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Feb 15 / Vlad Trifa

Tikitag now becomes touchatag

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Our friends from tikitag, just rolled out their new website (and name, and applications, …). The had copyright issues with the older name so now they are touchatag. I have to admit tikitag was a way better name than touchatag (no offense), as this new name actually makes me think of feldpausch in terms of sex appeal (maybe it’s just me). I have been playing with their readers for quite some time, and find them quite cute and easy to use. Maybe I’d like to see more open code to use their reader from different languages (I just have some raw C code, java would be good to read directly from it, anyone got something? Don’t feel like redoing that from scratch).

The coolest things is that now it also supports 2D barcodes. I’m not so sure where the guys are heading in terms of business model, because the ideas I have in my head to use tikit.. erhmmm… toughatag do not really use their services (if I take a QR code snapshot with a random mobile phone and software and go to the encoded page, where would I need touchatag???). In any way, I’m looking forward to check more their stuff (I like the idea of redirecting tags to urls.. . for example to devices… :D more to follow on that soon).

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  • http://reverendted.wordpress.com Ted Haeger

    Hey, Vlad:
    I just joined the touchatag team as the new developer relations manager. As part of my research toward building the developer network. I’m curious to better understand the kind of projects you’re thinking about. You should have my address from this comment, so please drop me an email.
    Thanks,
    Ted

  • http://www.qrme.co.uk Ian foster
  • spede

    touchatag sounds like douchetag, which is not good.

  • http://www.smoothplanet.com Jérôme

    Any luck for a Java version of their reader ? Would be interested as well…

  • http://www.vladounet.com Vlad Trifa

    I don’t think so :(

    yeah, some source code to that would be awesome :) but I didn’t see much support from them for really enabling developers to play around as they’d like, which is not very good for their image in my opinion.

  • http://andypiper.co.uk Andy Piper

    In theory it should be possible to address the reader from Java using javax.smartcardio in Java 6, but on OS X at least that doesn’t currently work.