Poken

Poken, which was a new era of business card exchanges: The challenges and future of profile exchanges

Tiny gadget that allows “touch” to exchange profiles. Poken is a small gadget the size of a keychain with a USB port and characters such as animals and aliens on both sides. As mentioned above, it is a profile exchange gadget that allows users to register various profiles, such as their name, e-mail address, SNS account, and blog URL, and exchange them with the Poken of the other party.

I explained VESS Card as “something like a Poken,” but he didn’t get the message. - exchange of business cards

nishio I wrote this because it reminded me of 2009.

• koizuka Poken, it never caught on. The people who got it tried to propagate it, but it was difficult to spread because of the poor availability of the actual situation.

  • nishio If they don’t have it, they can’t touch it, so a certain amount has to be poured into the community for it to catch on.

  • In that sense, VESS Card is likely to generate a strong viral effect because the other side can touch it if their phone has an NFC reader.

• @kur: @nishio I miss it… touch doesn’t mean you can check it on the spot, so you can’t talk about it! …

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