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2016 will be the year of conversational commerce

Nearly a year ago today, I wrote a post inventorying the forebears to what I believe has become the dominant trend of consumer computing…

Chris MessinaJan 19

Conversational commerce

When the point of sale comes to the messaging channel

Chris MessinaJan 15, 2015

Sorry to burst your [chat] bubble

Conversational commerce isn’t merely about texting bots 💬

Chris MessinaApr 4

Today is my first day at Uber

January tends to be a moment for new starts and that’s historically been true for me, since I joined Google nearly exactly six years ago…

Chris MessinaJan 4

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Chris Messina3 days ago7 min read

More than seeing clearly

I’m just going to come out and tell you ahead of time: this is a sponsored post. I’m not ashamed of that; it’s…

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Chris Messina4 days ago2 min read

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I love that Path is sharing the results of some of their internal hackathons. Their latest “short” is called “With”, a free iPhone app that integrates…

Chris Messina4 days ago5 min read

We are all made of #hashtags

This past week we (Google) launched an updated design for Google profiles. Aside from a visual refresh, we…

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Chris Messina4 days ago1 min read

How to make a Golden Manhattan

I friggin’ love Manhattans. FWIW, I think I make a pretty mean one myself, but recently I came up with a…

Chris Messina4 days ago3 min read

Instagram: the camera app the iPhone should have shipped with

In talking to fellow Googler Brian Slesinsky about Instagram, it occurred to me that its crazy success so far is due to the fact that it’s really the photo app that the iPhone should have shipped with iOS! No really — bear…

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Chris Messina4 days ago2 min read

Facebook Messages and continuous partial conversations

Update: MG Siegler (TechCrunch) has a post along similar lines, asking for a “Gmail Lite”.

Charlene Li has some insightful analysis of Facebook Messages, Facebook’s new communication platform:

Chris Messina4 days ago6 min read

Where should the OpenID Foundation go in 2011?

In December of 2008, I ran for and was elected to a two-year term as a community representative on the board of the OpenID Foundation. That two year term expires this month. By the end the day today (November 29, 2010), I must decide whether I want…

Chris Messina4 days ago7 min read

2011 themeword: #fitness

For the last four years, I’ve kicked off the year with a themeword — some word that helps me to focus on some kind of change or result I want to achieve over the next 365 years. This year I’ve chosen “fitness”.

Chris Messina4 days ago3 min read

Three decades on

As of last Friday, I kissed my 20s behind and turned 30. I also completed my first year at Google.

2010 was an interesting year, and seems to mark the end a long run-on sentence with a big, smudgy period:

Chris Messina4 days ago1 min read

And then there was the Mac App Store

Overheard in a coffee shop:

“Hey, so did you know that there’s now an App Store for your computer?”

“Huh?”

“Yeah, you know, like the one on your iPhone.”

Chris Messina4 days ago1 min read

The power of a preposition

I’ve noticed that a few networks are starting to elicit otherwise implicit relationship data to build out the edges of their social graph. Specifically, Facebook, Yammer, and Path all now ask you with whom you work, hang out, and do things: