'Buzcard' the smart business card for a new generation

Smart business cards from Buzcard

Buzcard is a professional business card with contact QR code production platform that offer direct and smart QR codes for use on business cards. You can select a business card from a pre-designed library and modify the contents to suit, or upload you own design as a PDF file and the system will generate the contact information QR code and place it on the back of the card for you.

1. Choose your design from a library of business cards, or upload your own
2. Choose between a direct contact QR code or a managed smart QR code.

A simple, easy and effective platform for everyone to have access to get the benefits of smart business cards at very competitive prices.

For more information on the Buzcard platform and what it can do for you and your organization, contact Publimation or QR4.

 Buzcards, smart business cards for a new generation.

QR codes on clothing a marketing goldmine.

A colleague company, 0D0A not only provides QR code clothing for social media at a very social price, it goes a whole lot further and could fill the gap for marketers and promotional companies for short term and immediate high speed variable promotional needs.

Facebook QR Code	Twitter QR Code	LinkedIn QR Code	Managed QR Code

Welcome to 'Managed and measurable' QR code clothing
Say what! 'Managed and managable clothing'? You have to be kidding!
Imagine you can use one QR code on many clothing items and be able to adapt what the QR code does to promote different products and services at different events. With managed QR codes this is easy to do and it comes with a statistics engine to show you how effective the QR code scan rates are.

Corporate QR Code	Company Logo	Designer QR Code	Colour QR Code

These types of QR codes on clothing can be used by companies, schools, sports clubs and more to promote products, events or services as and when needed. A dynamic information system on clothing that changes with you as and when you need it too.

0D0A also makes managed designer QR codes for companies that incorporate the house style colours, logos and graphics.

Cross-media contact exchange for a new generation

Publimation, a French company specializing in data driven publishing and communications platforms has combined the old world of business cards with the new generation of digital contact information services in a service called Forever Card.

Best of both worlds

Combining traditional business cards with modern digital systems does have its advantages. The platform is called 'Forever Card' meaning that your contact information is always up-to-date and correct. The system uses the popular 'Flashcode' 2D datamatrix code as well as QR codes.

How does it work

Forever Card allows you to put a QR or Flashcode on your business card. Behind this code is a secure personal portal that provides two functions.

The first allows you to access your contact information and make changes as these happen, like a new social media link, a change of address or telephone number.

The second is a service built for mobile devices to display the contact information you have made available. But it also does a lot more.

• Direct calling by simply clicking on the telephone number.
• Direct profile linking to all your favorite social media services with a single click.
• Get notification if any information is changed so people that scanned your code can update their contact lists.
• Provide links to your web sites and web services

So even if the business card the QR code is printed on is not longer current, by scanning the QR code they are immediately informed of your current information and can instantly get in contact you.

This is another great example of how QR codes can be used to offer real value added services.

The company behind the Forever Card is Publimation and they can be contacted at:

Publimation France
20, Rue Michodière
75002 Paris
France
Tel. : +33 (0)1 56 56 76 50
Fax. : +33 (0)1 58 45 15 80

Create QR codes for special events, agenda's and calendars

Ideal for use with special events like birthdays, anniversaries, appointments and event marketing. These QR codes can store a date span that when scanned by a mobile or smart-phone can be placed directly into the digital agenda.

It's really that simple and the image above will link you to the QR code event generator so you too can make QR codes for your own special events.

Where was that QR code scanned?

Knowing when and where a QR code is scanned can be valuable information for marketing professionals. Because QR codes are mostly scanned by mobile and smartphones of which most have GPS (Global Positioning System) on board, It could be interacting to request this geographic location information from the device that scanned the code to determine the location and time the scan was made.

Putting Geolocation of a QR code scan to the test

Below are two QR codes, one for the iPhone/iPad(click on it) and the other for Android mobile devices. Scan the code to see how it determines your geographic position.

The result on an Samsung Android system	The results from an iPhone

 How geo-location works

The iPhone geolocator uses new HTML5 features to ask for the co-ordinates. Unfortunately Android (froyo) in combination with the Samsung Galaxy S's standard browser does not seem to support this, so here we went back to Google Gears which did the trick, but the accuracy leaves a lot to be desired.

The technology used in the two test cases above is openly and freely available on the Internet, so if you have QR codes in newspapers, magazines or on materials that move around a lot and you want insight into where these QR codes are being scanned. These systems may be helpful in providing you with the geographic information you need. If you want to integrate geolocation with your QR codes and need assistance, please contact us.