Using Microsoft Tag API

Microsoft tag is a 2D barcode which is developed by Microsoft. The idea behind Microsoft Tag is reading tags from your mobile phone and accessing the information on internet. For doing this you only need a phone with a camera and to download the tag software which can be found at http://gettag.mobi/ . Microsoft Tag can read from the environments which other barcode readers cannot read such as monitors, televisions. It will be not suprising to see tags on business cards, ads or in supermarkets in a close time period.
Using the code

Since Microsoft Tag uses also colors to encode data so it can store more informations from typical 2d barcodes. These information can be a web site address, a contact card, a text or a phone number. When you scan a tag your phone's default browser will open a website, add a contact to your contacts, shows text message or dials a number according to the tag type you scanned. Also all these information can be secured by using a password and can be accessed in a valid time period that can be determined by the publisher of tag.

For using Microsoft tag you should visit and register to http://tag.microsoft.com. Since it has a user friendly interface I'll mostly mention about using api.

For using api first of all you should enter http://tag.microsoft.com/ws/accessrequest.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0 and fill the form below.

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