So that QR Geek Lunch…
… was pretty damn good.
We had a huge turnout for the Tuttle Club. I got there around 10.30 and it was already standing room only. I spent the morning catching up with friends (which is a nice side effect of the Social Media Café) but failed miserably at meeting anyone new until our QR experts arrived for the Geek Lunch. By this time we were a small, but formidable little party.
Myself, Gia, Laura, Lee, Nik, Francine, Mecca, Suw, James, Martin, Andy, James, David and Kimm (we were also hoping to meet Anthony but he had to go back to Australia at short notice which was a shame). It was a nice range of expertise and interested geeks. The feedback so far has been great.
I think the most important thing that I took away from the discussion is that while Japan may be years ahead of us in their use of QR they haven’t really done anything inovative with the technology yet. It so quickly became accepted as part of day to day life that it kind of faded into the background. The same way that here we take a regular barcode for granted.
While others were more interested in the practical aspects of QR I’m hugely interested in making some very impractical projects so you’ll probably start seeing a lot more QR stuff around me.
Maybe even on me.
The most interesting thing that came up in conversation was when Mecca announced that Moo had opened up its API. This is a HUGE deal and I can’t wait to see what people come up with. Seeing as Moo have already been experimenting with matrix codes in their sticker books it was a logical step for them to open that procedure up to the users and they’ve done just that Richard Pope has done just that with the Barcode-Sticker-O-Matic.
I’m confident that this will be a big leap forward in generating interest in the codes. Once these little squiggly squares start turning up regularly at geek meets on moleskines and laptops things will get very interesting very quickly…
Then once the I-nigma reader gets embedded into your handset: BOOM.
Watch this space. And that one. And the one over there…
Yay! I can’t WAIT to see what people start doing with it. I think it’s going to be ‘us’ that really gets it going here. Weeeeee!
Dude.
LOVING the stick-o-matic - *added*
I’m gonna have some fun with that…
(and cheers for picking up my stuff too)
Gia - We should certainly take this groundswell forward.
James - Not a problem
Yeah, sorry all and I’m really disappointed I couldn’t make it, just had some last minute changes which meant I had to head back early, believe me when I say it was completely out of my control.
Having said that I hope to be back within the next month so perhaps it may to arrange another one!