Microsoft Tag
Microsoft Tag is a free fun and mysterious way to find information on everyday items by taking snapshots of special "tags" with your camera phone.
Today, I came across a new concept or technology (I don't know what to call it technology or concept? ) from Microsoft -TAG. It is really cool. Read on to learn more about Microsoft Tag
Microsoft Tag is a new kind of bar code that connects almost anything in the real world to information, entertainment, and interactive experiences on your mobile phone. Tags are free to create and use. You can add them to your ads, posters, product packages, display it on your website, billboards, clothing etc the list is endless. When you scan a Tag using the free Tag Reader application on your mobile phone, it will automatically open a webpage, add a contact to your address book, display a message, or dial a number – there are no long URLs to type or SMS messages to send, isn't it cool?
Moreover, anyone can create Tags and that too for FREE. In addition, Tags are fully customizable, you can create them in colors or just black and white. The important and best part of it is that, you can keep a track of who all checked your tags and from which location so that you can know how well or bad is your offline campaign going on. Here are a few reasons to use Microsoft Tag (as per Microsoft):
Summary: Microsoft Tag is a free fun and mysterious way to find information on everyday items by taking snapshots of special "tags" with your camera phone. The mysterious thing about Tag is that you know you're going to receive information on a tagged item but you don't know in what form it will come.
I have created some Tags for myself, go ahead download the Tag Reader application from Microsoft and check what the Tag has in store for you :-)