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Listen to Google — UX and SEO are a match made in heaven

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by on July 14, 2018 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, Marketing and SEO


To the layman UX and SEO (if they even understand what they mean) sound like two entirely unrelated things. The one is about some plumber jabbing away at their phone, while the other is about satisfying the algorithms of a company in Silicon Valley. But we know better. At its core they’re down to the same thing. That’s because the layman doesn’t realize that what Google cares about is ultimately what will satisfy that plumber. And though initially the algorithms they used to get us there weren’t very good at that (and were easily gamed) as time goes on they’re…

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3 things your startup should consider outsourcing

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by on July 14, 2018 at 10:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Entrepreneur


In the competitive world of startups, founders should focus on core business operations without distractions. But at the initial stages of business expansion, funds, and staff are limited. It’s the problem that drives most startup owners to wear too many hats and try to do it all as a way of saving money and time. As a startup founder, you must be careful. Taking on too many tasks can sacrifice quality and accuracy. Alternatively, when entrepreneurs outsource, they’re connecting their startup with expert teams that have the knowledge and skill sets for handling a variety of tasks while avoiding errors.…

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The $24 billion chatbot industry sucks because it needs better AI

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by on July 14, 2018 at 8:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Opinion


In 2014, WIRED would profile a “boring” company called Slack beginning a media and venture-based obsession with bringing chat to every corner of our work lives. Somewhere along the way, the growth of chat-based enterprise communication was conflated with a preference for doing everything in a chat window, and thus we were given chatbots. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella would go on to call them “the new interface,” and by 2017 over $24 billion in funding had gone into chatbot companies. A year later, and the landscape of chatbot funding is desolate. And it’s because they were never truly built to…

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The $24 billion chatbot industry sucks because it needs better AI

Jul14
by on July 14, 2018 at 8:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Opinion


In 2014, WIRED would profile a “boring” company called Slack beginning a media and venture-based obsession with bringing chat to every corner of our work lives. Somewhere along the way, the growth of chat-based enterprise communication was conflated with a preference for doing everything in a chat window, and thus we were given chatbots. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella would go on to call them “the new interface,” and by 2017 over $24 billion in funding had gone into chatbot companies. A year later, and the landscape of chatbot funding is desolate. And it’s because they were never truly built to…

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