Out of the boat

I went to the mail box this afternoon and found a key to open the special delivery box. “Hmmm. I guess we’ve got a package. Probably for Matthew’s birthday”, I thought. I opened the special delivery box to find a package from Oona! Whoo Hoo! Finally.

I ran across the Oona on Kickstarter.com in May. You may remember that I was looking for a stand or tripod attachment for my iPhone earlier this year. I watched the video for the Oona and knew that it was exactly what I needed. I pledged $25 and waited for it to reach it’s funding goal, which I knew it would. Well on June 3, 2011 it reached its goal and I began the wait to get mine.

I waited and waited and waited. Then I pretty much forgot about it…kinda. The Oona team were great at keeping me updated on progress via email, but after the first few I kinda stopped even opening them. I just decided to wait. I get so much email. You know what I mean.

Well, as you know, it came today! So I’ll get using it and try to keep you posted.

Got an Oona? How do you like it? What have you been doing with it? I’d love to hear.

Introducing stickybits. A fun and social way to attach digital content to real world objects.

Saw stickybits in the App Store on Friday and have not stopped thinking about it. Like I wrote in the title, I think the opportunities for this are ENDLESS.

The basic premise:

1. Scan a barcode (or QR code)
2. Attach something– a photo, video, audio clip, pdf, zip file, text file etc. to the bar code,
3. Other people scan it – using the free stickybits app (available for iPhone and Android) people can ‘see’ your attached digital content

Scanning ‘codes’ for info isn’t new, we’ve all seen the codes in newspapers that you can scan with your smartphone, but here’s the cool part. You can scan any barcode and ‘tag’ it. That means existing ones… like on a can of coke, or new ones. stickybits allows you to create your own barcodes to use on pretty much whatever you want. Need 1, no problem. Need more, no problem. They even sell products on their site with codes on them that can be personalized–things like coffee cups and t-shirts.

Try it out now. Here’s my barcode from stickybits:

Scan my barcode from stickybits using their free app and check out what I’ve attached, then attach something yourself. (more…)

Just added the WPTouch plugin to the site. Love it so far and I haven’t even done any customization yet.

Visit my blog on your mobile device (if you aren’t already) to see it in action.

Great job BraveNewCode!