6 Oct
2004
6 Oct
'04
10:45 p.m.
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, John Foust wrote:
I saw something in the NY Times today about software
in cellular phones
that recognizes a new circular barcode that encodes a URL
(and given the example, it looked like it used a "tiny URL"
scheme to map a low-density number to a longer URL kept
in a server's database.)
Wow, history repeats itself so soon. It's good that the CueCat engineers
managed to find work after the dot.bomb. Because, you know, that was such
a good idea that it screams for reincarnation! :)
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