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On Friday, a bunch of us Twitterers met up (or Tweetup) to go for some local stand up comedy. Dubbed “MACC or Malaysian Association Of Chinese Comedians – CNY Edition”. There were about 9 of us who met up for dinner before the show. Thanks Mei Ying for getting the tickets and organizing it, although we all know Andy made you do it…hahah. 

Group pic with performers Phoon Chi Ho, Kuah Jen Han and Douglas Lim after the show

I got to say, as it was my first time going for live stand up comedy, it was really really good. Performed by comedy trio of Phoon Chi Ho, Kuah Jen Han and Douglas Lim, most of the jokes were related to current events happening in society here in Malaysia, and also why the local Chinese (yellow) people are dubbed “second class citizens”. I would definitely recommend you to watch the show to have a good laugh. But do go with an open mind, as some of the jokes are crude and might be offensive to some.

Photo by Andy Gan

Last Thursday, a bunch of Tweeple (people from Twitter), got together for a meet up at Bangsar Village to take a look at Poken. So what the hell is a Poken? It’s a RF-based device which transmits and receives data. It looks kinda like the Tamagotchi a few years back. Poken stores contact information of yourself, and links the social media networks you’re on (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc) together in a contact card.

So imagine this: You’re out on a social event and assuming everyone has a Poken, you simply touch 2 Poken devices together, and your contact card is transmitted to the other Poken device and vice versa. Sort of like exchanging business cards, except that you don’t have to carry a stack of cards, and that it can hold more information.

Once you get back home, simply logon to the website, and upload the contacts that you have gotten. Sounds fun right? Actually there are a lot of other applications that you can use Poken for. The video below illustrates some of other applications that can be used with the Poken device which can cater to manage events and also links to Google Maps! How cool is that?

Now you must be thinking…since all my information is in there…isn’t it dangerous if I lose it? Well, yes and no. You can actually set how much information you want to send out from the website settings which will configure your Poken device. Setting the “discrete” option will only send limited details and in “normal” mode, it will send everything in your Poken profile.

My Poken…cute no?

Thanks to Eric (@kenloo) who brought the Pokens all the way from Japan. It costs about USD25 per device and will work with any machine that has a USB port. I got mine from Eric at RM60, which I thought was a really good deal. We’re probably the first batch of people who are using these Poken devices, and hopefully..with more awareness and promotions from us, Poken will be the next “big” thing in KL. So don’t be surprise next time when someone comes up to you and asks: “Do you Poken?”

Last week was really an eventful week. I went for 2 Tweetups and also dropped by for GeekCamp.

KL Tweetup 1
This was held at Chilli’s restaurant at Mid Valley. The organizers managed to book a room so that we can have a private get together without disturbing other patrons. Yes, I think we can actually scare a lot of people away if we were to hold it outside..haha! Anyway, the theme of the meet was “Gadget Fest” where everyone brought a gadget and talk about it. I must say, there were some really interesting/nostalgic gadgets. Among them are world’s first MPEG camera, the Nokia “Matrix” phone, a portable battery pack, a gadget that swears at a touch of a button and the coolest gadget that left everyone going “wooooo”…the Amazon Kindle.

The Amazon Kindle reading device

Me at the KL Tweetup

KL Tweetup 2
This second Tweetup was on the very next day and it was held in TwentyOne Kitchen+Bar. This event was organized by @BrandConsultant, @LimyH and @CreativPromoter. Unlike the previous night, there wasn’t a theme to this meet. It was an entirely different group of people as none of them came for the previous night. The group is also somewhat different. The night before, the group of people I met were young and techie, on this night, the group consists of more serious business + marketing oriented people. Honestly, I enjoyed both events equally, but more knowledge gained from this night than the previous one.

from left: @CreativPromoter, @melvinchanwh, @demonick and @ZakirJaafar

not in pic: @BlogJunkie, @LimyH, @MarketingEds, @BrandConsultant, @PeterPek, @NileshBabu

GeekCamp
Well..the title says it all doesn’t it? GeekCamp is a un-conference that was held at my office where programmers and technical specialist come together to give technical presentations and demos. The talks mainly revolve around coding, programming frameworks, tip & tricks..etc. Initially, I didn’t plan to attend it as I thought the sessions were a wee bit too technical even for me. I dropped by for 2 sessions just to see what’s it all about and also to give support (for being the host).

a scene from GeekCamp

Believe it or not, these 3 events were all co-ordinated with the use of Twitter. It only goes to show that Twitter is not just a “simple status updater” as many non-users might have assumed. It shows that it can also bring people together to be able to share and learn. So, have you “tweeted” today?

Photo credits: @rohant and @NileshBabu