I’m looking forward to this foray into a new field and a new organization. I have my friend and colleague Joram Borenstein to thank for helping me realize that much of the work I’ve done at StopBadware over the past few years has been product marketing, even if I didn’t have a name for it. I’ll be joining Sophos’s marketing team as a Senior Product Marketing Manager, specializing in endpoint security. They also have one of the most prolific and entertaining blogs in the industry. Sophos was one of the first companies to join StopBadware’s partner program when it launched in 2011, and I’ve had impressively positive interactions with the people there ever since. The company, dual headquartered in Abingdon, UK, and Burlington, MA, creates some of the best network and endpoint security products for small and medium enterprises. I’m very excited to announce that, in two weeks, I will be joining the team at Sophos. When I need a search engine, I’ll talk to Google. I know what Alexa can do, and I know she’ll do it when I ask. It just drops the conversation.Īnd, as it turns out, that’s what I want in a voice-activated assistant. If I say “Alexa… never mind,” it doesn’t mind. My Echo may not know the phone number of the local CVS, but when I say “pause,” there’s no ambiguity-paws have no place in its syntax. In contrast, Amazon’s Alexa has a large but limited vocabulary.
Even if the response is unrelated to what you need. You can say anything to it, and it will respond. No, the problem with Assistant isn’t its lack of capabilities, but its lack of constraints. If I want to know how tall Angelina Jolie is (5’7″) or how long it will take me to get to my parents’ house (23 minutes), Assistant is ideal. I love being able to set time or place based reminders. The versatility of Google Assistant has its perks. More than once, I’ve said “never mind” after inadvertently invoking the Assistant with the wake phrase, only to be told that “Nevermind” was an album by Nirvana.ĭon’t misunderstand me (even if my phone does). This isn’t the only time Assistant has failed to catch my intent. Instead, Google Assistant offered me the top search result: PAWS, an animal advocacy organization. “OK Google,” I said to my Pixel phone, “pause.” Now if I can just learn to resist the urge to check Twitter and Facebook 279 times per day…
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