Category Archives: social objects

Bush shoe throwing hijacks

By Jonathan | Published: December 16, 2008
UPDATE: the meme has gone really big, as kind of expected. Sock and Awe has had over 46 million shoes thrown too . . . After watching the news report of a journalist throwing his shoes at George Bush this morning, I waited for the inevitable response from the web. Usually it’s from individuals able [...]
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The Ladders Experiment

By Jonathan | Published: October 19, 2008
This popped up on my Twitter stream recently – an ‘experiment’ in which $100,000 is put on display in public in the US and the resulting action is captured by a collection of hidden cameras and microphones. In a nutshell, some people just point and stare and others take more extreme action and try and [...]
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Cringey Microsoft marketing moment

By Jonathan | Published: September 2, 2008
This is unbelievable. So, so cringey – I keep thinking it’s an ironic viral thing. There is so much wrong with this video. “Ease, accessibility and fashion” ? Sorry guys but there’s talking about it and then there’s actually doing it. Trying way too hard. [via Ars Technica which quite rightly asks if Microsoft [...]
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Social Objects by Mr Social Object

By Jonathan | Published: March 19, 2008
Nice interview by Shel Israel with Hugh Macleod about social objects, social markers, social marketers, social marketing and other interesting stuff. Some old stuff covered but still really nice to see Hugh talking about it himself. (Hugh, you rock BTW) No embed (boo!), click through to watch at Fast Company.
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