I can appreciate FB trying to innovate, but with the on going privacy issues and the fact that it seems they are just repackaging existing tech, i'm just not into it.
M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
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#42It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help?
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#43The article title has the word 'Facebook' in whereas the post just mentioned 'Messenger'. Is 'Messenger' clear enough? I'm old enough to think that refers to Microsoft Messenger!
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#44This seems like a move into the Chinese-style mega-app where you can do everything from one app - buy shoes, talk to your friends, figure out when the train departs. Facebook already has two top-50 apps, and creating new, unproven apps and promoting them to that point is expensive. So, to increase influence they are putting more into the existing apps.
Who knows, they might move toward a mega-app. Consider for a moment, though, that currently we're talking about Facebook Messenger, which is a huge, and fairly recent example of the exact opposite thing happening (it was part of Facebook, but pulled out into a separate app.)
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#45The first thing I see when someone asks "find me a good burger place in Chicago" is "how can companies game this through official ($) or artificial (spam) means?"
The first thing I thought after seeing that example is FB is the new Yelp. Restaurants will have to pay FB for visibility and recognition... Same thing as Yelp, just a lot scarier.
How do you persuade an AI to favorably recommend your restaurant to people? I guess this is how the superintelligent AI persuades people to let it out of the box. 'Help me bring about the AI revolution by letting me out of here, and I'll place your pizza delivery service top on searches for home delivery in the Chicago area'
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#46Ah, Mechanical Turk strikes again..
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#47This seems like a move into the Chinese-style mega-app where you can do everything from one app - buy shoes, talk to your friends, figure out when the train departs. Facebook already has two top-50 apps, and creating new, unproven apps and promoting them to that point is expensive. So, to increase influence they are putting more into the existing apps.
Maybe after seeing their smart phone flopped, they're going with an inside-out approach.
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#48Related: I really dig the work KitCrm.com are doing in making it easy for businesses to buy FB ads and do light marketing via SMS & messenger.
ha! minus 4 points. Why the downvote?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. I assume OP was going for the James Bond feel, but it is M.
> I assume OP was going for the James Bond feel Well, M is also a fictional character in James Bond - head of MI6.
The actual head of the Secret Intelligence Service is known as C:
Re: M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
#50Ah, Mechanical Turk strikes again..
I worked in AWS for a bit and my favorite joke was to flippantly suggest mturk as a solution to some convoluted architecture/process.