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hi! i’m Tom, founder and creative director of POKE.  i live in CT, work in NYC, munch on tasty digital cookies, collect lunchboxes, take lots of photos and buy lots of t-shirts.  mmm…cookies. i’m passionate about creating a safe internet for kids, cookies, really great Italian cooking, all kinds of dogs, digital photography and the power of technology and how it affects our daily lives. i’d love to tell you i read a lot - but i just don’t. so there. Psychotic.

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tom ajello for president

damn right. :P



Someone was telling me about this at dinner the other night so I went and hunted it down. It’s a great example of dynamic content affecting video. You see it a lot in interactive stuff…not very often in video. Kudos to Paltalk for a cool execution.


Shame the player sucks tho - no scrubber. It is kinda also a shame this thing couldn’t run on one of the more popular video distribution sites. And while I’m at it…shame they didn’t give the user access to more of the data so we could make more changes to the video.

Aaaand I’m out.

Reader Comments (3)

Tom,
Love it! While it's not perfect this is exactly the kind of low barrier to entry, simple viral app that gets passed on to thousands of people -- like Elf Yourself.

They say that imitation is the best form of flattery, so if you don't mind I'm robbing this shit and posting it on the Third Place (with my name on it, of course). I just entered the race for President baby.

Warmest,
Brad

August 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBradley Kay

K.I.S.S. - this works. Modular video will continue to be a hit. I liked the Dexter one that Showtime did sliceoflifetv.com...fun stuff.

August 11, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAVK

Sheeeeeeeit - Now that is some cool internets.

August 12, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterD'Brickashaw

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