Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel

CTO, PHP Programmer, Affiliate Marketer & IT Consultant

Angry Poken Ninja

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Ninja PokenThis is Chuck. He’s my angry Poken Ninja. Why is he angry? Because he has no friends.

Well, that’s not entirely true, he has 2 friends: Shawn & Missy – but they met before I got Chuck. But since Chuck came into my house, he hasn’t met anyone new.

Poken are these little devices that “talk” to each other via RFID (or something like that). When they’re near each other (or, in Pokenese, when they “high-four”) they swap IDs. Then, when you login to doyoupoken.com, you see the contact info for the person you high-foured.

The nice thing is if someone changes their phone number, or e-mail, or… whatever, you have that change. The bad thing is I have nobody else to high-four. So even though there are people I know, and talk to regularly, if our Pokens didn’t meet, its like we don’t know each other.

Will this Poken craze take off? What’s needed to make it succeed? Personally, I think my Poken will soon find a spot on the shelf, only to collect dust. What do you think?

Whether or not Pokens will go mainstream, I wanted to thank Shawn for sending me my Poken! Now I just need to find him some friends.

Comments
  • Poken Pics
    Posted September 18, 2009 8:51 pm 0Likes

    I know how you feel Eric. Same thing happened to me. I got this cute little poken, and nobody has one here, and all of my buddies from ASE09 aren’t on my poken friends.

    At least you can take a few pics with Chuck, and then submit them to my site: World Poken Tour

  • Shawn Collins
    Posted September 18, 2009 9:35 pm 0Likes

    For what it’s worth, my Poken is proud to be friends with yours.

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