信除了在電信帳單夾頁上置入各種加值服務、圖鈴下載的 QRCode 連結外,更整合了遠傳行動錢包服務,在電信帳單後放上 QRCode,用戶可以掃描電信帳單上得 QRCode 完成帳單支付。除了自家印刷品,遠傳也開始跟蘋果日報合作,在《蘋果剪便宜週刊》上大量應用 QRCode,《蘋果剪便宜週刊》是在今年年中的新刊物,每週一出版,整本冊子都是吃喝玩樂的折價卷,零售新台幣五元。

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using-barcode.png微軟推出 Windows Live Barcode,這是一個利用 QRCode 製作名片的線上網站!

這個網站的功能非常簡單,只提供概念上的動畫說明,敘述如何將條碼應用於名片上,並提供文字與通訊錄製作的條碼產生軟體。很遺憾的,這個網站無法使用 Mozilla/Firefox 讀取。而且產生的通訊錄條碼是 BIZCARD 之規格,非 QRCode 常見的 VCARD, MECARD 或 MEMORY 格式 。目前市面上可以下載的軟體應該無一可正確辨認吧。

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A visitor lef a comment on my post “Linux Mobile Phone“. I try to answer this question here.

ohhh, You get a very thorough and impressive analysis here, as well as many insightful opinions.

I agree almost of your saying and share the same concern on mobile ecosystem progress in the approaching rich media era. With your great passion in this arena, you could be a great active PM to influce in this revolution.

But I wonder how does the factor plays between Technology Push and Market Pull here. Will be the customised phone more easily to use by the ordinary consumer?

Hi, Lu. I appreciate that you like my post, and you asked a very good question. I wrote that entry for hackers who want to build a mobile phone for themselves, and gave my view on linux-based mobile phone standards. It might be too geeky. However, I can answer your question in my humble opinion.

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