Recently I came accross a printed URL on a wedding invitation to a wish list wish which was something like http://www.ourweddingwishes.com/?=334xTgjhaJ
and I thought, hold on this is crying for improvement. Noone is willing to type in such a horrible URL.
Well, I guessed correctly, someone else already had that idea: go to http://doiop.com/8o7a01 to open this posting …
The problem is, it took me some time to find that service (maybe due to the bad site name) …
If you could just print a 4-6 letter code (2-2000M pages) next to an unambigous icon and everyone would know that this is the entrycode to THE single global alias service every browser implicitly understands … like a barcode for webpages …
Social bookmarking sites could offer such service: http://del.icio.us/H2TZ or http://digg.com/H2TZ … their icons are well know by now.
Would that help integrating printed media and online stuff?