Messaging - Shane Mac

The Future of Social is Private

Hey friends, I'd love to hear your thoughts—hit reply and say hi! I've been thinking about this for a while: As social networks become algorithm networks, followers lose all their value, and group messaging becomes the new social graph, what changes? Why the Next Era

A New Era for Communication: Coinbase Wallet Launches with the XMTP Network

Anyone in the world can now send free global payments with a private and secure text message. This is just the beginning of individuals having more control, privacy, and ownership over their assets, identity, and now communication. I'm thrilled to announce that Coinbase Wallet is now part of

Dreaming About the Machine

Introducing Machine Yearning, our new podcast In a world where no one is the expert and where everyone, even if they don’t want to let on, is scrambling to figure it out — why not come clean and get real? That’s the point behind Machine Yearning, our new podcast.

There are a dozen ways to order a coffee. Why do dumb bots only allow one?

If bots are going to live up to their hype, we have to move beyond the fixed decision trees and pre-defined scripts. Last week, Mikhail Larionov [https://www.facebook.com/mikhail99] from Facebook, wrote a post [https://medium.com/@vernon99/messenger-bots-decision-trees-vs-webviews-64b36eb0905e#.v3tnihj53] about decision trees vs web views. He argues

Money from Messaging: The Impact of Brands In the Messaging Ecosystem

This post is the combination of ideas that can happen today and those that we would love to see happen tomorrow. We have developed a handful of foundational concepts that we believe can help any individual or business understand the potential of messaging. We hope you enjoy and please send

Discover and book the best hotels with just a text

We are on a mission to bring the best local services to every messaging platform. We are excited to announce our latest partnership with Olset [https://www.olset.com/], the world’s leading personalization engine for booking hotels. They power some of the largest travel sites in the world and

Introducing Resy on Assist

We are on a mission to bring the best services to every messaging platform. That’s why today we are excited to announce that we are featuring Resy reservations on Assist. Discover and book reservations without leaving your favorite messaging app. Resy has made one of the best reservation experiences

Introducing MessageRank

> We believe that messaging is the new browser and the way results are displayed will drastically change in this new world. If this is true, I’ll always remember what Greg Isenberg [https://twitter.com/gregisenberg] once told me: > In real estate, it’s all about location, location,

Introducing StubHub + Assist: Your best 3 tickets

We strive to make using services as simple as sending a text. A major piece of this is simplifying results to feel manageable and great inside messaging. We call this the “Top 3.” It’s our best search result for messaging. If Google thought the right amount of results was

Postmates + Assist = ❤

We are excited to announce that you can now hire a courier and get anything delivered in 100+ U.S. cities. The Postmates [http://postmates.com] API makes it possible to get anything delivered from point A to point B. Assist makes it as easy as sending a message on

Why bots and why now?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 years ago businesses were told to get a website. 10 years ago a Facebook page. 5 years ago an app (but apps are too expensive). The next phase of the Internet will be bots. Every business in the world will have a bot. It will allow any customer

Do we really need an entire app for that?

The reality of app overload. Apps dominated the last 5 years. “There’s an app for that” became a real thing. At some point though, downloading another app and re-entering the same preferences, became a nuisance and app discovery is a real problem. Apps are amazing for some things but

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