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Nov 6
2009

Nat Torkington

Four short links: 6 November 2009

Barcode Scanning, Downloadable Community Book, Gov Hack Day, Android Kludges

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | comments: 1

  1. Red Laser -- "impossibly accurate barcode scanning". Uses Google Product Search to identify products that you scan using the camera on the phone. I remember Rael and I talking to Jeff Bezos about this years ago, before camphones had the resolution to decode barcodes. The future is here and it's $1.99 on the App Store ... (via Ed Corkery on Twitter)
  2. The Art of Community For Free Download -- Jono Bacon's O'Reilly book on community management now available for free download (still available for purchase!).
  3. Gov Hack -- Australian government ran a hack day with their open data, this is their writeup.
  4. Android Mythbusters -- slides for talk by Matt Porter at Embedded Linux Conference Europe. A (long) catalogue of the kludges in Android.


tags: android, augmented reality, book related, community, gov2.0, hacking, linux | comments: 1
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Sean [2009-11-06 01:41 PM]

Amazon android app (free) scans barcodes and will even find products by just taking a picture of the product without a barcode in the frame!

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