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In a momentous day for Tagstand, my FACE IS OFF THE HOMEPAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Barnes and Noble Nook getting NFC.
Read with NFC!
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Barnes & Noble plans to add near-field communication (NFC) technology to its Nook e-reader platform, chief executive William Lynch said Tuesday.
Lynch also revealed that the Barnes & Noble Simple Touch with Glowlight, B&N’s latest Nook, has sold out. The Nook Color, by contrast, has been Barnes & Noble’s best-selling device, he said.
According to a question-and-answer session inFortune, B&N plans to ask publishers to embed NFC chips inside hardback books, turning the Nook into a sort of “second screen” for the bookstore.
“We’re going to start embedding NFC chips into our Nooks,” Lynch said. “We can work with the publishers so they would ship a copy of each hardcover with an NFC chip embedded with all the editorial reviews they can get on BN.com. And if you had your Nook, you can walk up to any of our pictures, any our aisles, any of our bestseller lists, and just touch the book, and get information on that physical book on your Nook and have some frictionless purchase experience. That’s coming, and we could lead in that area.”
When asked if B&B could add that concept this year, Lynch replied, “Maybe”
France's Toulouse-Blagnac airport to conduct NFC field trials for BlackBerry smartphones - Engadget
Neat!
Intel Pushes NFC
“We don’t see it (NFC) as a passing fancy,” said Vincent. “We see it as a technology that is here to stay.”
http://nfctimes.com/news/intel-nfc-not-passing-fancy-chip-giant-prepares-push-nfc-phones-and-other-devices
Identive Introduces Innovative Payment Tag for Mobile Phones - MarketWatch
Lots of NFC news with the upcoming summit in Burlingame.
Tom Gregory, Head of Digital Payments at Barclaycard, chats about contactless
Solid interview on how contactless is catching on around the world.
http://www.whatismoney.co.uk/your-money/2012/03/16/contactless-technology-in-2012
This is amazing! Finally! Big news. Yay.
Tagstand Is NFC-Enabling A Giant Cocktail Party, Will Let Guests Facebook & Tweet From Their Wristbands | TechCrunch
This is what we have been busy this past little while! A big shout out to our partners ClearHart Digital.
Fun times ahead.
The Discovery Economy: Why Sharing Your Identity Is A Good Thing | Fast Company
And this weekend Tagstand, a Y Combinator-funded forerunner in the real-world NFC “tagging” game, is supplying its tech to 3,500 attendees of a black tie bash in New York where partygoers will be able to use their NFC wristbands to tap on a portal to send a tweet, post photos to Facebook, and even register their NFC “check-in” for the cocktails they’re drinking, in order to get the ingredients sent to them afterwards.
This all adds up to far more than just a way to digitally say, “Yes, I’ve got a valid Coachella ticket” or “Please send a tweet for me saying I’m listening to Pulp play ‘Common People,’” or even “Yes,this is my credit card number.” It’s a key to discover more information.
Tagstand’s trick of sharing cocktail ingredients is a great example. By saying “Yes, I’d like to know,” you’re sharing your personal information with the venue: You’re associating your digital profile with a particular choice, which will help the organization understand what its patrons prefer—that’s one reason why events, stores, banks, and others want to get access to your data in the future. The trade-off being offered is additional information that you didn’t know before—discovery.
