thanks for commenting!

As I hinted and linked in the article, NFC is on the horizon. But I think it will take much longer than 2010 until we see a critical mass of mobiles equipped with it in the actual public. You won’t buy a new mobile just to exchange contacts more easily. But some company providing cheap NFC hardware that is doing this and is compatible with future mobile implementations would be awesome (Are you listening Poken or e?).

Regarding e: Well, I would be equally in flames for e as I am for Poken, but lets face it: Poken is here and e is not. Closed Beta doesn’t cut it and I have yet to see a final production Connector for myself.

Also: of course you can have multiple profiles with Poken. You can either bind multiple profiles to one Poken device or have multiple Pokens, each with a different profile.

Regarding the german poken-o-sphere: it has not been officially launched here in Germany, so no data for now.

First, the phase we are in now seems to be a temporary one. We’re waiting for NFC to pop up in the majority of phones (late 2010), so we can connect by keeping our phones close to eachother. Untill that time, we’re stuck in the Poken/E/others phase.

Talking about E, I have to disagree on some of the points. The power of E is the combination of both platforms:
- Mobile (app OR website): you can either use the E iPhone app (which is, of course faster) or use the E website
- Connector

Another thing I really like about E is the possibility to have up to 3 different profiles. So, I can have a personal and a business profile. I really miss that in Poken.

Really curious about some data on the German poken-o-sphere; do you have any idea on numbers, audience, etc?