This week the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developer Unwriter has released the second iteration of Bitdb, a global NoSQL database backed by BCH and implemented with Mongo-DB. Unwriter’s latest Bitdb 2.0 allows the protocol to continuously synchronize itself with not only …
We were warned that robots would take our jobs. Now that the future is here, the reality is more mundane, but no less terrifying: the bots are here to take our tokens. Automated bots are swamping ICO groups on Telegram …
At SXSW, one will inevitably come across things that are … weird.
Afterall, the host of this annual interactive, music, and film festival is Austin, Texas: a city with a motto of, “Keep Austin weird.”
So when I got word …
They say you learn more through failure than success. After building bots for a few years, I’d say I definitely agree.
While I’ve had a head start, I know many businesses are thinking about bots for the first time.
That’s …
As of late, it feels like an arms race between email marketing or Messenger marketing. A world where marketers have to pick: the workhorse of today or the most exciting channel of tomorrow?
At first glance, I can see why. …
A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Multifamily Social Media Summit in Napa, CA. It was my second consecutive year attending the event, and I wanted to give the audience something fresh — my talk was going …
Doesn’t it feel like most people are falling a little too much in love with automation just because it’s faster and easier?
Sure, automation can save you time and mitigate the grind associated with repetitive tasks. But does it produce …
In case you haven’t already heard, bots are the new black.
Seriously. The new strategy of providing 1:1, instantaneous assistance to users and customers is proving successful for brands across industries.
And although we’ve rounded up AI and bot …
Last week, while I was using a website’s chat feature to get some much-needed customer service, I realized something shocking:
I couldn’t tell if I was chatting with a human or a bot.
Before 2017, my notion of bots — …
If you’re a human with internet access in 2017, you’ve probably talked to a bot recently — even if you weren’t fully aware of it.
With over five billion monthly active users on messaging platforms like Facebook Messenger and …
Automation is a funny thing. Too little is the enemy of efficiency. Too much kills engagement.
Think about email. Automated email nurturing campaigns were the answer to individually following up with every single person who downloaded a piece of content …
Nothing will impact the way we communicate quite like chatbots.
Whether you need to summon a Lyft, book a flight, or even test out a new shade of lipstick, it’s now safe to say, “There’s an bot for that.”
By …
In April 2016, something happened at Facebook that would quickly result in a revolutionary paradigm shift on the horizon of online communication — from mobile to desktop, marketing to services, personal to corporate — everything, really.
Messenger opened its doors …
