Miami, FL (1888PressRelease)
September 27, 2007 - The T-shirts feature a datamatrix barcode, known as a “tag”. Using a mobile phone camera, a person may take a picture of the tag, and software on the mobile phone can read it. The mobile phone then launches a browser and visits the website of the wearer.
The person wearing the T-shirt can choose any website, social networking page, photo, video or music to link the tag to. This includes the ever-popular Facebook and Myspace websites, as well as Augme’s own profiles which are designed with mobile-viewing in mind.
In Japan, reading barcodes using a mobile phone camera has been common for a long time. There, people regularly access websites and exchange contact information using printed barcodes that can be found in classified ads, on billboards and business cards.
Increasingly, however, barcode reading software is being pre-installed on mobile handsets that are available in the Europe and North America. Some examples of handsets that come with barcode reading software already installed include the Nokia N93, N93i, N95 and E90. For phones that do not come with built-in barcode reading software, there is free downloadable software available. Augme.com features an application that allows users to quickly find free tag-reading software that is available for a particular phone.
Augme.com allows users to create and manage phone-readable tags. Visitors to the site may create tags for any purpose and use them as they see fit. Augme, Inc is dedicated to linking information on the internet to physical objects. The Augme website is at http://www.augme.com for computers and http://m.augme.com for mobile phones. T-shirts are available from http://stores.augme.com and http://www.extendedidentity.com.
For further information, please contact Matt Lally at matt.lally ( @ ) augme dot com.
