Facebook is up with a bit of experimentation as the social network rolls out QR codes as part of its location features. The idea is to use these codes in line with its mobile app or more importantly as means of checking in on stores and affiliate businesses. QR is for quick responses and lately had been in test across a few select profiles but I guess it will be coming for everyone along with the location feature it plans to launch next month at the Facebook f8 conference.
The QR is primarily a bar code we often see on devices these days and can be read by a camera in your mobile phone. If I am not wrong here it appears more of FourSquare and Gowalla coming together under Facebook. The winning aspect for Facebook however is that the social network has more than 400 Million users and that is something the mentioned two networks can never reach.
The ease? Well as already mentioned once integrated / applied the same would be used for checking in to participating stores / businesses. I guess many would resort to using them and really appreciate their application. I mean these QR codes carry a lot more data than the traditional bar codes and the same can applied to almost any media, be it photos, videos, etc. Lets see how long is it before we actually see these available for all.
