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Google IO

• Allo/Duo


• Google Now

Voice

• Looking forward to push notifications


• And proximity based alerts

Conversational investment

Conversational Economy

• Sarah Guo: https://news.greylock.com/the-conversational-economy-whats-causing-the-bot-craze-4dd8f1b44ba1#.d42aqnsa8


• Maps + Allo


• Inbound services


• Location-based/contextual advertising


• Google v. Apple in this space

Bots

• Commerce


• Customer service


• Mix of bot and human


• Testing


• Eventually personalization


• Shopify-Messenger integration


• Speech recognition ideas


• Watson/Predix and IOT

Google Home

• Nest v. Home


• Home v. Alexa


• There Will Come Soft Rains - Ray Bradbury

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