Wear Your Web Quikqr.com launches: QR codes in the UK

June 4, 2009 - PRLog -- Imagine wearing your website or putting your tweets on a coffee cup. You can using QR codes.

QR codes are revolutionising the way we interact with online media. By taking a photo of a QR code on your mobile you are automatically transported to a website encoded in the QR code. Quikqr.com is a service that lets anyone generate the codes for free and to create cool products at the same time.

QR codes can take you to websites, set up emails, maps, business cards and text messages all on your phone.

Set to change the way we engage with the internet, QR codes create a physical bridge between the digital and physical worlds. Effortless to use, QR codes are part of a new wave of innovation pushing the web into exciting new areas.

Quikqr.com is simple to use- you don't have to log in, you don't have to give details, it's free and breaks new ground by letting you create cool products with your unique QR code.

Quikqr.com is produced by Quik Communications, the UK's first dedicated mobile barcode company. “We want to help people get their message out there by making mobile barcodes accesible to everyone” says Founder and CEO, Ben Murison.
“QR codes are set to be one of the tech and marketing stories of the next five years. Quikqr.com will be at forefront,” says Co-founder, Michael Bhaskar.

Quik Communications and Quikqr.com are also pioneering the creative use of barcodes using games, chat applications, surveys, art works and specially commissioned designs.

Notes for Editors

QR codes were originally created by the Denso Wave corporation in 1990s Japan. Since then QR codes have taken Japan by storm, featured on everything from restaurant menus and billboards, to business cards and baseball caps. QR codes have become the global standard in the emerging mobile barcode space with Quikqr pioneering their use in the UK.
The mobile web is the fastest growing area of the internet with a potential user base measured in billions.
Quik Communications Ltd.  is a London based agency that produces web apps and consults on simple physical to digital interfaces and their applications. Founded by Ben Murison and Michael Bhaskar it aims to pioneer the use of QR codes in the UK.

Interviews, photos and demos of Quikqr.com and QR codes in general are all available on request.

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We are a start up that focuses on making new and easy ways of connecting the real world to the internet. Our website, www.quikqr.com lets people produce QR codes. The website is free, has no log in and lets you build cool things with your QR codes.