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How the Open Community Can Beat Facebook
Well, the open community can’t beat Facebook.
But companies using open technologies can – by building better products. Outside the echo chamber of web standards fanatics, the vast majority of web users don’t care about how the web works. They care about their user experience, where their friends are, and when something goes wrong, protecting their privacy.
When I read about Google Buzz (and other open-based products), it is repeatedly described as the open alternative to Facebook. Does this information help me (as a consumer) make a better decision about which product to use? No. That’s like telling the average cell phone buyer that the difference between the iPhone and Android is that the latter uses an open source operating system. When it comes to selling phones, Google relies on their search reputation and brand, not the openness of their platform.
Getting consumers to use your products, like any other retail interaction, requires offering something useful that is better than other alternatives. It is true that sometimes a backlash against one company leads consumers to switch to someone else, but they don’t “vote for the new guy”, they “vote out the old guy”. If users leave Facebook to use Google, it is not a victory for Google – it is a loss for Facebook.When it comes to showing the value in open technology, very few efforts can show how being open makes products better. Even if OpenID solved all its problems, found a less offensive solution to the NASCAR problem, got providers certified and trusted, provided a legal framework for managing liability, educated consumers, and actually worked, it will still fail without the wealth of data offered by Facebook.
Why should publishers (content and service providers) choose a solution that doesn’t deliver actual consumer value?
In an attempt to address this, the OpenID community has been looking for ways to compete with Facebook. The OpenID/OAuth Hybrid proposal was one approach. Adding rich profile data was another (in the conceptual proposal for OpenID Connect). But these are all focused on enabling technologies, not products. Even if there was a complete open solution for every Facebook feature, it would still not offer a compelling value proposition because without actual data behind it, it is nothing but empty containers.
If Facebook asked me, I would recommend using open technologies because it is good for business (when available and applicable). But to everyone else I would recommend focusing more on the product and less about the openness of the platform. Open is certainly a selling point in the enterprise market, but it is not in the consumer market.
Two years ago the big fight was against the “walled-gardens” and user data, now it is about open standards. It didn’t make a difference back then (users didn’t care) and it won’t make one now. Facebook didn’t change their data policies because of what users wanted – they changed it because of what publishers demanded, and the publishers asked for data, in whatever shape or form Facebook wanted to give it.
The reason why the newly proposed OpenID Connect protocol is actually promising is that it focuses on mobility instead of federation. Instead of trying to build a fully distributed and federated identity framework, the proposal uses OAuth 2.0 to build vendor-specific identity solutions that are all implemented the same way. By allowing publishers to move from one compliant vendor to another, it lays the groundwork for future federation and distribution.
In other words, the fact that it doesn’t embrace discovery at its core, but starts with reliance on client registration and vendor specific relationship is an assets because it guarantees better products with built-in mobility. That mobility will allow publishers to take their business elsewhere if they don’t get the data and services they want.
Good technology enables better products. Being open is just the cherry-on-top.
Then of course, there is the other option: if you can’t beat them, join them.
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(mp3) Stanley Z. Daniels, M.D. Sex For Teens - 365 Days
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June 16, 2007
365 Days #167 - Stanley Z. Daniels, M.D. - Sex For Teens (Where It's At) (mp3s)
MP3:
By request... this one is for "snoopy" who wrote, "Ooooo! Do you have "Sex for Teens" by Stanley Daniels? please, please, please, please....."
With 4 mentions of the word please and having the cdr by my computer, the call had to be answered.
Never have owned the album or the ones in the series... yes series! I have only heard this one and hope to hear the others one day. The series featured "Sex Explained For Children," "Sex For Teens (Where It's At)," and "Sex For Adults (Is Fun - Particularly When You're In Love)".
I obtained a really nice quality copy of Sex For Teens on CDR from John K. Fitzpatick (proprietor of The Oddball Auditorium years back). I remember John mentioning he found it on Napster (or maybe Audiogalaxy or Newsgroups). It's a great quality copy of my all time favorite sex-ed record (the Christopher Recordings coming in at second place). So here it is... Sex For Teens!
Oh yea, some guy named Beck sampled it too. And a handful of other folks.
- Contributed by: Otis Fodder
Media: LP
Album: Sex For Teens (Where It's At)
Label: Event/Carapan
Catalog: EV-5693
Credits: Stanley Z. Daniels, M.D.
Date: 1969Posted by 365 on June 16, 2007 at 12:30 AM in 365 Days Project, MP3s, Sex | Permalink
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It sounds like Bill wants to fuck his sister and he's jealous of her boyfriend.
Posted by: detroitsuperfly | June 16, 2007 at 07:13 AM
Speaking of requests, how about "Vertigo" by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans? It was recorded as a demo to help publicize Hitchcock's upcoming movie, but doesn't seem to be on the web anywhere. In this wondrous future day we live in, there must be somebody who could furnish an mp3 for us culture lovers.
Posted by: Kip W | June 16, 2007 at 11:42 AM
"bill, you playa hata, she ain't a 'ho, she's a biatch".
BTW, post war dad is denying and projecting something fierce, huh?
Posted by: K | June 16, 2007 at 07:38 PM
I have the "Sex For Adults" LP (the cover is currently displayed prominently on my bedroom wall) and I've always wondered what the Kids and Teens versions might sound like, since the Adults LP is closer to pornography than anything educational. It starts out with a couple visiting a doctor to discuss their sex problems, but as the record progresses the doctor goes into ever greater graphic (yet oddly poetic) description of what loving adults can do to pleasure each other. I'm looking forward to checking out just how dirty these teens get ...
Posted by: Fred | June 18, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Hola Otis,
Ha! I might have known this (sex for teens) would turn up here. I've been using it and Sex Explained For Children (which is fantastic, by the way) for over 20 years on the radio and anywhere I can. This year's 365 Days seems to be rounding up a lot of the better sex-ed records. Nice to have them all in one place for people.Posted by: Mindwrecker | June 28, 2007 at 09:19 PM
i downloaded this 3 days ago and yesterday i was listening to the cloudead album(anticon label) and heard a sample from this vinyl on pt 4. side A. what a coincidence heh. i guess a lot of people have sampled this
Posted by: shekk | July 25, 2007 at 09:27 AM
WOW!
This record is sampled by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
On a single off the "Now I Got Worry" album I think. Ad Rock scratches this record above a song with them called "COOL VEE".WAHHHAAAT A LOOSER!
Posted by: DJ | September 20, 2007 at 04:56 PM
If there was ever a record begging to get sampled...
Posted by: Sensei_Rebel | October 30, 2007 at 04:16 PM
I sometimes wonder where the special=FX laden crew splashed down with blah blah blah we're all hungry
Posted by: This is it... walkthough though | November 23, 2007 at 04:28 PM
"It sounds like Bill wants to fuck his sister and he's jealous of her boyfriend."
hahahahah yes indeed.
Posted by: Ronald Rios | January 08, 2008 at 03:55 PM
probably most famously sampled by Beck on the hit track "Where It's At".
Posted by: derek | February 17, 2008 at 05:24 PM
((probably most famously sampled by Beck on the hit track "Where It's At".))
Where in "Where It's At" did he sample?
Posted by: | April 10, 2008 at 12:58 AM
((probably most famously sampled by Beck on the hit track "Where It's At".))
(Where in "Where It's At" did he sample?)
Here are the parts used in the song.
"What about those who swing both ways? AC/DCs?"
"We're all part of the total scene"
"That's beautiful, Dad."
Where It's At info and Lyrics
http://whiskeyclone.net/ghost/songinfo.php?songID=321Posted by: Thunderpeel | May 13, 2009 at 09:45 PM
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This Week in Sex: Good Dog - WFMU's Beware of the Blog
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July 14, 2006
This Week in Sex: Good Dog
Sometimes I get tired of treking through the skankiest bogs of the internet, scraping the smut off my flip-flops before I can come in the house. I think I've seen a few too many not-safe-for-work saliva and slurping and nose fetish videos. This Week in Sex is all dogs, and not the furry fetish dogging kind, but the feel-good kind you hear about at the end of the news with the water-skiing squirrels. Sit. Stay.
Hoppy, the most amazing dog with no front legs, learned to walk upright like a human and doesn't feel silly at all doing it. (I'm working at a computer with no sound, so I'm just guessing from the video that the dog's name is Hoppy. It could also be Stumpy.)
Cheekies, the rat terrier who just wants to go to the naked beach, is caught up in a federal lawsuit. His owner says Cheekies is a service dog who gives him comfort at the naked beach, and the owner needs to go to the naked beach for a skin condition he developed post 9-11. And since Cheekies is not wearing clothes to the naked beach, what's the big deal?
Ranger, the driving dog, accidentally ran over a woman in Utah by stepping on the gearshift. "No one's called me," the woman's husband compained. "No one's said, 'I'm sorry we did this.' Nothing." Dude, Ranger is a not-very-good-at-driving dog, not a telephoning-to-apologize dog. And if he could call, he would say, "It was an accident."
Norman, the dog who is a metaphor for homosexuality, was born different. He moos. And he ends up on the side of a bus.
Bonnie, the "really lucky" dog, is so lucky she got shot in the middle of the forehead and left to die. How lucky is that?
Sam, the cyber-dog with a microchip implanted under his skin, helped 2 year-old Alexis find her way home. She had wandered out of the house before 7 a.m., and Sam tagged along. Cops scanned the dog, and returned both to the sleeping parents. "She's scary smart," her father said of Alexis. "She does her ABCs, and numbers and colors — half the stuff I wonder where she gets it." He added, "I'm gonna hafta put microchip in her, though — this thing with the police was a little too Cops at 7 a.m. I barely had my wifebeater on."
Curly, the barky Irish terrier, saved the life of 10 year-old Jean Stout when she had an asthma attack at her grandparent's house. Taking a page from the "little Billy's in the well" handbook, Curly wouldn't stop barking until Jean's parent's found her passed out in the bathtub. But Curly made the famous shout-out his own, barking "nyuk nyuk nyuk."
Duo, the abandoned dog with two noses, still needs a home. I think we can all identify with the statement of one of his rescuers, "Duo is not a freak, he's just unusual." Remember when Bronwyn told you about the dog with no nose? I think the dogs should move in together and share the extra nose.
Koni, Putin's dog, is being secretly fed too many treats by the press. Just because Putin is out kissing little boys like kittens doesn't mean he doesn't notice that "Sometimes, Koni leaves a room full of journalists with a very pleased expression on her face and biscuit crumbs around her mouth."
Pago, a German Shepherd who got bit by a police suspect, was choked and had his collar torn off in the brawl. Man and dog were both covered in blood when it was over, but the suspect was the only one who got Tasered.
Dogland. Is there anything more heartbreaking?
Pooptopia, the virtual pooper scooper game. via wemakemoneynotart
Pets or meat? Or guard dogs?
Pop quiz: Q. What language do German Shepherds speak? A Dutch.
Bee dogs. I tell people not to do the dog-clothes thing, but nobody listens.
Snackshotz flying dog food launcher, for if you don't have a kid in the house.
Dog doormat art, for if you don't let dogs in the house. Muddle by Hannah Greely.
P.S. Cats. They're good for putting stuff on. And then they hate you. I don't get the connection.
Thanks Ken and Trent and Shannon. Back to trawling for smut next week, I promise.
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A golden retriever is running for governor in Alsaka.
Posted by: Richard | July 14, 2006 at 03:07 PM
One of my favorite images of all time on the net (and I wish I had saved it) was a picture of a furrier 'convention' of a whole bunch of them posing. There were the normal sly foxes and the like and in the lower corner was a guy dressed as a shark...
I still laugh out loud thinking of that image. I mean that guy probably felt out of place at a furrier convention (if that is possible).
I love the week in sex, so thanks for digging in the bog Amanda.
-Dave
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Posted by: adult-sex-shop | March 05, 2008 at 03:41 AM
Pet Tease is a manufacturer and wholesaler of dog Apparel. They specialized in Funny dog T shirts and Tank Tops.
Great quality tank top. check those out at www.pettease.com. You need to register to get their wholesale prices or call them at 619-593-7383
Posted by: Sara | April 14, 2008 at 12:07 AM
Pet Tease is a manufacturer and wholesaler of dog Apparel. They specialized in Funny dog T shirts and Tank Tops.
Great quality tank top. check those out at www.pettease.com. You need to register to get their wholesale prices or call them at 619-593-7383
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Tim & Tom DeFrange: Alice's Song
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Members of Nichiren Shoshu of the United Kingdom: All Change Here (NSUK, 1979) LP
Ricky Hitchcock: You'll Be Signing on the Dole
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Alan Wasser & Allen Greenway: From Rags to Revenue (no label, no date) LP
Alan Wasser & Allen Greenway: Grease Doll
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Steve Birch / Hainault High Drama Workshop: Rikky ... The Musical (M-I-Y, 1978) LP
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Gus Motta / Senior Class of Georgetown University College: Gambit: A Musical Legend (no label, no date) LP
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The Aquarian Age: Hair (Itco, no date) LP
The Aquarian Age: 3-5-0-0 (Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Galt MacDermot)
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The Decibels: Hit Excerpts from the Rock Musical Godspell (Super Majestic, 1973) LP
The Decibels: Oh God, I'm Dying (Stephen Schwartz)
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Gallery Repertory Theater: Songs from the Show Salvation (MIO International, no date ) LP
Gallery Repertory Theater: Lost in the Catacombs (Peter Link & C. C. Courtney)
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Tom Hayes / The Fayetteville Manlius Rock Ensemble: Simon Sez (Silver Crest, 1971) LP
Tom Hayes: They Looked Inside My Mind
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Original Australian Cast: Oh! Calcutta! (RCA International, 1970) LP
Original Australian Cast: Much Too Soon (The Open Window)
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Chris Neal: Man-Child (M7, 1972) LP
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David Sheridan Spangler: San Francisco Morning
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