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Is Failing Fast a Sign? Automating the Build of Voice Applications.

April 29, 2019

For the past 30 years, I’ve been fascinated by all the new ways to automate our lives. And in the last 10 years, many of those new ways have become commonplace. Doorbell cameras, watches that send health data to our…

Running Clothes Alexa Skill

March 20, 2019

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Alexa

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For the past three years, I’ve been building Alexa Skills for the Amazon Echo and other Alexa enabled devices.. Caroline Dunn, Liz Simpson and myself also formed Alexa Development Group (www.alexadevgroup.com) to build skills for companies helping them interact with…

Writing Requirement When Your Project Has Limited Time, Money and Resources

September 19, 2018

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Product Management, ProductCamp Atlanta

Business, Presentation, Product Management, Software, Technology

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Caroline Dunn and I were fortunate again to be chosen to present at ProductCamp Atlanta (2018). Our topic was “Writing Requirement When Your Project Has Limited Time, Money and Resources”. This presentation comes from the turmoil we’ve faced in the…

It’s Prime Day

July 16, 2018

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Amazon

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It’s shopping spree time at Amazon. Prime Day is today. Unfortunately, I don’t really need anything. And the things I want are expensive and only sold at list price. But, there are a few inexpensive things I fancy. Go look!…

Welcome to Lawn Advisor

March 18, 2018

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fertilizer, grass, herbicide, lawn

garden, grass, home, Home and Garden, lawn

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I just launched a new Alexa Skill called Lawn Advisor. It’s targeted at people in North America who use 9 different grasses in their lawns. These are: Bermuda (my grass) Fescue St. Augustine Centipede Rye Bluegrass Buffalo Bahia Zoysia Just…

Apple Watch – It’s Time

February 19, 2018

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apple, apple watch, watch

Apple, Uncategorized, Watches

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A year and a half ago, I had looked hard at the Apple Watch and found many reasons to say no. Take a look back at a post I published back in 2015: http://100.24.121.224/apple-watch-its-not-time-for-me/. First, it’s rectangular and I like round. …

Want Your Product to be Great? Go For a Walk in the Wild!

February 18, 2018

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digital, gifting, mobile, retail, software

Software

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Lately I’ve been working with a colleague, Mark Chambers, to help him launch his latest creation. BlinkSky is a digital gifting platform and app that enables instantaneous buying and delivery of digital gift cards. BlinkSky is a game changer. The current $680B…

Invited Back!

July 18, 2017

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alexa, amazon, echo

Technology

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Last fall, Caroline Dunn and I had the opportunity to present the world of “Alexa” to Dr. Benn Konsynski‘s Appcology class at Emory University. We showed first our homemade Raspberry Pi-based Echo. We then showed our first Skill. Well, we’re…

TidyHotel from RoomsDone

May 7, 2017

TidyHotel is Launched. A coupe of weeks ago, my latest software effort reached it’s first milestone. We (www.roomsdone.com) launched our first product, TidyHotel. TidyHotel is a mobile application that helps optimize the efforts of hotel housekeepers. I started researching this…

Snapchat Me

June 8, 2016