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Microsoft Tag: Microsoft’s 2D barcode technology
D' Technology Weblog — ... on the tag itself. A nice side-effect of this is also the ability for publishers to gather reporting data on how many times it was seen. To read these tags, Microsoft is making available a downloadable application to a handful of mobile platforms including Windows Mobile, J2ME, iPhone, Blackberry, and Symbian S60 phones. A camera and internet connection is obviously required. To get the application, point your phone’s browser to http://gettag.mobi. The “tag maker” service is also available so anyone can create these ...

Microsoft’s Second iPhone App Breaks Cover
Geek In Disguise — ... gives a good explanation of the differences but a key difference is the tag doesn’t store the data itself – it’s a redirector. What this means is you can provide a lot more info to people - especially in a world of more capable mobile devices where they can connect out to a website. Plus, you get reports on who is connecting and using the link you provide. ...

Microsoft Tag: The CueCat Returns on Your Mobile Phone
ReadWriteWeb — ... You create your own barcodes on the Tag web site and download them in various formats (PDF, WMV, and XPS). The site also lets you track how often your codes have been scanned, which sets it apart from most other sites that create the somewhat similar, but less information dense QR Codes. ...

Microsoft Tag API Released
D' Technology Weblog — ... mobile devices. By using the Microsoft Tag Web Services API, you can programmatically access many of the same operations used on the Microsoft Tag Web site. Using Visual Studio and the .NET Framework, you can write programs to create, modify, and otherwise manage Tags for your business — including bulk Tag creation and updates — without having to use the Microsoft Tag Web site interface. In order to start taking advantage of the new Tag API, developers will need to first sign up, and then ...