QR codes using Google chart API

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Welcome to the new generation of print methods of reading urls (kinda like barcodes for prices). These can be automatically read by devices (phones with cameras among others) to automatically figure out urls to open ( Think print ads, tattoos :) ).

Read more here: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/#qrcodes
here: http://www.google.com/adwords/printads/ads/barcode/
and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

For those of you who haven’t used Google Charts API, it rocks! No two ways about it.

Comments 2

  1. dean collins wrote:

    Hi,

    in case you hadn’t come across it yet I posted a guide to some of the functions you can call on the google qr api

    http://www.cognation.net/QR/Google_api.html

    unfortunately there is a real lack of content in the google provided documentation.

    Cheers,
    Dean

    Posted 11 Jul 2008 at 6:46 pm
  2. Omar Abid wrote:

    here’s an automatic one http://omarabid.com/barcode/online_qrcode.php

    Posted 02 Sep 2008 at 12:52 pm

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