Posted by
Hemos
on from the i-wish-this-was-more-like-this dept.
uqbar writes: "The corporate culture jammers at ®TMark have released Cuehack which takes the CueCat and finds out dirt on the company whose barcode you scanned." It's a Windows app, so I'm not able to run it. Neither do I have a CueCat -- but apps like this make me smile.
Re:Why? Is there a point?
by
Pig+Hogger
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· Score: 4
Personally I don't care if Campbell's Soup is being sued
or has lousy profits, I just want to eat my can of soup and go
on with life.
That's the problem with most of the public nowadays. They are
consumers rather than citizens. They don't care whether their
gizmos/food come from, they just want to enjoy it, without regards
to their social/health/ecological impacts, at home or abroad.
Then it does a Google web search for somecompany and a randomly chosen topic of potential interest
But
http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html shows:
The Google Search Services are made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use the Google Search Services to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales. You may not take the results from a Google search and reformat and display them, or mirror the Google home page or results pages on your Web site, or send automated queries to Google's system without express permission from Google. If you want to make commercial use of the Google Search Services you must enter into an agreement with Google to do so. Please contact bizdev@google.com for more information.
Unfortunatly (?) I don't have a "Clue"Cat so I'm not sure of the output from CueHack. Can anyone comment on this?
The only reason I bring it up is that I've seen other sites shut down because of fun uses of Google search results due to the TOS.
-- In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Digital Convergence running wild
by
e_lehman
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· Score: 4
Every now and then I like to get the latest news about how CueCat is taking over the world. For example, recent Digital Convergence press releases reveal the following juicy tidbits:
Adoption of CueCat technology in the catalog for ClassOne Orthodontics of Lubbock, Texas, maker of the world's widest range of ceramic dental brackets.
"New Jersey Bride will be the first bridal publication to include:CRQ print-to-Web technology" That's what I call a major business coup right there.
"With its January/February edition, Connecticut Traveler magazine became the first consumer travel magazine to include:CRQ print-to-Web technology" I'm sure we'll all be anxiously checking our mailboxes for the next issue of Connecticut Traveler!
(Follow the link above if you think I made these up.)
Good to see that $100 million in startup funding for Digital Convergence is paying off in spades!
Re:Why? Is there a point?
by
startled
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· Score: 4
There is a point to all of this. The "culture jamming" movement is about getting the other side of the story to people. That is, rather than a person ("consumer") just getting the "Campbell's soup is good for you, American, homemade, grandma" message, you also get the "Campbell's beats monkeys to force them to craft Rat Organ Soup", or somesuch.
Yes, you can get a lot of this information other places, like searching the net, or hitting Consumer Reports. Some of it's actually fairly difficult to get (and this CueHack won't get it). The idea is most people only see the big billboards and TV ads, because that's what corporations pay for (of course). We, as non-corporations, don't have multimillion dollar marketing budgets-- how do we make our voices heard? This is one more creative way of getting the other side of the story heard.
Does it work? Sometimes. You're reading this, anyway. Maybe a few people will see the article on/., run the program, and find out a few new things about the products they own. Maybe a few people will go check out Consumer Reports. Is it as effective as $50million? Unfortunately not.
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That's the problem with most of the public nowadays. They are consumers rather than citizens. They don't care whether their gizmos/food come from, they just want to enjoy it, without regards to their social/health/ecological impacts, at home or abroad.
--
Then it does a Google web search for somecompany and a randomly chosen topic of potential interest
But
http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html shows:
The Google Search Services are made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use the Google Search Services to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales. You may not take the results from a Google search and reformat and display them, or mirror the Google home page or results pages on your Web site, or send automated queries to Google's system without express permission from Google. If you want to make commercial use of the Google Search Services you must enter into an agreement with Google to do so. Please contact bizdev@google.com for more information.
Unfortunatly (?) I don't have a "Clue"Cat so I'm not sure of the output from CueHack. Can anyone comment on this?
The only reason I bring it up is that I've seen other sites shut down because of fun uses of Google search results due to the TOS.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
There are some open source Java drivers for CueCat at:
http://www.popbeads.org/Software/CCScan
If you watch TV news, you know less about the world than if you just drank gin straight from the bottle.
I'm afraid to scan my food packaging's bar codes.
Every now and then I like to get the latest news about how CueCat is taking over the world. For example, recent Digital Convergence press releases reveal the following juicy tidbits:
(Follow the link above if you think I made these up.)
Good to see that $100 million in startup funding for Digital Convergence is paying off in spades!
There is a point to all of this. The "culture jamming" movement is about getting the other side of the story to people. That is, rather than a person ("consumer") just getting the "Campbell's soup is good for you, American, homemade, grandma" message, you also get the "Campbell's beats monkeys to force them to craft Rat Organ Soup", or somesuch.
/., run the program, and find out a few new things about the products they own. Maybe a few people will go check out Consumer Reports. Is it as effective as $50million? Unfortunately not.
Yes, you can get a lot of this information other places, like searching the net, or hitting Consumer Reports. Some of it's actually fairly difficult to get (and this CueHack won't get it). The idea is most people only see the big billboards and TV ads, because that's what corporations pay for (of course). We, as non-corporations, don't have multimillion dollar marketing budgets-- how do we make our voices heard? This is one more creative way of getting the other side of the story heard.
Does it work? Sometimes. You're reading this, anyway. Maybe a few people will see the article on