How Barcodes and Smartphones Will Rearchitect Information – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review
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For many years I’ve wanted to be able to link any physical object (e.g from the marketplace) to anything digital about that object (e.g. all the information in the marketspace). I call this linking of physical information to the digital information about itFindIt! search, and I think we are finally starting to get there. eBay just announced that it bought Redlaser, a company that allows anyone with the Redlaser application on his or her iPhone to scan a barcode.
To be continued at http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/06/how_barcodes_and_smartphones_w.html
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Posted on 2010/06/28, in CRM, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Web 2.0 and Information Technology,, Vision, visionaries, vision things, trends and tagged EBay, Handhelds, Harvard Business Review, Harvard University, iPhone, Massachusetts, Smartphones, United States. Bookmark the permalink. Comments Off.
