tagging real world objects

One evening at the library.....

I was returning a book.. someone else had reserved it..

It would be interesting to talk to the next borrower. Not many people are into alternative history.

How do we initiate a conversation with future readers of this book?

A ryokan in kyoto, japan

omoide noto - memory notebook

We find this notebook on the table. what is this book. Let’s open it.

We find stories penned by guest’s who had stayed in this room in the past..

The omoide noto gives us an idea. Can we build an online narrative or blog for a physical object or a

place?

And we build iwinkd.com

Going back to the book. Let’s say we had a message for future readers

We go to iwinkd.com and create our message

“Loved this story. I want to see the movie too. I wonder if there is some thing like this about Japan winning the war”

iwinkd gives us a tag

“your iwinkd tag is hot8725”

We attach the tag to the book

and return the book to the library

The next borrower....

She finds our tag

She enters the tag at iwinkd

hot8725

She reads our message..... and comments too

“Loved this story. I want to see the movie too. I wonder if there is some thing like this about Japan winning the war”

“Search for fatherland on youtube for a clip. The DVD is hard to find”

Other future readers can

embed youtube, mapsin addition to

text

continuing the conversation we started

Where else can use iwinkd

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Tag a movie poster and start talking about it. iwinkd works on mobile browsers

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Tag an event poster and let people find information about the event.

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Cafes can tag themselves allowing visitors to share comments, reflections.

Invite people to come over to see videos, maps of your property

iwinkdrent99

iwinkd:talk99

Talk about Mr. Bush

iwinkd:job889

Make it easy for people to note/remember your adverts

ideas, suggestions come to iwinkd.com and enter tag

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thanks and see you guys at another event

Preetam Rai, preetamrai@gmail.com