Ted Livingston
medium.com/@tedlivingston · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Ted Livingston, CEO of messaging app Kik, writes about chat platforms, bots, WeChat, and Kik's shutdown and move to Kin.
What HN saysHN links it for his announcement of Kik's shutdown and Kin, and commenters call his essay on the future of chat a good narrative.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Moving Forward Boldly with Kin [Kik Shutting Down]6 people · 38 points · first shared 2019 · 5 comments on HN
- 2The Future of Chat Isn’t AI: Instant Interaction Is Key3 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3The race to become the WeChat of the West2 people · 35 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Bots Are Better Without Conversation2 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 5Chat is the new browser1 people · 7 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Why Kik Took $50M from China’s Largest Internet Company1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 7'Facebook Isn’t Going After Bitcoin. It’s Going After the Dollar'1 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 8200M Users1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9Hashtags as Social Networks1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Deimorz · 2019-09-25
This is just Forbes blogspam of the original blog post: https://medium.com/@tedlivingston/moving-forward-boldly-with-kin-ec629…
It was submitted to HN here, and I noted that it would be unlikely to get attention because of its title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21055034
HN's strict title rules encourage submitting blogspam that writes sensationalized titles like this (and it's even been dialed back now).
kevando · 2016-04-05
Kik CEO actually has a pretty good narrative on this
https://medium.com/@tedlivingston/the-future-of-chat-isn-t-ai-b07f65bc…
udfalkso · 2016-03-08
There's definitely something in the air...
Shall we call it session-based search perhaps?
https://medium.com/@tedlivingston/the-future-of-chat-isn-t-ai-b07f65bc…
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/1/11136298/hound-app-ios-android-siri-g…
https://developer.amazon.com/appsandservices/solutions/alexa/alexa-ski…