Semacode got slashdotted again although this time we didn't get a direct link so we can't see such a huge impact in our logs (Monday we had 35K hits, an average day is 10-20K).

mysticalgremlin writes "In a recent presentation, Semacode founder Simon Woodside presents his company's bar code scanning technology that is used in mobile phones. Simon also discusses many places where bar code scanning powered phones are being used. Not bad for an 'image recognizer for a 100 MHz mobile phone processor with 1 MB heap, 320x240 image, on a poorly-optimized Java stack'"

The link takes you to the CS Club at UW, where you can see a complete video of my talk that I gave there . Topics include a brief history of myself/Semacode, a little bit about business, and a fair bit about the technology and challenges.

It was a bit of a risk agreeing to do this talk on video because of the whole secrecy / business thing . But whatever. It's done.