Chris Messina on conversational commerce
The 2017 bot outlook with one of the field’s early adopters
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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
My first podcast interview of 2017! Fittingly we discuss MessinaBot and personal bots, "bot skeuomorphism", the role of Product Hunt in the bot ecosystem, and a bunch of other topics!
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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
My first podcast interview of 2017! Fittingly we discuss MessinaBot and personal bots, "bot skeuomorphism", the role of Product Hunt in the bot ecosystem, and a bunch of other topics!
Show notes
• Traditional résumés provide the same comprehensive overview regardless of who’s reading; MessinaBot customizes the experience of learning about me, and draws … See more
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Jon Bruner
@jonbruner · AI & Bots Director at O'Reilly Media
It was great to talk with Chris on the podcast. I've been thinking a lot about "bot skeuomorphism"—Pete's term for features that are just directly borrowed from web or mobile apps and stuffed into bots. That's the central point of our conversation in this episode: developers are just now coming up with models that are truly native to the bot medium, and thos… See more