Perficient Digital released the latest version of its now annual Digital Personal Assistants accuracy study. It compared responses to roughly 5,000 queries on seven devices including Amazon’s Alexa (Echo and Echo Show), Microsoft’s Cortana, Google Assistant (Home, smartphones), and Siri. More answers, less accuracy. At the highest level, Google Assistant performed the best, but Cortana […]
There’s something enchanting about the soft glow of a properly diffused LED, and this is only improved by greater numbers of LEDs. [Manoj Nathwani] was well aware of this, setting out to build a large display using ping-pong balls for their desirable optical qualities.Unfortunately, not everything went to plan, but sometimes that’s not all bad.
9GAG proves that fun is a global language Transforming a little idea into an international platform that entertains millions of global netizens, 9GAG – founded by Hong Kong young people – encourages peers to be bold and walk their own ways. One evening in 2008, five young friends studying at three universities in Hong Kong
For five years, Salesforce (CRM) has relied on the combination of co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff, and Chief Operating Officer Keith Block, who was recently promoted to co-CEO. They’ve built the business into a $10 billion enterprise, and it appears they’re well on their way to $13 billion in fiscal 2019 revenue — as Benioff had predicted —
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Facing growing scrutiny of its business practices and associated negative headlines, Amazon last year launched a program called FC Ambassadors. The concept: have rank-and-file employees tweet in defense of the company, particularly its warehouse working conditions, compensation and benefits. At the time, I called FC Ambassadors “bad social media strategy” and wrote: “…the problem is
Customer experience has been on a tear, with business owners and executives reporting in multiple studies that it’s a top priority. In fact, research from our friends at Walker suggests that by 2020, customer experience will overtake price as the most important criteria among B2B buyers. By 2020, customer experience will overtake price as the
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Ford Motor Company released a video of its F-150 All-Electric Truck prototype to allay any fears from truck owners that the electric version would be the weak sister in the F-150 family. The company gathered a few F-150 owners to show off how powerful the electric version will be. They attached 1,000-foot freight train to
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Valentin Pletzer didn’t want to just take Google’s word that the new evergreen GoogleBot is live, so he tested it. In short, Google’s word was the truth and the new GoogleBot is indeed live. He basically replicated what DeepCrawl saw when Google was testing the new Googlebot back in April. He said he used the
Artist Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) used iOS Airdrop at Coachella to surprise random festival-goers with a photo of shoes he created in collaboration with Adidas. Those who accepted the Airdrop received a free pair of the sneakers – with terms and conditions, of course. The lucky recipients had to sign a contract stating they
Proving the effectiveness of content marketing can seem daunting. But if you can’t prove your worth to the c-suite, why would they keep investing in you and content marketing? To prove your value to the c-suite, you need an easy, repeatable method for measuring how well your content marketing campaigns are performing, how they tie
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