Facebook Launches Live Poke

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Pete Cashmore
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Facebook Launches Live Poke

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In a similar idea to the launch of GMail Paper (email on printed paper), Facebook is rolling out Live Poke today, a service in which Facebook will dispatch a real person to poke your friend.

A "Mark Zuckerberg" production, the message in the footer, is also being replaced with seemingly random names - it's currently "a Kent Schoen production", but changes on every page refresh. What's more, if you refresh the page 150 times, the entire site will turn red for the day (presumably uses a cookie).

Thanks to Karel Baloun and Lizzie Barker for the heads up.

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