I’ve blogged about the Do you Poken phenomenon a couple of days ago and kind of concluded:
“Due to its design, I’m not even quite sure whether they want it to go mainstream as it rather looks funny than business like.
I reckon mobile phones with an RFID chip will do the job in the future, but I’m not a technical person, so I actually don’t have a clue ;-)”
What I had missed when I visited the Next Conference in Hamburg was the startup competition, which was won by My name is E. Just check the first 10 minutes of the footage to see their slick presentation:
As you can tell from the video, they’re basically offering the same service as Poken does, but literally more seriously, which is to say more business like.
You can exchange data via any mobile phone with an internet connection or use their so called “Connectors”.
I’ve just created my public virtual business card there:
Making it public is optional, but I’d highly recommended it, also because the links to your profiles are indexed by search engines, as they’re not (yet) “nofollow”.
Looking forward to asking random people at upcoming events if their Name is E as well :-)
