Inspiration Tuesdays: Talking Resume

A resume is such a traditional document that it’s great seeing it refreshed with great photography and integration with the Web.

A “QR Code” is one way of bridging paper and pixels. It’s a square bar code that most smartphones can scan which instantly launches any URL in your phone’s mobile browser. It might lead you to a website, a photo, a video or anything else on the Internet.

For example, the QR code on the right brings you to this blog. If you have an iPhone you can get a free barcode scanning app such as ScanLife. On Android phones, QR scanning is built in.

The point is that I love seeing the physical world, digital photography and the Web intersect. For this Inspiration Tuesdays, here’s one great example of that convergence:

If that does inspire you and you want to generate your own QR codes, try the Goo.gl URL shortening service. Each URL you shorten (e.g. http://goo.gl/info/UEmg) gets a QR code like the one I included above.

To see how I got the QR code above, just visit the shortened URLs “info” page at http://goo.gl/info/UEmgo (i.e. just add “/info/” in the middle any goo.gl URL or click “Details” after you create it).

Have you seen these codes used in other places? If not, you will now!