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"One of the first results of the collaboration between the two companies was an online campaign inviting people to make spoof videos of P&G's "Talking Stain" TV ad and post them to YouTube. The original ad, aired during the Super Bowl, shows a job candidate being drowned out by a talking stain on his shirt that babbles nonsense every time the man tries to speak during an employment interview. Spoof campaigns can be risky. What if people post something rude about your product -- or don't participate at all? This "never would have happened" previously, says Mr. Stengel, who left P&G last month to start his own firm. It's "something [P&G is] really wrestling with: How does a brand morph from one-way to two-way communication with the consumer?" P&G tried to enforce limits. It provided prospective spoofers a toolkit of official logos. And it demanded that any stains appearing in mock ads must come from an approved list, ranging from a mai tai to spinach dip. (Grease, blood or ink was forbidden because the Tide - Roshan Vyas

..."Tide to Go stain-removing pen doesn't work on those stains.) In the end, of the 227 spoofs submitted, a handful were deemed good enough by P&G to air on TV. The campaign was successful enough that Tide plans to use more consumer-generated content in the future, P&G says." - Roshan Vyas

A copyrighted article cannot be entirely copy-past on a website, but thanks to the "right to quote" (or "faire use" for the US), we can all quote a part of this WSJ article (10 lines per person) and share the all article legally. I may be wrong, but it's so cool to be able to read unaccessible content without hacking author rights in the process. Thanks Friendfeed! - Jérôme Flipo

Wait, did I go over 10 lines? - Roshan Vyas

Hello Jess - click on digg icon for the article. Now click on the url of this article on digg site. It allows you to see the full text. - Atul Arora

@Atul: Neat workaround! Does WSJ have some kind of partnership with Digg or something? Thanks :-) - Jess Lee

@jess - digg/wsj partnership is about a year old according to techcrunch - http://www.techcrunch.com/2007... - Atul Arora

thanks for the tip Atul - Adam Kazwell

Atul, you rock. Thanks. - Ginger Makela

I think I said 320 Obama 218 McCain on a similar friendfeed thread. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Obama 353 - McCain 185 - Aaron Hood

I think 285 Obama. - Roberto Bonini

The predictions will be more interesting if you include your location with them... I find local coverage/ attitude colors what you think the outcome will be. - Clare Dibble

im hoping for something like this: "And the winner is... And the winner, instead of any of the nominees, is the legendary Harold Zoid!" :P - bob

Obama 331 - McCain 219 - Terence 10 - Terence Washington

Nightmare scenario: Dick Cheney (write-in) 270 - a$@ASAaaa24qaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 268 - Tudor Bosman

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I change my prediction to Tudor's :) - Paul Buchheit

For the DailyKos pool, I predicted 338 Obama, 200 McCain. - Kevin Fox

Fivethirtyeight says: Obama 346, McCain 192. - Amit Patel

Obama 311, McCain 227 - Ken Norton

FiveThirtyEight.com says most likely is Obama at 311 with average simulation at 346.5 Obama - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com... - Mike Reynolds

lol - William Stewart

He'd get my vote :) - Paul Buchheit

Setup the party the best I can - anna awesomesauce

Not living in America, is Obama *that* certain now ? - William Stewart

Yup.. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com... puts the chances of an Obama victory at 96%. If McCain is really the maverick he claims to be, I think he should not go down without a last-ditch effort. Though it is not clear what exactly he ought to do at this late hour... - Bindu Reddy

Nothing is certain. Polls are likely to be off and there's still a lot that can happen in the next week. - Paul Buchheit

A week is a long time in politics. Precisely what, if anything, could change the way things are at the moment - I don't know. - Roberto Bonini

If only the election was decided by media commentators, Obama would have a landslide. Unfortunately the unwashed masses have a vote - 1 man 1 vote to be precise. - William Stewart

The right thing for him to do would be to go to the close Senate race states and try to pump those up to help the party. He can't win the presidency. He might also try to make Sarah Palin look as good as possible in preparation for 2012. But he'll undoubtedly just keep name calling instead and ruin his reputation with people like me who once respected him. - Stephen Foskett

drop Palin. - Neha Narula

I'd start telling my campaigners that there are lots of historical examples when people told the pollsters one thing but did another once they got into the voting booth. - Adewale Oshineye

Lee Harvey Oswald. - Private Sanjeev

If he wants what's best for his party he will not position Palin as the new face of the party, but rather someone like Romney or even try to find a younger, more intellectual conservative. You'll see a lot of McCain's top advisers and staff tearing Palin to shreds Nov. 5th. - Jason Carreira

Fake a terrorist threat. Distract people from the economy and make them worry about terrorism/national security, which is something McCain seems more qualified to deal with than Obama, given his military background. - Jess Lee

The connection between this and McCain (or the RNC) could never be proven, of course, but McCain's campaign would benefit if Palin was assassinated by an American-born, black muslim suicide bomber. - Tudor Bosman

Re: me "endorse Obama" idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Paul Buchheit

throw the ball into the end zone as the clock runs out and hope someone on your team catches it...and if someone does catch the ball look up at the scoreboard to see that you're still down by 7. - peter

Um... "Lee Harvey Oswald?" WTF does that mean? - ha3rvey

tudor has the best novel pitch - Gregory Lent

Take a nice nap. - Glen Campbell

No. - Kenneth LeFebvre

Hell No! - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl

The government doesn't really pay for anything. The question is really should some Americans pay for other American's health insurance. Not sure if it's related, but I'd like to get rid of all the drug commercials. - Chris White

just ask a European. I'm great friends with someone from Ireland that thinks socialized healthcare is the worst option possible. - shaun mclane

+1 Chris' comment - Glenn Slaven

OK, more precisely - do you agree with Barack Obama on his health-care proposal: http://www.barackobama.com/iss... - basically the government / tax payers are going to be subsidizing health insurance for cash strapped families. - Bindu Reddy

We have partial socialized health care, which is medicare, but I don't know how well it is going. - seman

I think there should be a minimum of health care US citizens can rely on. However, there are a lot of expensive and optional procedures and drugs that I'm not convinced are in the best interest of the economy. We definitely don't want 90% tax rates. - Chris White

I think that access to basic health care should be considered a basic right, just like access to basic education. I think that all people should be required to have a basic level of health insurance, just like auto insurance, and the government should help pay for those who can't afford it. In the long run, it will cost us a lot less, because the uninsured will not always resort to the emergency room, which is very expensive, and is already subsidized through private health insurance. - Robert Felty

Chris has it. Our taxes - our money - would pay for everyone's health insurance. Health care is broken but I'm not sure that's the solution. Problem is, too many are simply not taking care of themselves, wolfing down fast food and pepsi, smoking menthols and treating a day at the mall as exercise. More education? Or is it simply personal (ir)responsibility? - AJ Kohn

@AJ - Canada has a remarkably similar lifestyle to us, yet has lower death rates and infant mortality rates, which paying about 1/2 as much per person on health care. As far as I can tell it is pretty much just because the poor people have access to health care. See http://www.yesmagazine.org/art... for more info - Robert Felty

Rights in the constitution are all negative rights (all but 1). You have a right to not have your speech oppressed. This makes sense because a positive right requires action on the part of another party, e.g. you must go to jury duty. A positive right to health insurance means others MUST pay for you. That isn't right. No - Ivan Kirigin

You have a right to basic health care. But you don't have the right to have someone else pay for it. Therefore you shouldn't be denied care that you can pay for. If you want to pay for everyone's healthcare just take another 20% out of your salary (like you would in Sweden) and give it to non-profit hospitals. You can actually give a little more than that, as you will get a tax break by doing it. - Sam Pullara

I would expect that doctors whose salaries are effectively dictated by the government would be less likely to practice, for example. And from what I understand about many socialized systems, the government's care is free but private care is expensive -- more so than in America because there are fewer users of private healthcare. So Canada can spend half as much just by paying the doctors less and not doing as many tests/procedures. As long as they give good perinatal and elder care, you'd never realize that an ordinary Canadian will die waiting 6 months for an MRI or have to come to the US to get it. - Gabe

This is one (maybe the only) thing I like living in Italy. Health welfare. Hurra! (Yes, but not a insurance. Just provide the service) - Claudio Cicali

Strategically, paying for health care would reduce the amount of taxes Americans already spend on uninsured families. When a family cannot afford insurance, when they are making purchase decisions based on a small budget, they don't visit doctors for preventative maintenance. That means when family members get sick, they go to the emergency room, which costs taxpayers much more. If you're the kind of person who waits before visiting the dentist until it turns in to root canal, you understand my point. - Robert Konigsberg

Usually the editorial-page team is completely separated from the reporting team. - Jim Norris

Harsh: "His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress." - j1m

Employees can network with customers on a company-owned platform as opposed to Facebook. Right now, employees have to use Facebook/apps to mingle with customers externally. Again, this only may apply to large companies, bug Ning is the closest thing to it already. - Elias Torres

I think FB for companies would be pretty useful... you could post status updates much like twitter, use the posted items / notes feature to post design documents / links to demos and such and profiles to look up phone numbers/emails and maybe even use pages as project pages. It would be internal groups, moma, basic wiki and twitter rolled into one... The news feed could also be tweaked on a per company basis to be pretty useful. - Bindu Reddy

I'd like the opportunity to pet my manager's (fluff)Friend for extra brownie points. - Gary Burd

he he... one could build all sorts of silly apps. What a great way to spend your 20% time - Bindu Reddy

linkedin feels like a facebook for companies - Pascal

Well linkedin is more of a resume-networking site... Not sure that would be the same as having an internal version of FB. - Bindu Reddy

Asshole. - Ken Norton

Such entitlement. Yuck. - Christopher Sacca

Wow... I would love to know how he feels about his sons in uniform now, our current torture policy, and particularly how most of what was done to him doesn't officially count as torture. Looks like that will not happen. - Clare Dibble

Dislike. - Erica Baker

Wow. See, the thing is I can understand being pissed off and tired with all the media and the grind. Yet, that's the job and it's not going to get easier when you're president. Secondly, pick your spots and know who you're talking to. Do this to ... a low-circ newspaper or blogger, but to Time? - AJ Kohn

Maybe the dude is just trying to sell more books. (I haven't turned to the weekly news magazines for news in ages, but isn't Time the one that is considered to be generally slightly right of center? Shouldn't it be home turf for McCain, relative to Newsweek?) - Chester

More than anything, he sounds exhausted. He'd better get some sleep before the convention! - Heidi Moon via twhirl

Describing the interview as "prickly" doesn't seem completely accurate if you listen to the audio. The interviewers' questions were a little on the pointed side (confederate flag? pre-marital sex?) -- and while McCain didn't come across as effusive or garrulous, this is not the same thing as "prickly." :-) - Karim

Worse, the transcript appears to have some errors that make McCain look bad -- after the confederate flag question, the transcript says McCain, quote, "[Does not answer]," when to me, on the audio recording, it sounds like *somebody* replies, "No." Also, the transcript says, "[long pause]" where there is, in fact, NO long pause, making it sound as if his answer is evasive, or not forthcoming, etc. - Karim

I am *not* a McCain supporter, but it seems unfair to describe him in this interview as "abrasive" when it just seems like he's being direct and to the point, or to say he was "determined to stay on message" as if that was a bad thing. It seemed a bit like they were baiting him, and they were disappointed that he didn't bite. - Karim

@Karim, agreed about the audible "no" to the confederate flag question. However, the media is accustomed to McCain's charm, particularly in one-on-one interview sessions where he's historically shined (evidence the "do I know you?" crack.) Taken in the context of how McCain usually handles interviews like this, "prickly" is accurate. - Ken Norton

Collect $200, return to Go? - Kevin Fox

So Ben gets to make FB money as well :)) - Bindu Reddy

Does that mean I'll get $10 for every YouTube video I watch? - Roshan Vyas

As long as it's not pronounced "cool" - Jim Norris

It depends on the product. Does "originally to describe an elephant gone mad, separated from its herd, running wild and causing devastation" match what you're building? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... - Paul Buchheit

Trying to find a non-descriptive name... Yes, the association to 'amok' is a bit disturbing but testing if that is what comes to mind when you first see it. So a thumbs-down than? - Bindu Reddy

im partial to wellamokutoo.com - Rob Reed

Reminds me of Akamai - Sam Purtill

if you pronounce it in portuguese it would sound something like "ouch! my ass!" (ai! meu cu!) - Leandro Koiti Sato

It doesn't do much for me, but I also sold Apple stock when it hit $44, so I'm probably not the best judge. - Jim Graham

Has a soft non-threatenting Hawaiian coffee drink connotation too. - Michael Muller

try something like avakaya.com in the same spirit of ooyala.com by some other ex-googlers :) - Krishna Gade

My first thought was "amok you", which sounds decidedly unfriendly. - Laurence Gonsalves

Is this like single-bit twitter? "Am ok, you?" If it's something like that, once I get the association, it is memorable. - Neil Kandalgaonkar

Initial gut reaction: "meh". Feels like you spun the wheel of five-letter-words still available as domain names and this one came up. I don't really like that it isn't obvious how to pronounce it. Hard to pronounce can mean hard to remember. - Dylan Parker

Hmm, I like the idea of single-bit twitter. Why not 1-bit ff? At any time, you can add an item to your feed. All items are 1 bit, Like/NotLike. Just like in the real ff, friends can comment, again with just Like or NotLike. - j1m

1 - ⓞnor

0 - j1m

Sounds good to me. Do you think the people on FF would have given a thumbs up to ebay or a misspelled number? :) - Chris White

http://www.maplandia.com/ghana... - Jutta Degener

It's ukoma, but backwards. Hmm. - Adam Lasnik

nay !! - James Ramya Rajan J

Amoku means "smelly toenails" in Vietnamese. - Ken Norton

test - say it to 4 friends over the phone. how many type it in correctly? - peter

Thanks to everyone for their responses... Clearly we are not going to pick Amoku now :). - Bindu Reddy

whats the product suite or is it in stealth mode ? - Peter Dawson

It sounds like "Amok Time" the episode of Star Trek where Spoke goes through Pon Far, the Vulcan mating season. - Kevin Shannon