NEWS
AH Tech Talk: Chat Bots Set To Supersede Apps | Androidheadlines.com
Love Love Love. That's what Alexa Skills are garnering, gathering and gaining. Great!
Amazon расширяет возможности облачного сервиса Alexa Voice Service
Russian language sites now even cover Alexa. Glasnost comrade!
Amazon Echo Teardown - iFixit
What is in that tube? iFixIt shows you. There's also a tear down of Tap and Dot.
The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo
This article was fascinating. Utterly fascinating. I won't share any spoilers.
Apps Economy 2.0: Bots Define The Next Era Of Interface - ARC
Good to be involved in where things are going.
SKILLS
There were 667 skills live in alexa.amazon.com at 11:00 PM EDT, Thursday, April 21.
56 more than last week. +9%
On Oct 16, 2015, there were 21 skills.
CODE
Bringing Pug Bombs to Alexa - Java
I love pugs and I love Alexa. So naturally I had to share this.
This skill is live - desktop only link.
Thanks @TheBrickMatt.
An Alexa skill for the Amazon Echo. It reads Kanye's tweets. - JavaScript
Why didn't I think of this!!
Thanks @cameronhunter.
Citibike Amazon Echo skill - JavaScript
Alexa skill to find a bicycle in NYC. http://www.citibikenyc.com/
Thanks @kpeltzer.
CONTROL THIS
Google Now turns Siri on after being prodded by Alexa in virtual threesome | The Guardian
Fun stuff.
COMMENT
Welcome to Issue #31. Echo and Tap were on sale (15% off) for one day this week. Apparently they sold a lot of them because the Echo is now out of stock until May 14. That's over three weeks. This must delight and frustrate the production planners at the same time.
Drop me a note if you find or create any great resources for ASK/AVS Developers.
Mark Carpenter