I was lucky to meet the German Affiliate of Poken S.A. in Cologne and get some facts about the new business Pokens:

• Might be available as soon as August
• No more limit to 64 contacts in one session
• 2 GB USB on-board Flash memory
• Extended battery life
• 4 basic designs
• Special limited artist editions

No information about the price except that they will be “affordable”. So it seems the “little black Pokens” will really be available pretty soon. And furthermore Poken S.A. seems to have lots of other things in the pipeline, so I’m pretty psyched about the things to come.

We launched Pokendesign in Germany, together with the nice people from Mission Poken. Last week, we also offered an English version and we’re still in the process to polish everything up.

So, what is Pokendesign?

After the last competition we were very pleased with the results. But we were not so sure what to do with the nice card designs. So we built a platform where users can upload and share their card designs for Poken card backgrounds. So YOU can help color up the Poken world!

In other news, we finally managed to sit down and have a talk with the Poken guys to talk about the upcomming business Poken. Interested? Stay tuned, we’ll keep you updated this weekend.

Call to Action

So I say we’ll create them ourselves. I call a competition to create cool new background designs for Poken ID cards. Give me color!

The Rules

You create a design for a Poken ID card based on the standard Poken background.Upload it somewhere (you page, blog, flickr account) and link it here in the comments. You can create as many designs as you like but only your best one will count.

All designs have to be published under the Creative Commons License so that everybody is able to use them in their profiles.

The competitions ends on the 25. of April 2009 at 00:00 – so the 24. will be the last day. The winner will be chosen by me and announced the following weekend.

The Prices

As already mentioned in a preious post, I just received a Black Pack of Pokens. I’ll donate 3 of those for those who create the best designs: one Frankenstein, one Geisha and one Scream-Poken.

• The winner can choose one of the three mentioned Pokens he likes best
• The runner up can choose one between the remaining two
• The third price will be the remaining Poken

Examples

It would be nice if you would spread the word about this competition. Let’s color out profiles up together!

Here are some examples to get you going:

The new features include:

• On the front page, right under the logo, you can see if a Poken is currently connected
• The main menu now unfolds to give you easy access to the most important tasks
• Left of your own ID card you’ll see your current number of Poken contacts
• Your own contacts are now browsable by timeline and alphabetically with a new pagination, with 9 contacts on each page
• Individual contacts can now be easily exported as vCards
• You can add tags to each contact during import or manually from your list of contacts

The page really improved through these features and I’m looking forward to more changes that will gradually be added. Nice job, Poken!

There are also two new french blogs:

• World Poken Tour allows you to accompany a Poken on it’s journey throughout the world
• Poken Belgique is a nice informational blog

Both are worth a look if you understand the language.