We recently announced that we’re going to support single opt-in signups for MailChimp lists right from our own signup forms. This generated a lot of great conversation about deliverability—some that we expected, and some that surprised us. As the person who’s responsible for deliverability at MailChimp, I love it when people understand why this stuff […]
JustAnswer is one of the survivors of the “answer engine” or Q&A craze that was prevalent a number of years ago. The venerable (or ancient) Yahoo Answers is still around, and so is Quora, but various efforts from Google, Facebook, Amazon and a range of startups are gone. The most recent entrant, Biz Stone’s Jelly, was
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Every month, 18 million businesses exchange more than 2 billion messages with people on Messenger, according to David Marcus, head of the Facebook-owned messaging service. That sounds like a lot, and it is. It’s 100 percent more messages than were exchanged a year ago, he said. Now, to spark more conversations between people and businesses,
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mcmurryjulie / Pixabay We live in a technology-driven society, and successful organizations need to provide customers with innovative products and features that enhance their experience beyond a simple purchase. This, of course, includes launching a reliable chatbot that can help consumers get the answers they need, solve any issues, or answer questions they may have
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Would you terminate your employees if they started keeping secrets from you? Basically, Facebook did just that when two of its experimental AI bots started to converse in a language totally alien and undecipherable to researchers. In an effort to distinguish themselves from their rivals, Artificial Intelligence has been at the forefront of research efforts
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Twitter Bots can do interesting things. For instance, a grammar bot can monitors tweets containing misspellings and tweet the correct spelling. You can tweet questions to @DearAssistant and the Twitter bot responds like Siri. The @HundredZeros bot tweets links to eBooks that are free on Amazon. @WhatTheFare will tell you the Uber fare between any two locations.
One of the frequent reasons given for ignoring search engine optimization is this: “We’re not selling to bots, we’re selling to people.” This argument highlights an ignorance of the role that SEO plays in modern digital marketing and development, an ignorance that is unfortunately difficult to dissuade. Years ago, the search engine bots that crawled
Everything you need to know about what has happened in social media marketing this week Spotlight story: Twitter is becoming a tv channel Video continues to take over social media as the preferred mode of content. And live streaming has grown rapidly over the past year becoming a key part of many leading brands marketing strategies. Twitter
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Facebook has built a massive pool of bots that reside in their messenger app. These bots were trained to answer basic questions and perform basic commands based on text to dialogue recognition. While the bots held a lot of promise, it was obvious that they still had a lot to learn before they can fluently
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