POKE Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/ Poke London ltd Poke London Rss Feed Filtered on Project Launch info@pokelondon.com 2008-09-08 14:31:00 <![CDATA[Where is Jont ?]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/where-is-jont-/

As part of the first wave of Orange's new 'I Am' activity we've put together the Orange Unlit Tour.

Visit the blog and see what's going on right now.

Star-of-tomorrow Jont, and his trusty sidekick Dave are out on the road in their tour van. We've pimped it out with all the latest gizmos and gadgets so you can see every detail of their every move. Harnessing the power of Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and a load of other handy web-stuff you'll be full to the brim with Jonty goodness.

But they're not on just any old tour. It's a tour with an Orange difference. It's a tour that's made by everyone. The venues are peoples' houses. And the support bands are acts who've got involved via MySpace.

The proper edited first gig will be online soon on MySpace TV - we'll stick it up here as soon as it's ready...

And if you want to follow where they're going and what they're up to there's a handy widget just like the one below...

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/where-is-jont-/ 21/08/2008 02:48:50 PM 21/08/2008 02:48:50 PM
<![CDATA[You've got to Give to Get]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/youve-got-to-give-to-get/

Orange RockCorps is alive and kicking, making a difference in a community near you.

Thanks to our partners and friends at Orange, RockCorps, technical partner Dreambox Creations and to the volunteers who turn up every day to earn their ticket.

Now listen to Busta, get involved and bag a ticket to the gig of the year at the Royal Albert Hall on 26th September. We'll see you there!

 

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/youve-got-to-give-to-get/ 07/08/2008 03:46:25 PM 07/08/2008 03:46:25 PM
<![CDATA[I Am Mark Beaumont]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/i-am-mark-beaumont/ This is Mark Beaumont. He's the star of Orange's latest 'I Am' commercial. This year he broke the round-the-world cycling record, covering 18,000 miles in 194 days, which is pretty incredible when you think about it. Poke asked Orange if we could shoot a documentary to accompany the ad that viewers of interactive telly would be able to watch by pressing the red button, and they said "yes".

You can view it here too.

 

 

 

Visit the Site: I Am Everyone

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/i-am-mark-beaumont/ 07/08/2008 02:53:40 PM 07/08/2008 02:53:40 PM
<![CDATA[MotoRokr Vid Peek]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/motorokr-vid-peek/  

Here's David Elsewhere 'demonstrating' the ModeShift feature of the Moto E8 (ModeShift lets you switch the device between music player and phone mode in one simple click).

There's a few places you can go to see all the Motorola Rokr stuff we've just launched... 

If you want to find out more about the device - head over here:
http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/rokre8/

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/motorokr-vid-peek/ 13/07/2008 02:10:05 PM 13/07/2008 02:10:05 PM
<![CDATA[David Elsewhere and MotoRokr E8]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/david-elsewhere-and-motorokr-e8/

To demonstrate the features of the new Motorola E8. Poke enlisted the help of legendary mover David Elsewhere (to call him a dancer doesn't really describe the half of it). We worked with Motorola to find a way that could combine content and product demo in a fresh way. Maybe even making it interesting enough that people might talk about (and distribute) a product demo...

To check all the videos visit the site at:

http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/rokre8/experience/

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/david-elsewhere-and-motorokr-e8/ 11/07/2008 05:18:53 PM 11/07/2008 05:18:53 PM
<![CDATA[Big Thanks To All Balloon Pilots]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/big-thanks-to-all-balloon-pilots/

Well after a week of ballooning around it's all over. Playballoonacy.com has closed down. The race is finished and the winners have been announced.

Reginald Ringtail the Raccoon came first followed closely by a couple of Dolphins.

There's a load of people to thank:

  • Thanks to everyone who raced balloons - we hope you had fun.
  • Thanks to all the people who let the race pass across their sites - we hope you got some new visitors who stuck around and checked out your page(s).
  • Thanks to all the people who worked to make it happen (they know who they are and how much work it really took!).
  • Thank you to the internet for not breaking ;-)
  • And last of all thank you to Orange for taking a punt and believing in us (again).
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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/big-thanks-to-all-balloon-pilots/ 01/07/2008 12:58:23 PM 01/07/2008 12:58:23 PM
<![CDATA[The Race is on! Give your mates a Buddy Boost]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/the-race-is-on-give-your-mates-a-buddy-boost/ So, at lunchtime Tuesday we released over 30,000 balloons out onto the Internet. They're now floating free, being guided by their owners and boosted by their friends. Balloonacy has taken off, and we're hooked. If you thought Powerpoint was a productivity killer, just get a balloon and watch the hours disappear!]]> Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/the-race-is-on-give-your-mates-a-buddy-boost/ 25/06/2008 11:21:31 PM 25/06/2008 11:21:31 PM <![CDATA[Up Up And Away...]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/up-up-and-away-/

The Balloon Race starts tomorrow.

We're all holding our breath. Or we would be if we had any left after blowing up all them balloons.

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/up-up-and-away-/ 23/06/2008 11:03:18 AM 23/06/2008 11:03:18 AM
<![CDATA[The Topshop Helmut Newton Photo Machine]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/the-topshop-helmut-newton-photo-machine/

Fancy yourself as a model? A stylist? A photographer?
Get down to Topshop and you can be all three. The Newton Machine is here and it's not just for 20-something fashionistas - there's all sorts; girls, boys, girls and boys, men and women - there's even a couple doing something rather dodgy from behind.

Check out what's going on at Newton Machine Topshop for our latest collaboration with everyone's High Street favourite.

Oh! - and you could win a trip to Berlin and stay in the super chic Lux 11 Hotel...

You can read more about it in the portfolio.

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/the-topshop-helmut-newton-photo-machine/ 12/06/2008 07:04:56 PM 12/06/2008 07:04:56 PM
<![CDATA[Prepare for launch]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/prepare-for-launch/

We're proud to pre-launch the World's First Internet Balloon Race, to promote the launch of Orange's Animal tariffs for pay as you go customers.

As far as we're aware this is the first time that balloons have been set off across the web. And the balloons aren't just going to float over a little bit of the web. They're going to race over as much of the web as wants to take part - excluding sites that feature naked folk doing bad stuff.

To sign up for a balloon visit: http://www.playballoonacy.com

The person whose balloon goes the furthest over the 7 days of the race is going to get a killer prize. It's an £18,000 holiday to Ibiza for you and 7 mates. 18 grand gets you quite a bloody awesome holiday, even in Ibiza. And there's a load of daily prizes too.

If you've got a site / blog you can go here to get balloons to go over your site - we're hoping this will bring lots and lots of balloon fans to your pages once the race gets going.

Note: it's only in the registration stage just now - the real magic starts in a couple of weeks when the balloons set sail and the race begins...

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/prepare-for-launch/ 03/06/2008 03:13:37 PM 03/06/2008 03:13:37 PM
<![CDATA[Spot the Bull - It's Back & It's Better]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/spot-the-bull-its-back-its-better/

Spot the Bull is back. And, it’s bigger and better than last year.

Orange were so pleased with Derek (the Bull) last year that they demanded a sequel. We auditioned far and wide, but couldn't do better than going back to the source. So, this year we're proud to present Winston - son of Derek. He's younger (obviously) and more nimble, so nailing exactly where he'll be at 3pm each day is a bit more challenging.

But by totally redesigning the site and adding these new features we've made it a whole lot more fun too.

  • team play allowing you to win up to 8 tickets per group of friends
  • live multi-cam video streaming from the field
  • real time stats and bull-tracking - enabling strategic team play

If you want to win Glastonbury tickets - this is officially the biggest ticket givaway competition in the world - so get stuck in.

Play Spot the Bull now. Get your friends to play with you, and you’ll get a higher chances of winning those treasured tickets.

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/spot-the-bull-its-back-its-better/ 29/05/2008 05:51:26 PM 29/05/2008 05:51:26 PM
<![CDATA[More Miss Moss]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/more-miss-moss/ A juicy new site for Topshop to present Kate Moss's latest Collection. Read about it in the portfolio, or if you've got a second visit the site.

 

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/more-miss-moss/ 18/03/2008 04:03:18 PM 18/03/2008 04:03:18 PM
<![CDATA[Saving the world, one click at a time.]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/saving-the-world-one-click-at-a-time-/ BBC Green is the new green and sustainable living website designed by Poke in collaboration with MultiAdaptor for BBC Worldwide.]]> Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/saving-the-world-one-click-at-a-time-/ 14/03/2008 09:56:57 AM 14/03/2008 09:56:57 AM <![CDATA[A Brand New Site for Jenny Packham]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/a-brand-new-site-for-jenny-packham/

Jenny Packham, designer of choice to Hollywood A-listers Keira Knightley, Eva Longoria and Beyonce, asked Poke to design a beautiful, new website showcasing both her ready-to-wear and bridal ranges.

 

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/a-brand-new-site-for-jenny-packham/ 03/01/2008 05:36:09 PM 03/01/2008 05:36:09 PM
<![CDATA[The New Poke Website]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/the-new-poke-website/ OK, OK, we know we should have had a new site back in 2003 or whenever it was that having a new website was really cool, but you'd be amazed how long it takes for a bunch of web 'experts' to pull together what might look like a fairly basic site.

For a start client work always seems to get in the way. And then you've got to try and mediate between a load of people with very different views of what the site should look like, be like and everything down to the choice of bolts you use to attach the server to the wall in the place where all the computers go.

Anyway after lots of false starts and all kinds of constructive rowing (as in having arguments not paddling boats down rivers) here's our new site...

The purpose of the redesign is to make it easier to find stuff (and in the background make it a lot easier for us to update too).

It's not perfect and there's a few bits and bobs that we're still working on, but we've heard that it's OK for your site not to work. In fact it's really uncool if your site isn't in some kind of terminal beta.

Hope you like it in spite of any little wibbles, glitches or typos.

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/the-new-poke-website/ 06/12/2007 02:40:25 PM 06/12/2007 02:40:25 PM
<![CDATA[Orange Unlimited]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/orange-unlimited/ We've just launched the most complicated and technically advanced single web page we've ever built. I suppose a 'never ending webpage' was always going to be a bit of a challenge. But it gets even trickier when you're trying to cram it full of really fun things that people can endlessly muck around with (and then make those things completely portable).
Why on earth would anyone conceive of such a thing?
Well it's an unlimited web page, to promote a lots of unlimited offers from Orange.

You can read more in the portfolio. Or better still just go and visit the site and see for yourself what it's all about.]]>
Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/orange-unlimited/ 01/11/2007 10:17:26 AM 01/11/2007 10:17:26 AM
<![CDATA[Get on Board With The WWF]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/get-on-board-with-the-wwf/ A project for WWF. The objective is to create interest and noise around the climate change bill. Ultimately driving people to lobby their MP to push for a stronger climate change bill.]]> Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/get-on-board-with-the-wwf/ 19/10/2007 03:50:52 PM 19/10/2007 03:50:52 PM <![CDATA[More Kate Moss]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/more-kate-moss/

You might think by looking at the tabloids that all Kate Moss does is hang around with rockstar BFs, get into scrapes and smoke fags. And there's no doubt that she does some of that kind of thing.

But she also manages to find time to come into Poke and hang around and help us to make a nice website for her Topshop collection. She's really lovely and she makes a killer cup of tea, and there was this one time when she she came to the office and forgot to wear any clothes...

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/more-kate-moss/ 15/10/2007 11:08:20 AM 15/10/2007 11:08:20 AM
<![CDATA[This Is A Cool Wall]]> http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/this-is-a-cool-wall/

If you know Top Gear you'll know the Cool Wall. It's the bit where the presenters argue about which cars are cool or not and Clarkson says something about a Vauxhall Nova being like the anus of a squid, that kind of thing.

Anyway we've just lauched a multi user community driven Cool Wall. So now you can have your say, compare it with your mates, and find out what Clarkson makes of your choices. Read more in the Poke portfolio. Or just head on over to the Top Gear Cool Wall and get stuck in.

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Project Launch http://www.pokelondon.com/story/project-launch/this-is-a-cool-wall/ 02/06/2007 12:10:54 PM 02/06/2007 12:10:54 PM