Very interesting find lately has been PingTags, a recently released service by Squarepush.

QR Tags are scan codes the size of a postage stamp and are all the rage in Japan and other parts of the world. Most North Americans simply scratch their heads and say, “Didn’t I see one of those on a Scoble t-shirt or something?”

PingTags attempts to remedy this by making them useful with familiar tools such as LinkedIn and your mobile device such as the iPhone. Simply log in with your LinkeIn credentials, grab the blocky scan, place it on your website, then wait for people to scan it.

For the scanning visitor, the link appearing from the code will lead to a nicely formatted front door to scan owner’s LinkedIn profile. For the scan owner, the visit can be logged with the usual analytics information such as IP address, type of device visiting (iPhone, Blackberry, desktop, etc.) which links were visited and an EXACT location of the visitor, if they chose to reveal it during their visit.

I don’t think there’s anything evil behind it so the technology pretty well does what it should without compromising anyone.

Will this lead to more traffic from QR happy Japan? Sure… if you’re site can be read in Japanese, of course.

Enjoy.

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