All in all and impressive application for sure.

Generally, I use Google or indeed WeCanDo.Biz to find stuff via my Blackberry if I am out and about and even then being highly aware that my replies will be limited to those who have bothered to create some kind of web footprint or those who are SEO-fiends whose purpose in life is high Google rankings. Either way, I will always miss out on something. There is a sound argument here for those who are not so web-savvy to get themselves noticed or face never being found but that is still an evolutionary step for many small businesses. It is no real surprise that many in the SME space STILL have no web-presence, apart from maybe the odd directory listing and consequently get overlooked. Tools such as Siri and others will drive a (relatively) small number of passionate users to a (relatively) small number of suppliers. No issue there BUT if I were funding Siri or any similar application, my question would be, ‘So I monetize this via the mass-market exactly how?’

Being a passionate believer in evolution, this will either evolve or die, find its niche and dominate or slowly shuffle off its mortal coil. I certainly hope that there is a place for this kind of emergent technology but when all is said and done, to me, it seems like a stepping stone to something else.

Chris Butler
COO, WeCanDo.BIZ

The term ‘Virtual Assistant’ might need reconsidering too as this is already in use to describe outsourced personal assistance in business.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

The term ‘Virtual Assistant’ might need reconsidering too as this is already in use to describe outsourced personal assistance in business.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

Check http://Inteliwise.com – they offer virtual assistans focused on customer service – it can reduce your customer staff workload by 20% I belive (and can serve 80% of FAQs people would call in with)
they got fully integrated product plus the lady on the webiste is smokin hot:)

Timothy Kay says:
hi
- Wilma – says:
What’s up?
Timothy Kay says:
I’d like to see a movie.
- Wilma – says:
Please wait while I retrieve that information from MSN Movies…
Here are the movies currently playing in 94024.
(I’ll show you in the activity window.)
Timothy Kay says:
What’s the weather in Seattle?
- Wilma – says:
It’s terrific weather in Seattle (WA) today – sunny and mild temperatures.
(I’ll show you in the activity window.)
Timothy Kay says:
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
- Wilma – says:
What do you mean? An African or a European swallow?

although limited and specific functionality might be the whole point as third party apps, plug ins and services could flourish on top of this to fill the void or you could roll out a steady flow of features down the road to keep it relevant…

but my vision was for a VA to work it needs to be able to do the following:

-filter alerts, newsfeeds RSS and data aggregates from multiple sources for the user and be able to relay them to the user thru multiple mediums by importance and relevance as configured by the user
-needs to have a capacity to learn and share
-needs to be able to aggregate personality and mood via gauging it as much as possible with audio cues like voice pitch, tone, loudness, speed ect
-needs to know or aggregate the likes and dislikes of the user to provide accurate recommendations
-needs a customizable avatar to visually represent the VA
- can utilize multiple mediums, phone call sms email IM fax ect as well as directly via the app or web to facilitate communication with user
- and it needs to be able to do voice recog functionality like voice to text and what not
-also it needs to be able to update calender events, to do lists, status updates, bang out emails or grp texts read/write files and data and access or interact with apps and services
-natural language search or something like wolfram alpha is a must to lock down casual usage and common question queries

although I realize that my Aida concept might be a bit ambitious and a little feature creep but the way i see it you gotta go big or go home with VA’s

but anyways Kudos for getting it all together and making it happen thats more then I could accomplish for sure

best of luck

D