![]() Use Drop In from your app to connect instantly with your compatible Echo devices, like a two-way intercom.View and edit shopping and to-do lists on the go, get weather and news updates, manage timers and alarms, and more.Create speaker groups to play music across your compatible Echo devices for multi-room music.Choose a song or playlist and listen on your Alexa-enabled devices Connect to music services like Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio.Create routines to automate your smart home devices.Set up your Alexa-enabled devices, control or check status of your compatible smart lights, locks and thermostats at home or on the go.Pick up where you left off directly from the home feed with lists, shopping, or recently played Music and Books.Discover and enable recommended Alexa skills.Get more out of your Echo device through personalized feature recommendations from Alexa.The more you use Alexa, the more she adapts to your voice, vocabulary and personal preferences. When you enable hands-free with Alexa, you can talk to Alexa by simply saying “Alexa” when the app is on your screen. The standard social media business model is all about attracting, directing and retaining our attention within a proprietary online environment whose purpose is to sell digital advertising.Use the Amazon Alexa app to manage Alexa-enabled devices, control music playback, view shopping lists on the go, keep track of upcoming reminders, check on active timers and much more. However, as the AI that powers digital assistants continues to improve, a more disruptive scenario presents itself. For the moment, they can be viewed as extentions of established Silicon Valley business models. Furthermore, these aren’t services that generate their own revenue streams (other than the sale of speaker units). Admittedly, this is yet another area that the tech giants currently control. The other one that Zuckerman mentions, is the market for services such as Uber and AirBnB – which are about applying internet technology to “monetise the physical world”.Ī third domain that Zuckerman doesn’t mention is the digital assistant – e.g. Tellingly, however, it’s been concentrated in domains beyond the digital advertising oligopoly. One of these is China – where market barriers place Google and Facebook on the outside. ![]() He’s not arguing that there’s been no internet-related innovation over the last decade. Or essentially try to buy that audience through Facebook or Google.” But it’s very difficult to build an audience for it unless you are essentially willing to pay quite a bit of money to an existing partner. And in many ways, it’s still pretty easy to program something new. “You used to be able to do something novel online for a modest amount of money. Zuckerman pins the blame on market incumbency: Any upgrades on ‘web 2.0’ are after, not before, the decimal point. Of course, thanks to the smartphone (and the spread of halfway decent wi-fi) the internet has gone fully mobile over the last decade – but it’s still basically the same internet, only on a smaller screen. Compared with the enormous leaps of the previous two decades, the most recent decade has been one of consolidation – and, some might say, stagnation. Recommended reading Alexa, how do we disrupt the tech lords?īut that’s the problem: the internet in 2018 is really not that different from the internet in 2008. Google and Facebook were also achieving default status – indeed the internet as we know it today was pretty much all there already. Fast forward another ten years to 2008 and broadband had become the norm. In 1988, most of us hadn’t even heard of the internet, but by 1998, email was widespread and websites commonplace (even if we were still using dial-up modems to access them). Think about the development of internet in decade-long chunks. I feel like this last decade has been pretty boring for the web.” “I really feel like we’ve lost about ten years of innovation. ![]() The new tech lords have yet to capture the web in its entirety, but Zuckerman believes that their dominance comes at a terrible cost: ![]() “In many ways, that’s now what we’re all dealing with on our phones, you know? My Facebook app won’t let me look at Twitter, and it won’t let me look at Mastodon, and it won’t let me look at anything else.” They finally had to open up, otherwise they would die. Well, that’s what we had more or less in the days of AOL and CompuServe. “…imagine that you had a web browser that could only look at Facebook.
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