links for 2009-01-16

"Tag lets you create your own bar code and then allows other users to "scan" it with their iPhones, accessing whatever information you may want them to see: your contact information, advertisements, and more. I'm thinking of putting one on my business cards."

Doing a search of blogs on Taglets.org and reading this description I wondered if this is another example of what you could use it for? "Billing itself as an ‘online suggestion box that sorts itself’"

Stowe picks up on a nice little icon for retweets. Be better if Twitter would start supporting RT's.

This is a shame. Jaiku never seemed to have a chance once it was absorbed into Google and yet it was far more than Twitter in the beginning. Still the difference was it never got off the mobile platform they started on and where it should be. Effectively ahead of their time. So will Google now buy Twitter? Probably! What's this mean for Grand Central?