do you poken? come poken with me!
What is a Poken? In short, it is a digital name card. A small device that you plug in to the USB hub in your computer to retrieve the ‘name cards’ that you collected from other people with Pokens. But first you would need to register/ set-up an account at the Poken website, then edit your name card with information that you want revealed to other people when you Poken with them, e.g. your name, e-mail address(es), contact number(s), assorted website and blog addresses, Facebook username, Twitter account, MSN/ Google/ Skype ID and so on. You can choose to enter as much or as little information as you want. When you see another person with a Poken, you can choose to Poken with him or her. This means placing your Pokens to face each other (where the big palm is at) to exchange information. Something like a Touch ‘N Go thing. If the palm has a green light, it means that your information has been successfully exchanged. If it goes red, it means you’ll have to try again.
If it was successful, this is what the other person would see when they go home and download the information to their computer:
My Poken identity
As you can see, I chose to share my Twitter, Flickr and MSN ID. At this moment they do not have input for Yahoo IDs, I don’t know why.
Anyway that’s enough information on Poken. Last Saturday, I went to a Poken Up gathering at Chawan@Bangsar, organised by Niki Cheong. I’d bought a Poken from David Lian but I didn’t have the chance to Poken with anyone 
Kim was supposed to devirginise my Poken but it never happened. So Niki did it instead.
Top L-R: My first Poken was with Niki, fehmes journalist, columnist & writer! Pokening with Nigel, Editor of PC Mag. Bottom L-R: With Smashpop and April
I’d asked Horng to come along since he has a Poken as well. Met familiar and new faces there — Carolyn, Erna, Tekong, Ling Chan, icednyior among others. Basically tokkok a lot, admired Carolyn’s bling bling Poken and made remarks about Erna’s brooch substitute 
Carolyn’s Poken, Erna’s brooch
Had to dash off after a while for lunch. Thanks Niki for organising, looking forward to more Poken Ups in the future!
More reading and links:
- Poken FAQ
- Poken Asia
- Yoon Kit took apart his Poken to see what it’s about
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My Poken is so lonely here in Melbourne, poor geisha has only made friends with KY’s ninja!
.. sounds so dodgy o_O
I has Poken too!
but have you named your poken? Mine’s called Bento Takeaway!
i demand that your poken undergoes vagina reconstruction.
mell: it does..
i don’t want to elaborate!
eyeris: come let’s poken!
ky: that’s because you are an oddball
kim: i hear they do that in penang
mine’s a fukken caveman. blingified. btw http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/ is blogger as well!
…….. i dont get the poken hype at all loh.
need to customize the POKEN
it’s only useful if people that you don’t know have a poken. What’s the point of poken-ing with people that we already know right?!! Haha….
nice Pokening u. lol
Greetings ! Where did u get your poken & how much does it cost ?
i wonder if i can put a virus inside my poken. hmm….
eiling: that’s what we thought after a while hahahha .. trying to be hip and happening mah
Joyce: David Lian bought a bunch and sold it to us at cost price.. was RM60
carolyn: why would you want to do that???
i have a Poken too!! come and poken with me.