inignoct wrote:
] so it's a cuecat for your phone. or, well, the conceptual
] basis of the cuecat, made to work via camera phones.

Yes, but no. Its a cellphone. Its mobile. This is not some guy sitting next to his computer with a gadget in one hand and a magazine in the other trying to scan in an ugly bar code because he is too dense to type in a url. This is people walking around IRL accessing web pages associated with physical objects, and physical places. Not just advertisements. Anyone can create anything that is tied to the web this way. You can make stickers for your band and put them up all over town and people who figure out that you've watermarked them can access your band's website this way.

This is a way to interconnect the real world with the network. I think the possiblities are absolutely fantastic. When this takes off there will groups of people running around the city taking pictures of things just to see if there might be a watermark. People will run urban scavenger hunts by leaving marked stickers all over the place that only people with this software will understand.

I think memestreams users ought to sticker up the city. When you access the stickers you get taken to a memestreams thread about the physical location where you found the sticker, in the same way that the discussion bookmarklet ties you back to memestreams threads from web pages all over the net.

This is almost as cool as ubiquitous GPS, and its a hell of a lot cheaper and a hell of a lot smaller.

RE: Watermarks connect IRL objects to the web...