Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Bee Tag

Hi,

So in our office meeting, we talked about this crazy new thing called Bee Tag. Its almost like a barcode that takes you directly to a website.

An Example of a Bee Tag:




To use this tag, you have to do a few things. First you have to download an application on your Iphone, DROID, or BlackBerry, just go to your AppStore or Droid Market and search Bee Tag. After you open up the application, your phone camera will pop up. Aim the camera at the Bee Tag and wait for it to recognize the code. What this will do is take you directly to this website on your phone. You might be asking yourself, what is the point of doing all that, when all I really need to do is type www.conordunn.com into my phone's browser and it will take me to the website? You are correct in this thinking, for a website that is easy to remember it's probably not important, but for a website that is www.supercalifragilisticexpialidoscious.com, it is much easier to open an app on your phone, one click and you are there.

Here's why it is important for me as a real estate agent. If I have a house to sell, I can actually put the Bee Tag image on the sign out in front of the house. If someone has the Bee Tag app, all they have to do is take out their phone and click a picture with Bee Tag and it can take them directly to my Real Estate website or a website that maybe I have created for this specific house. That way they have all of the specs of the house right while they are standing there. It's pretty crazy technology and probably one step closer to everyone have neck tatoo bar codes but hey, for my purposes, it's pretty cool. Give it a try with my Bee Tag and let me know if it takes you to this site directly on your phone!

Conor

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I have seen a lot of systems like this. It would be great if one actually catches on. http://interactivesnack.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/2d-codes-qr-code-datamatrix-code-microsoft-tag-bee-tag-and-resources/

Dave said...

AKA a barcode...

Mark said...

www.supercalifragilisticexpialidoscious.com is super easy to remember. You and your bee tags can suck it... Nah - it's pretty cool though.