Hey! We're Poke. Nice to meecha.
Click this link to chat with POKE live at live.pokenewyork.com
It started out pretty simple. A live feed in front of the “Don’t give up” sign. If you show up and don’t see anyone, you can ring the POKE-bell to see if you can coax a Poker in front of the camera. It all sounds good…however, the constant ringing of the POKE-bell by excited internetters sometimes makes us a wittle crazy.
We're still amazed by how many cool interactions we’ve had with people on the site. Job interviews, new business conversations, chats with loved ones and even magazine interviews! It's funny, sometimes we'll log in after hours and people will be up there just talking away. About the darndest things.
It's really become an ongoing experiment. Truth be told, we didn’t really have a plan for adding the webcam - just some messing around a little with Red5 - then came the added chat feature. Before we knew it, people actually started using it. Lots.
Even a year into it's existence, our little cam still has a few bugs but boy has it really been a fun ride. Below are some funny highlights to check out:
- High_five gave us our first ever ASCII Shout Out.
- POKE friend, David Armano dropped by and we just shot the breeze. Then he very kindly blogged us at Logic+Emotion’s after playing with us for a bit.
- The folks at pocketfuzz.com took turns with us turning our cameras and touring around our respective offices. They've got a great pad!
- We've received heaps of responses to our webcam driven recruitment campaign.
- The cam even caught Data Bananna filming his pilot show!
The cam has most recently found redefinition as the masthead of our new and improved Pokenewyork.com. But fear not! Follow the link "live" link above to be taken to the cam/chat experience in all its glory.
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