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SmoothWaterMan

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There is a fairly new optical scan app from Microsoft out, so if you are going to visit your boat shows this spring you may want to install the app to see what media information is waiting for you. Directions are simple - follow the link next to the first image from your phone to download the app.

First person to follow the links in these has bragging rights.

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One word of note, at least on the blackberry, it's better to have lots of white space around the image when you take a photo/scan of it. If you fill the picture with the icon it struggles.

Peter :)

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There is a fairly new optical scan app from Microsoft out, so if you are going to visit your boat shows this spring you may want to install the app to see what media information is waiting for you. Directions are simple - follow the link next to the first image from your phone to download the app.

First person to follow the links in these has bragging rights. PaulTag.jpg

Screenshot2011-03-09at111737PM.png

Screenshot2011-03-09at112603PM.png

TestTag.jpg

Screenshot2011-03-09at111727PM.png

One word of note, at least on the blackberry, it's better to have lots of white space around the image when you take a photo/scan of it. If you fill the picture with the icon it struggles.

Peter :)

Done! Ok that is a great app, Where else will these tags be available? Edited by Wakesetter67
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OK, I can admit that fact that I’m getting older and may not be as tech savvy as many others…but why do I want something that adds a bunch of colored dots to my pics?

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Done! Ok that is a great app, Where else will these tags be available?

I'm sure dealers will have them posted on boats or in their booth for shows. You may find them in dealerships, heck...you may find them in the newspaper since you can create them in black & white if desired. I believe you will start seeing them for informational links to a number of things or places. Drive by a house for sale, and on the real estate sign you see a tag - scan it (not sure to say scan or picture!) and immediately you are linked to the information.... pretty cool.

Here's an example ad - note the tag.

Tagged Ad

Peter

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These are handy, and you can use them to do lots of other things as well. Let's say for instance you have a business card, and would like anyone who sees it to be able to easily download a short video about your company. Go to http://tag.microsoft.com/consumer/index.aspx, type in a little basic info, including the link to the video, and then ask it to "render" the tag to add to your business card. Once you add it, anyone who downloads the app can scan that "tag" on your card, and without having to type in anything, they can see your video on their phone. You can easily set up your own tags that would do other things like: 1) let someone scan the "tag" on your business card, and it will download all your contact info; 2) put one in a magazine ad, and anyone who scans the tag can be taken directly to your web site (we did this for WakeJak in an ad we placed in Alliance Magazine); 3) you can set the tag up so that if you scan it, it will input a phone number and call it automatically (the person scanning it still has to push the "call button", 4) you could set up a tag at a restaurant at the front door, and it would download the menu to your phone; 5) Golf Digest puts them in instruction articles in the magazine, and links you to the video instruction. Lots of cool things you can do, and atleast right now it is free.

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Lots of magazines like Wakeboarding, Alliance etc are using these tags now. They are pretty cool. You can even purchase tickets for some events with these. Scan it from as poster , enter your credit card info and your done. Pretty cool. :thumbup:

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