Green Technology Blog

December 5, 2008

In-Store Price-Look into Options

Every year, a newfangled company tries to progress to a cell phone application that can scan barcodes , transport that information across the web, so pass relative price information. Overall, it’s a outstanding concept, but I cerebrate companies are overthinking this one.

Companies are creating a ton of hurdles for themselves as they try to work this problem. By couching the problem as a bar code reading, learning, and transmission problem, they want to puzzle out photo quality issues caused by humans who are very discrepant when it strikes occupying pictures.

They besides have to get the best the software installation hurdle, which thinks of they have to publish software that runs on multiple platforms, convert people to instal it, hold up the various versions over time, catch people to promote it, etc. That’s a lot of work.

With that in mind, I intend a newfangled service sent for BooksPrice is going about figuring out this interesting issue in a much smarter way. Forget about fluid software. Alternatively, use SMS to transmit.

People are pretty serious at texting compared to aiming pictures. And it’s not that tough to find oneself an text an ISBN number.

In BooksPrice.com’s model, they’re applying Twitter to cause this all chance. You travel along BooksPrice on Twitter. They travel along you backward. And then, the next time you desire to bet up a book’s price, simply mail a directly tweet to booksprice like this:

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