Visual Tags at DevLearn08

October 3, 2008

The eLearning industry is taking a step into visual tagging this fall with the eLearning Guild announcement that each attendee at DevLearn08 will receive a personalized QR code containing their contact information. As we noted in earlier posts,

Visual tagging is useful in creating social networks around products and events [such as DevLearn08], augmenting people’s experience with places, mobile learning, and transacting eCommerce at websites, among other potential uses.

DevLearn08 plans to use QR codes for its v-Tags. Take a look at the video tutorials on how DevLearn08 plans to use v-Tags.

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Call them Visual Tags (v-Tags), not 2D Barcodes

August 13, 2008

A vTag for Skilful Minds generated with Google Chart API

For those who think discussions of semantic value and meaning are pointless, with no relationship to technology adoption, you may want to skip this post. 

We first discussed visual tags in 2006. Many people today refer to them as 2d barcodes. However, a crucial difference exists between what things are like and what they in fact are. Calling visual tags (v-Tags) 2d barcodes is like calling YouTube a video database, Flickr a photo database, or Del.icio.us a favorites list.  Literally, the description is accurate. Functionally, it is meaningless. Read the rest of this entry »

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