Alexa Answers & Google Investigation

During episode 280, co-hosts BL Ochman & David Erickson discuss:

  • Amazon's crowdsourcing of responses to Alexa users' questions
  • Google's Recover Together website of resources for addicts
  • Twitter's new arrangeable photos feature
  • Google's 'original reporting' algorithm designed to give more visibility to primary source, trustworthy journalism
  • WordPress' purchase of Tumblr
  • The Zooniverse crowdsourcing network supporting science experiments
  • An example of a great follow-up PR pitch
  • The Attorneys General investigating Google
  • Ledo Pizza's ill-advised 9/11 tweet

Plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

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