Google Launches Goo.gl Site With QR Surprise
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Surprise!
Link shorteners are helpful to keep a link short and sweet, but they're nothing new. Even though there are plenty of link shortening options out there, Google is pressing onwards with the next step in its own service.
Previously available only through Google's software, now the Goo.gl shortening service is available through the web browser. Simply hit http://goo.gl/ and get your links done.
There's even a secret to the Google URL shortener – it can make QR codes for you simply by adding .qr at the end of the link.
For example, turning http://goo.gl/kKf0 into http://goo.gl/kKf0.qr makes this:

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Links - http://goo.gl/IBEO
Create QR code. Send as postcards. I Win.
Links - http://goo.gl/IBEO
Create QR code. Send as postcards. I Win.
OK maybe not so useless after all.
I am speechless! Indeed you win!
we'll see QR codes everywhere in the future to load up menus in restaurants, animal's info in the zoo's etc. Too bad I have not found a way to add a business plan to that wave.
to bad i already have, and i will start the patent process tomorrow, or copyright or something, something so that every time someone uses a qr code for that purpose I get a penny. ill probably be set for life
DAMN YOU!!! I can usually avoid Rick Rolls, got me with that one
Google invents telepathy (as powered by android) iPhone no longer required....
If I need to change where my shortened URL points to, I can't do that with Google's solution. Now I have get a new QR code as well. I'm left with a stack of printed business cards, postcards, flyers, or whatever that I need to pay $$ to get reprinted.
Microsoft Tags have better functionality (for now).