Out of the boat

I saw this #ff tweet today from @therealkazia (check out her blog)…

…I checked it out and was like, Whoa! Really.

How does Triberr work?

• You get invited to join a tribe.
• You join by signing up with an RSS feed for your blog, and later connect your twitter account. (don’t worry you can add additional feeds and twitter accounts)
• Once you’re in, three tribes are automatically created for you. Don’t worry the auto-generated tribe names & categorization can be changed… although they are unique and catchy. I do wish there was a nonprofit category.
• You invite others to join your tribe. Tribes can only be a maximum of 7 (6+you).
• Members of tribes automatically retweet blog posts from other members of the tribe.

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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…)