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When you have hard problems with unclear optimal solutions, taking this approach of a public show & tell will often (always?) solicit lots of interesting ideas the team may have not yet considered :)
Any similar AI based services/agents that can take images/creative assets (eg Figma, Sketch, Adobe PS, etc files) and create production-ready emails and landing pages in HTML?
Never having worked for a company in a position like OpenAI, how does this manifest in the real world as actual comp?
Like I get 50,000 shares deposited in to my Fidelity account, worth $2 each, but i can't sell them or do anything with them?
I feel like the AI industry is basically recreating "workflow engines" again and again and again, in different forms, with different input mechanisms.
This is a killer use case guys - excited to try it out over the next couple weeks!
"Negotiate with the service provider/insurance co/cable company/etc" as a service is going to be massive.
Siri is literally a joke!
My son (he's 11 years old now and fairly skilled with all the main AI tools, eg chatgpt, gemini, etc) and I retry her every month or so, and this past time we just laughed. Can't handle basic questions - hears the question wrong, starts, stops, takes us to some random ass webpage, etc, etc.
"She's so jacked up!" he said.
Apple needs to get this under control and figured out, stat!
What's left to conquer in email land?
Most of the large marketing ecommerce/enterprise market was captured via ExactTarget/Salesforce, Oracle/Responsys/Eloqua, IBM/SilverPop/Acoustic, Adobe/Neolane/Marketo by the mid 2010's.
SendGrid/Twilio was another a few years later, Amazon SES is ok, then you have some of the smaller market players (MailChimp, Constant Contact, etc).
Hard to scale/grow a startup in any real way when there are so many fairly well entrenched solutions across industries and company sizes.
What is the timeline/next steps to make this a usable therapy in humans?
Not familiar with state of the art techniques in this realm currently.
Best way to get free tickets is to ask the sponsoring vendors/companies directly I've found - can play either the 'I'm a current customer' card, or the 'I'm considering your solution seriously' card.
Have gotten many free tickets, dinners, sports tix, etc that way over the years!
Most folks know this is easily defeated typically by viewing the content on another device (eg via casting it, remote desktop, phone mirroring, etc) or viewing it from within a VM, and then using the native screen capture functionality on the viewing device to record/screenshot whatever you need.
That being said - guessing they are doing this for their enterprise customers mainly, where alot of those other options are locked down. But plenty of people already know to just record their screen from their phone anyway - impossible to block that and much safer way to exfiltrate whatever info/data you need.
Learn about limit and stop loss orders, come in handy in times of high volatility I am finding :)
We live in a mid sized city in the midwest, typical city block with single family homes. Folks keep to themselves a bit - not everyone, but enough that you have to make an effort to connect with neighbors.
My son and I had the idea that we should just organize a block party. I think this was in early 2021 after covid was letting up a bit. He was 7 years old and said we should get a food truck to come.
So that's what we did. Made homemade invitations and handed them out to a couple blocks around us and sent out emails to friends.
I think we had like 75 people show up to the first one! It was great. Had a taco truck come, and the local fire station rolled the engine by for the kids.
Blocked off the street so everyone could sit together and the kids could run around without worrying about traffic.
We've been trying to do this every 6 months or so since then. Great way to meet tons of folks in the immediate vicinity and strike up some new friendships - highly recommend it.
They are a consulting company that tries to do some element of product development in house. This is not a new strategy - all the big consultancies, agencies, etc have been on various forms of the path for the last 15-20 years.
The reality is there is sometimes a space for custom product dev, and sometimes better to rely on actual software/product providers that already have scale, market understanding, etc.
For anyone that's been in corp/BigCo land for some time, this is the typical corp reboot playbook.
Pause all hiring, freeze travel and other casual expenditures, relook at all major initiatives/projects/programs, etc.
Definitely something (IMHO) worth doing every 5-7 years in any environment. Can't imagine what it will uncover in government where I'm guessing it hasn't happened in much longer in most cases.
Been in BigCo land for 20 years now, and have seen the rise and fall of quite a few AI/ML/RPA etc fads.
Honestly the whole landscape seems broken and unproductive at this point.
Countless vendors, platforms, cloud environments, industry/technical jargon - all with different pricing models, SLAs, tooling, etc etc.
Getting anything usable is a challenge and most orgs spin in a never ending cycle of data integration/normalization work that produces little business value.
My advice to teams now is simplify, reduce, streamline - get to the kernel of what you think you need and protect it all costs. Most of the shiny new objects being pitched as silver bullets are just ways for other people to make money off your margin.
Always hear my audiophile friends talking about this company/product:
Been in BigCo land for 20 years now, and have seen the rise and fall of quite a few data/analytics/BI/reporting/AI/ML fads.
Honestly the whole landscape seems broken and unproductive at this point.
Countless vendors, platforms, cloud environments, industry/technical jargon - all with different pricing models, SLAs, tooling, etc etc.
Getting anything usable is a challenge and most orgs spin in a never ending cycle of data integration/normalization work that produces little business value.
My advice to teams now is simplify, reduce, streamline - get to the kernel of what you think you need and protect it all costs. Most of the shiny new objects being pitched as silver bullets are just ways for other people to make money off your margin.
Last update was 4 days ago! (11/24)
Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control.
It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago.
A big driver of the right tool is your overall send volume and customer record count. Both of these will also influence pricing.
Even for smaller shops, would recommend checking out some of the big players (eg Adobe, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Eloqua, Twilio, etc) as they have entry level lower tiers that may end up costing less over time than some of these startup focused solutions (which all seem to nickel and dime you and hit you up with various types of overage charges), and will get you much higher deliverability, automation, and integration capabilities.
Guess they should have live streamed it on X to be safe!
;)
Guess they should have livestreamed it on X to be safe!
This is why I grabbed the following email address early on:
BySendingMeAnEmailYouAgreeToRemoveAllTosEULAandArbitrationClauses@gmail.com
:)
“Boo, Forever", also by Richard Brautigan
Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I'm haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.
The whole youtube/streaming/advertiser/influencer/product pusher ecosystem is complete shit for kids and, to a degree, adults.
We have a 10 year old son and best approach we have found is VLC on his ipad and family TV, coupled to a NAS that we drop the content on to (downloaded/ripped shows that contain no ads).
Anyone know if Eloqua is included in this spin down?
One of my core memories was standing in an elevator in college, deep in to my second or third LSD trip.
My friend handed me a tin of Japanese green tea, which I opened slowly and then inhaled very intentionally.
It instantly transported me back to being 14 and in Japan for the first time. Will always remember that feeling of smells blending with nostalgia, adventure and discovery. :)
My guess is the opt out (versus opt in) nature of this could be the seed of a massive class action lawsuit should the right folks get involved :)
I see these types of complaints all the time now it seems on social media, NextDoor, etc.
Everyone thinks everything is dying when their favorite whatever closes down or changes something.
Such is progress - there are plenty of "third places" - both commercial and non-commercial. And those places may shut down! And new ones will open up!
Many (most?) software supply chain attacks that I have observed in the wild over the last 10 years started with compromised user level credentials, or bad actors with (at the time) legit access.
My current thinking is there are too many ways in to protect yourself with 100% security, so better to spend time figuring out how to reduce the blast radius, and what your recovery protocol will be when you get hit.