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Our First iTunes Update
You can now use Siri with your iPod Touch! Great news, we’ve just launched our first update to Siri. We moved as quickly as we could to improve Siri and support your top three requests. You can now:
1. Use Siri on the iPod Touch.
2. Clear recent searches.
3.Register with Siri more easily. We’ve improve our registration flow so that it should be seamless to sign-up for Siri.
In addition, we’ve expanded Siri’s vocabulary and fixed a few bugs that people reported. Please keep the suggestions coming. With the feedback you're providing, Siri is learning new things every day!read more
Our Most Excellent Collaborators
Now that we have officially launched Siri, we want to take a moment to formally thank the web services companies who have been important contributors to our overall development.
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Great suggestions. Thank you !
First, allow me to share, we’re humbled by the positive response we’ve gotten from people over the past few days since we’ve launched. Thank you! What’s most exciting is hearing first-hand what works, what Siri needs to improve, and what people want Siri to do in the future.
Here's a few of the top requests and what we are doing about them....
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Delegated Computing and the Future of the Web
Robert Scoble has written an insightful new post called Why if you miss Siri you’ll miss the future of the Web. I'm biased, of course, but I find the topic important, and I am enjoying the ensuing discussion in the comments enough to respond in this blog entry.
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There’s No Such Thing as a Free Launch
After years in development, Siri is officially live as of this evening. Here's some of the behind the scenes stats of what it took to build Siri.
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Siri is Born
Today, the Siri Personal Assistant is available for the first time as a download in the Apple iTunes Store, for iPhone 3GS.
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The Birth of the Virtual Assistant
In the near future, anyone who lives a connected lifestyle will be able to delegate their everyday tasks to intelligent virtual assistants that will coordinate, execute and simplify users’ lives. We will look back on these days and ask ourselves how we ever got by without our trusted assistants, the same way my kids ask in amazement about how we ever got things done before laptops and the Internet.
For a long time, Hollywood has been portraying machines that humans can converse with, delegate tasks to, and command. Remember the HAL 9000, KITT the car, COMPUTER from Star Trek, or even the brilliantly conceived and visualized Apple "Knowledge Navigator" from over 20 years ago?
They have symbolized our desire for trusted machine assistants that can help make our lives easier. They have persisted in the creative works of science fiction writers for decades. But have you ever asked yourself why that is? Looking beyond the theatrical and dramatic value of these ideas, the reality is simple — we have always desired more help, less hassle, and higher productivity in our lives.
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Tom to give keynote at Web 3.0 next week
It’s been a while since our last post on this blog – we’ve been heads-down working hard for the past few months. We look forward to sharing what we’ve been working on; 2010 should be very exciting! We also wanted to let you know about Tom’s upcoming keynote at the Web 3.0 Conference in Santa Clara next week. It is titled “Big Think, Small Screen: How semantic computing in the cloud will revolutionize the consumer experience on the phone” and it will be a moderated Q&A. You can find the program and session details here.
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2010 South by Southwest PanelPicker goes live
South By Southwest today launched the 2010 Interactive PanelPicker. Users get a 30% say in what panels will be selected (there’s over 2K+ proposed topics this year). We submitted two panels. If you like our proposed topics, we’d appreciate if you’d vote for our panels so they will become part of SWSXi this year.
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Partnering with True Knowledge
We are excited to announce that we are partnering with True Knowledge, an answer engine which uses natural language to understand and answer questions. This is the first of many partnerships that we’ll announce over the coming weeks and months. The collaboration is a great fit for both of us. True Knowledge offers the leading semantic answer engine, and as a result, Siri gets a lot smarter. In return, True Knowledge will be a big part of our rollout this year, and we’ll be introducing their service to millions of new users.
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