MSKYNET BLOG

With the recent launch of SPARQ Coder for Salesforce.com applications, we have been receiving a lot of requests to enable BlackBerry support for QR Codes with address book entries. To our disappointment, it appears that BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 and all the QR Code scanners available for that platform do not support any Address Book Contacts such as the MeCARD format. To work around this problem we have come up with a fairly novel solution and we are happy to announce that our QR Code Generator API (QRGen) now supports vCards that work with BlackBerry.  Using a combination of our database compression and dynamic vCard generator we not only fully support vCards for BlackBerry but we also simplify the QR Code data payload needed which is much less compared to a traditional MeCARD.  

BlackBerry VCard Sample

Links mentioned above
QR Code Generator API (QRGen)
SPARQ Coder – Salesforce AppExchange

A leading provider of CRM solutions SCOUT has implemented a Salesforce.com offering (SPARQ Coder) that integrates our QR Code Generator API (QRGen) with Salesforce CRM applications. This free addition on the AppExchange allows Salesforce contacts, sales leads, and other personal contact information to be easily transferred from the computer screen to a mobile phone via a MeCARD QR Code.

MeCARD’s can be embedded dynamically to any existing webpage via a DHTML <IMG> tag that calls the QRGen API.  The rendering of the actual QR Code is in real-time and you gain the benefit of a dynamic barcode that is generated using the latest QR Code standard.  This simplifies the integration of any existing webpage to fully support dynamic QR Codes. QRGen is built with scalability in mind and is designed for integration with high volume sites that have lots of dynamically generated pages.

*UPDATE (1/19/2010) – We’re happy to update that we just found out this app was promoted as AppExchange App of the Week: on salesforce.com.

Links mentioned above
Scout Inc.
Salesforce.com
QR Code Generator API (QRGen)
SPARQ Coder – Salesforce AppExchange
AppExchange (App of the Week)