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A previous poster noted that Chirp for Android and Iphone does exactly that - passes a link via little audio chirps. Anybody running Chirp can pickup the link and follow it, like an audio QR code.

Bezos's idea sounds like sort of a combination of Bump and Chirp - using audio chirps to set up an internet connection (via the cloud) between the phones instead of using sensor data from the bumps to set up that same connection.

Neat, but pretty damn obvious (you've already got two companies doing almost the same thing) so I don't see how it's patent worthy.

I shudder at the thought of trying to explain to them how to beam contact information from their iPhone to some other random piece of technology.

Bump it?

It's called bump.

http://bu.mp/

Bump it?

http://bu.mp/

I hate Business cards, always lose the damn little things.

http://bu.mp/

There is your answer

Oh, yeah, "bump"! I love those animated logos of theirs - though I can't say they're exactly appropriate for business use...

http://bu.mp/

There is your answer

http://bu.mp/

We're getting there
The future is now
android (iphone)

Also, I dig cards and what not with QR codes.

http://bu.mp/videos

Why would you need to pass the devices around? Just pass the documents wirelessly

For example, smart phones have bump*, just bump two of them and it gets copied from one to the other, instantaneously!

*Note: I haven't actually used the program, just showing it as an example of a possible, easy to use interface.