Upgraded E-bak application for VO-KA

Posted on Thursday, 5 May 2011

After a year of monitoring and making a list of new features we are proud to deliver a new version of the E-bak application for VO-KA – JP VODOVOD – KANALIZACIJA d.o.o. that runs the central Waste-water Treatment Plant Ljubljana.

This custom made highly technical industry focused application is now even more integrated into the daily life cycle of monitoring and report making system for cleaning waste water for Slovenia’s capital city Ljubljana.

The application has been expanded to monitor new events, message control board, e-archive and e-dairy for mechanical activities that take place at waste water Treatment Plants. Monitoring all the waste water and mud from tanks and making reports it is crucial to see the system conditions and operation tasks.

IT integration with main plant internal system

Data flow from E-bak application has been carefully integrated into the central IT system to allow access to reports and schedules instantly.

We are extremely proud that everything went well and to have one more happy client.

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Trackable and Brandable QR Codes – QR generator version 3

Posted on Friday, 29 April 2011

QR Codes are getting quite a buzz lately and they are popping up everywhere. Our QR Code generator is getting more and more attention in the web community, among marketers and we are thrilled about the web users response.

We launched version 2 in March and version 2 got a lot of feedback (thank you for your collaboration) and we still have a big TO-DO list for the next version. Today’s update completes the version 3 QR Code generator and we have prepared a QR infographic to go with this post to mark 50k generated QR codes.

Trackable QR Codes

We are expanding options for trackable QR codes to:

  • Text
  • Hyperlink
  • Contact (MECARD, VCARD, BIZCARD)
  • E-mail address
  • Phone number
  • Geo location and maps
  • Social networks (Twitter message, Last Tweet, Foursquare venue)
  • iPhone and Android (iTunes App, iTunes App Review, iPhone YouTube, Android market)

Trackable Branded QR Code

Enrich QR Codes with logo or custom text. See examples here.

Branded QR Code for tracking

Trackable Dynamic QR Code

What is a dynamic QR Code?
It is a very straight forward principle – when you print your QR Code on a poster, biz card or product you can change the QR-link to the final QR-destination page without affecting the already printed QR Code. You simply change your link from Youtube/Vimeo video to your mobile ready site or any social website. 

Another major benefit to consider when using Dynamic QR Codes is that they reduce printing costs. They are reusable and especially useful when printed on products or other media. It would be impossible to print a new one without big costs being involved.

Dynamic QR Code – Free Sign Up

What’s new in QR generator version 3?

  • New trackable QR Codes
  • Dynamic QR Code
  • Embedding logo or images inside QR Code – Branding QR code
  • Colouring QR codes (foreground & background)
  • New content options for creating QR Codes
    1. vCalendar
    2. Foursquare venue
    3. YouTube video for iPhone
    4. iTunes app
    5. iTunes app review
    6. WIFI network for Android
    7. Android market
    8. Google maps
    9. Bing map
    10. Facebook LIKE
    11. Twitter message
    12. Last Tweet from given user
    13. Twitter Follow ME
    14. Browser Bookmarks
  • Export Analytics (QR tracking) in various formats (csv, xls, xml)
  • Support for scanning QR Code with notebook camera
  • QR Code info page
  • QR Code Tweets page with filtering
  • API 2 documentation page + API application with source code on CodePlex

Optimization and updates:

  • fixed Chrome browser issue for inputs
  • light speed statistic graph
  • site speed optimization and few minor bugs fixed
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Create & track QR Codes

Posted on Thursday, 24 March 2011

QR Code generator and trackingA QR Code is an image qr-code-icon with funny black square pixels that you can scan with a mobile phone QR reader to see the hidden content behind the code. QR technology is considered as the most awesome technology it has swept across Japan, but produced little to no success anywhere else for many years. Everything is changing and there are a lot of useful scenarios of how to use a QR Code in everyday life or business. Watch this video.

QR Code generator

It all begun back in summer 2010 when we had started developing an online survey service Good Survey (currently in final testing stage) and down the development road we found that the service would be essential for us to push mobile surveys and on the back of this we found QR Codes so much fun that on September 15, 2010 we launched first version of our free online QR Code generator. Since launching this QR Code generator we got very positive feedback from the web community, people, and businesses. After the launch we added many new features and improvements.

We have listened to users feedback (asking for new features) and we realize that our initial design had reached its limits. We decided that redesigning whole website was essential, we needed a better and more scalable website and at the same time we still wanted to stay close to the old concept “Life below 600px“. Our aim with the new design was to improve online experience, make clear website navigation and stay simple and fast while raising overall quality.

New feature: QR Code tracking

Many extra features were added since the launch in autumn 2010 and finally “you asked that” we implement a tracking feature inside this QR Code service. Today, we’re happy to see that people are creating more and more 2D codes for a variety of purpose. In USA they recently started incorporating QR codes in everyday life services like airline boarding.

Generate QR Code and track your QR campaign

QR Code tracking is a powerful online tool to track QR Codes scans for all QR based marketing campaigns. You can track a number of scans by date, location, device manufacturer and device model after scanning a code. You can always view created QR Codes from your account or edit your data.

Other major new features on redesigned QR Code web site

  • Automatic link shorting with goo.by
  • Replaced VCARD with MECARD as it is more compact
  • New chart for usage statistics
  • QR Code Twitter feed
  • Updated API version with backward compatibility
  • And of course we kept QR codes in vector formats such as SVG, EPS, XAML,…

We very much appreciate your support, comments and feedback so far and we want to give you a sneak preview what is coming next. We are in the final stage of testing WP7 app for QR Code tracking.

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New URL shortener http://goo.by

Posted on Tuesday, 8 March 2011

People are sharing content on social networks and we are very keen to help them do so. While we have been working on digital products, we found that making a URL shortener service would be very helpful and today we are pleased to announce new URL shortener http://goo.by service. Currently goo.by supports shortening multiple links and direct posting to Twitter.

With open API we want to address developers and sites to provide short URLs for their users and we’d love to see you hooking up to API. Take a look at the API documentaton it is easy to use. We built this service with a careful approach and at the backend goo.by URL shortener is powered by MongoDB: a fast, flexible, open source, document-oriented database.

Some of you might want to know about usage of .by domain for this service. It is native a domain of Belarus and as it is hard to find cool domain these days .by domain suits us perfectly.

We’re excited about the launch and we’d love to see your feedback. What you ♥ like/dislike or would love to see in next version. Create short links with http://goo.by and finally help us share this post on social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

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