Mixi Enables NFC Check-in with Taglet
Groovy NFC functionality for check-in services via the Taglet Android app. now rolled into the Mixi platform! See video below: http://bit.ly/iLZk9X
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Mixi announced that the mixi check and the mixi check-in using NFC became possible on Feb. 9th. It said that it will become possible only for visitors to hold up the mobile phone in point of purchase advertisement etc. with NFC set up in the shop etc. , and to use the mixi check and the mixi check-in. It achieved by corresponding to informational common service for Android “Taglet (tag let)” for NFC of the mixi check and the mixi check-in. “Taglet (tag let)” uses the NFC function installed from Android 2.3 afresh, and can relate my favorite URL, message, Twitter ID, telephone number, and mail address, etc. to the NFC equipment. The correspondence terminal at present becomes only “Google Nexus S(Android2.3)” because it requires 2.3 versions that become Android latest versions.
The render of service is an actual world first according to this company in which NFC that had become possible to use it and the location information were combined for the Android terminal. NFC that is International Standard schedules to be installed with a lot of portable terminals including Android, and the spread in the future is expected. Mixi is assumed not to be confined only in the Web service, to expand the range of correspondence of the mixi check to the place and the thing of various real worlds, and to provide more comfortable communications service.
It serves to “Mixi check” in can share the topic and information with the interest and the concern such as the mixi news and [mikukore] (mixi collection) with [de] and the friend and the acquaintance by clicking the button. “Mixi check-in” is a location-based service that can easily share the place and the shop (spot) that is by using the GPS function of the mobile phone now by the friend. Via: RBB Today