{"id":504,"date":"2011-02-10T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/cuecat-20-usa-today-launching-microsoft-tags-barcodes-in-newspaper-you-scan-with-your-smart-phone-to-access-online-content\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:45:53","slug":"cuecat-20-usa-today-launching-microsoft-tags-barcodes-in-newspaper-you-scan-with-your-smart-phone-to-access-online-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/cuecat-20-usa-today-launching-microsoft-tags-barcodes-in-newspaper-you-scan-with-your-smart-phone-to-access-online-content\/","title":{"rendered":"CueCat 2.0: USA Today launching &quot;Microsoft Tags&quot; barcodes in newspaper you scan with your smart phone to access online content | Technology Blog | dallasnews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Almost exactly a decade ago, several magazines and newspapers, including <em>The Dallas Morning News<\/em>, rolled out similar scannable barcodes in their print products. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CueCat\">The CueCat scanner<\/a> was a separate device that you plugged into your PC. Scanning the code attached to an article would take you to the company&#8217;s website, for example, or a video related to the story or somesuch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2011\/02\/cuecat-20-usa-today-launching.html\">CueCat 2.0: USA Today launching &quot;Microsoft Tags&quot; barcodes in newspaper you scan with your smart phone to access online content | Technology Blog | dallasnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go look at the article and the picture.&#160; I kept on for years, cord chopped off and marked with as sharpie \u2013 it was my RESTROOM pass.<\/p>\n<p>Free from Radio Shack, as many as you wanted.&#160; Who was behind that?&#160; He was a Dallas guy\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Almost exactly a decade ago, several magazines and newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News, rolled out similar scannable barcodes in their print products. The CueCat scanner was a separate device that you plugged into your PC. Scanning the code attached to an article would take you to the company&#8217;s website, for example, or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}