#ConvComm
Everything related to brands, services, companies, and bots entering conversational contexts (voice, messaging, etc). #ConvComm
Collection by Chris Messina
blog.salesfloor.net
Salesfloor Acquires Conversational Commerce Leader Automat
3 min read · Jan 14th · Salesfloor platform upgraded with addition of Automat “Retail Sales Automation” and Conversational AI. · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
corporate.walmart.com
The Future is Conversational: How Voice and Text are Transforming Shopping
2 min read · 2021-10-15 · Oct. 14, 2021 By Dominique Essig, VP of Conversational Commerce, Store No8 We’re all doing a million things at once. We’re driving the kids to school while making a mental grocery list. We’re doing… · Shared by 5, including Chris Messina
shopshops.live
ShopShops EN – Curious Cultured Chic Community driven
2021-09-15 · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
San Francisco Chronicle
He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death. So he brought her back as an A.I. chatbot
20+ min read · 2021-07-23 · The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious artificial intelligence website allow him to speak with her once more? · Shared by 205, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jessica Gioglio, kate wagner!, Dr. Alec Couros, Andreas Staub, Polina, Carolina A. Miranda, Tactical Tech, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Bob E. Hayes, Avinash Kaushik, Mathew Ingram, Gerd Leonhard, John Hagel, Chris Messina, Josh Wolfe, Jason Hirschhorn, Wilhelm Su, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Chris MacDonald
The Economist
Will conversational commerce be the next big thing in online shopping?
3 min read · 2021-07-10 · More companies are reaching consumers with messaging apps | Business · Shared by 17, including Jennifer Stirrup #MBA #AI Next up: O'Reilly webin, Chris Messina, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dave Kellogg
about.fb.com
Introducing Facebook Shops
3 min read · 2021-06-22 · Shops is expanding to WhatsApp and Marketplace Shops ads solutions will help businesses personalize the shopping journey New technologies like Instagram visual search and AR Dynamic Ads will power the… · Shared by 24, including Matt Navarra, Mari Smith, Chris Messina, Jon Loomer
blog.google
LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology
1 min read · 2021-05-18 · LaMDA adds pieces to one of the most tantalizing sections of the language puzzle: conversation. · Shared by 113, including Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Pete Skomoroch, Richard MacManus, Emily M. Bender, Bob E. Hayes, Timnit Gebru, Markus Maurer, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Paul Roetzer
newsroom.spotify.com
Spotify Acquires Locker Room and Announces Plans for a New Live Audio Experience
4 min read · 2021-03-30 · During Spotify’s first-ever Stream On event last month, we explored the journey of creation, the promise of interactivity, and the investments we’re making to further unlock audio’s potential. Today,… · Shared by 17, including Chris Messina
Bloomberg
Empathetic Robots Are Killing Off the World’s Call-Center Industry
2021-03-17 · Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg. · Shared by 24, including Esther Schindler, Martin Ford, Chris Messina, LARRY ELKAN
Google AI
Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About…Anything
5 min read · From 2020 · Posted by Daniel Adiwardana, Senior Research Engineer, and Thang Luong, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Modern co... · Shared by 128, including Chris Messina, Mike Tamir, PhD, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, 瑞拿頭, Jose Luis Calvo, Katja Evertz, Carla Gentry, sircharlsxavier, Oleg Baskov, Johannes Lenz, Bill Johnston, Dr Catherine Breslin, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Desmond Williams, #DigitalHealth Futurist 👨💻, Elena Neira
events.withgoogle.com
Business Messages Build-an-Agent Contest
2020-12-22 · Starting in November, participate in the first ever Business Messages agent creation competition. The contest will take place in stages. You will first need to express your interest in participating… · Shared by 7, including Chris Messina
Fast Company
Why Amazon radically redesigned the Echo
6 min read · 2020-11-19 · You may be ordering one for Black Friday. But why is it shaped like that? · Shared by 33, including Chris Messina, Marsha Collier, Adrian Zumbrunnen
The Verge
Google Pay’s massive relaunch makes it an all-encompassing money app
10 min read · 2020-11-18 · Google says all of this data won’t be used for ads, but it’s still a lot of data to give to Google. · Shared by 87, including Peter Schmidhuber, rogerverhoeven, Sebastien Meunier, Chris Messina, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Felix Salmon, dunschtig, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Florian Graillot
about.instagram.com
Introducing a New Home Screen for Instagram
1 min read · 2020-11-12 · At Instagram, our focus has always been on young people and creators because they’re trendsetters. Change is happening quickly right now, including how both of these groups use Instagram and engage… · Shared by 24, including Chris Messina, Matt Navarra, Michael Schär, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mark Kaigwa
TechCrunch
Facebook adds hosting, shopping features, and pricing tiers to WhatsApp Business
6 min read · 2020-10-22 · Facebook has been making a big play to be a go-to partner for small and medium businesses that use the internet to interface with the wider world, and its messaging platform WhatsApp, with some 50… · Shared by 23, including 🇺🇦 Neal Schaffer #StandWithUkraine, Matt Navarra, Jon Loomer, Mari Smith, Chris Messina
blog.whatsapp.com
2 min read · 2020-10-22 · WhatsApp Messenger: More than 2 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere. WhatsApp is free and offers simple, secure, reliable… · Shared by 9, including Chris Messina, Ralph Hutter, Mari Smith
