{"id":9629,"date":"2011-03-30T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2011-03-30T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T16:29:30","slug":"google-officially-ends-support-for-qr-code-in-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/google-officially-ends-support-for-qr-code-in-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Officially Ends Support For QR Code in Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is obviously <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/googles-joins-forces-with-mastercard-on-nfc-to-test-the-future-of-digital-marketing-analytics-70215\">moving strongly<\/a> towards NFC (near field communications) as their technology of choice for closing the loop of the &#8220;last mile&#8221; in the local link between consumers and Google. They have built the NFC chip into their new Nexus and they are testing NFC in both a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703576204576226722412152678.html\">payment<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-15\/google-is-said-to-ready-payment-test-in-new-york-san-francisco.html\">POS<\/a> environments. They <a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/trailblazing-in-portland.html\">used<\/a> NFC chips in Places signage in their Portland Hotpot promotion (although they were not very effective).<\/p>\n<p>But their aggressive support for NFC seems to be the death knell for their support of QR codes. 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