There’s a surge of excitement around messaging as a new platform and the idea of ‘Conversational Commerce’. There are a number of great pieces and podcasts that have been published documenting and forecasting the new ways we will see messaging used in 2016. I recommend reading them all. What I would like to add to the conversation is the why, how, and who will get us there. This is my snapshot of why messaging is so interesting and a map to help understand the stack. There is a lot to cover, so this is broken up into three sections…
M won’t be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger. Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK that allows them to build interactive experiences and…
Source: Facebook’s Secret Chat SDK Lets Developers Build Messenger Bots | TechCrunch
If Facebook’s David Marcus can get every business on to Messenger, who will need Google or Apple?
Source: Facebook Messenger: inside Mark Zuckerberg’s app for everything (Wired UK)