I think he is more on the mark about streaming video than conversational commerce / bots. If you are a regular Facebook user, you can get an idea of where they are headed with the notifications that get greater priority and what is more likely to appear in your feed.<p>I have noticed greater visibility of Events and Live Video streaming. When a friend starts a live stream, I get a notification that shows up on my lock screen.<p>I'd put my money on Facebook going into video in a big way. Maybe they will be the one streaming sports games around the world.
Yes, you too can be the next startup to place your complete destiny in the hands of an organization that owns the walled garden you are sharecropping, that can watch your every monetizing success, copy it without penalty at any time of their choosing and then cut you out going forward.<p>You better have completed your "liquidity event" before that happens.
Unless I misunderstand, conversational commerce bots seem to want to solve the problem of the interface between users' natural language and software's logic (i.e., it's an application of NLP).<p>But I doubt AI will be good enough to do that, and I expect that I'll still have to think about fitting my words to the software's understanding. Why would these bots work better than Siri?
I think more than conversational commerce the true power of BOTs will be conversational planning assistance within chat. Imagine a personal assistant always available in your chats with friends that can help you plan dinners by finding restaurants everyone would like, making reservations, booking movie tickets, putting the event on everyone's calendars, sending reminders, giving directions to locations when you leave for the event, etc. now that's powerful and useful.
if u have an hour, watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABT6GdygnI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABT6GdygnI</a> and listen for the distribution strategy part. This is a wide open one.
But if you want to cash in on this you need to create compelling content more than be a hacker. The top Snapchat Stories are not there because of hacking.
There's a lot of cool bots I can come up with but I none that I think you'd be able to monetize. For example, if I'm in a group chatting away, it'd be cool to have a bot collect certain posts that I can reference later instead of having to scroll/search. Or, I can ask the bot to live blog a certain event (or if there's video show a certain event) and we can live discuss.
"Conversational commerce" has a critical problem: in whose interests is the bot operating?<p>Is it an unbiased-as-possible purchase agent working on your behalf, or it is a salesman on commission? Will it route you to the best option or the one that makes the most money for its owners? How do you know?<p>Currently the nearest thing I do to conversational commerce is Skyscanner and Digikey-style selective refinement.
I'm not a Facebook user. I like to think I'm still well-informed as a professional in the industry - i.e., I understand this major platform - because I know what social networking is about and how Facebook works on a technical level. Am I wrong? What don't I understsand by not being a user?
Doubtful, because NLP is not yet at the point where it can help users faster than a normal website. If that was the case, google would be there already.
It was posted couple days ago, that people are sharing less and less private things from their lives on Facebook.<p>So now they'll start live streaming it instead ?