Running Clothes Alexa Skill
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…
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Writing Requirement When Your Project Has Limited Time, Money and Resources
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”. …
It’s Prime Day
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,…
Welcome to Lawn Advisor
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)…
Apple Watch – It’s Time
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…
Want Your Product to be Great? Go For a Walk in the Wild!
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…
Invited Back!
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…
TidyHotel from RoomsDone
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…
A Gift or a Lure? Or Both!!!
Recently published on the SPI blog: https://blog.spi.com/a-gift-or-a-lure-or-both/. I recently posted an article on SPI’s blog describing how Amazon’s Echo makes it drop dead simple to order products and services from Amazon. …
