That’s the question you’re hearing up and down on Twitter right now. Vaughan Rivett has something to say about this and I agree. The answer is easy: a simple transfer of contact data with equally low entry barrier as Poken is not possible with mobile phones right now.
It’s obvious with questions like: “Why Poken? I [...]

So, Poken does not want to be another social network, it wants to be seen as a service to help people connect. This is nice and such but I really think that Poken should hire a Community Manager. Or allow someone from their team to work exclusively on that for a while.
The reason is simple: [...]

So, what is a Poken, really? I mean: how do they work?
Well, here are the two versions I know:

The left one is the Poken that was inside my Lift09 badge. It doesn’t look like a production model and the date on the edge says “02.02.2009″. The “cute” Pokens have a very different layout. If you [...]