I’ve been playing with QR codes for the last couple weeks after my first introduction to a Droid Eris by a colleague of mine.  Any smart phone with a barcode scanning app or a qr code reader can simply open the app, point their device at the code and the app will automatically do whatever the “bar code like image” tells it to.

I was thinking about ways to play with these, and while cooking up creative ways to try to help sell my house, it occurred to me that qr codes may have the possibility to play a major role in real estate marketing – if executed properly.

Consider the many places you could easily place the qr code:

• On printed brochures
• Print newspaper ads
• Upload the image of the code to the main data feed as an “image of the home”
• Billboards
• TV spots
• Website banners
• Craigslist

The possibilities are almost literally endless – and with the increased availability of smart phone devices, there is some great potential.

For those of you with a smart phone device, scan the code below and share this post to help me sell this damn house

If you don’t have a smart phone with a barcode scanner or qr reader installed – click the text link below to see where the code would take if you bought a nicer phone.

Sioux Falls House For Sale

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Yesterday I decided to take a well deserved day off. As some of you may or may not know I have made a decision to move to the Twin Cities area to work as a consultant for the Web Advantage team at FindLaw.com. I checked my daily “to do” list yesterday and had a couple small tasks that were finished before 9:00 am.

I then had the whole house to myself until noon, so I figured it was a good opportunity to play some Tecmo Super Bowl.  Rather than hooking up the old NES I decided I would just download the game to the virtual console on my Wii.  Unfortunately, Tecmo Super Bowl was not available for download, however the original NES version of Tecmo Bowl was available for download for only 500 points ($5), and since I had been given a 500 point credit recently from the Wii people, it all seemed like to much of a coincidence to pass up.

I got the game, started a season with the L.A. Raiders (nobody stops Bo Jackson) and began wooping up on the computer.  After somehow getting backed up to my own 1 yard line, I stumbled upon a glitch in the game that allows one to pass to their own guy in the opposing team’s endzone and get a touchdown for it.

I tried it several times in a row and it worked everytime (of course it doesn’t hurt that Bo catches every screen pass).  I decided to shoot a quick video of it so I could share it.

Note:  I was too lazy to hook up the NES and see if it works on it, or if there was a glitch in the Wii version of it.  I am guessing it is probably new to the Wiiware version of the game, because I don’t know how I wouldn’t have stumbled upon that with the hundreds of hours I spent playing this game as a kid.