{"id":24855,"date":"2016-04-20T14:32:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T21:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/build-networks-not-bots"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:14:11","slug":"build-networks-not-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/build-networks-not-bots","title":{"rendered":"Build Networks, Not Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/build-networks-not-bots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bots are only as good as their under pinning legacy infrastructure\/ networks. Glad to see this article and someone speaking again for investors outside SV.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bots hit the mark on every pattern Silicon Valley loves. But for investors and entrepreneurs \u2014 and executives outside of San Francisco trying to figure out what <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/04\/11\/what-are-bots\/\">this bot business<\/a> is all about \u2014 it\u2019s worth taking a step back and looking at this frenzy with fresh eyes and a bigger picture.<\/p>\n<p>Simple interactions between people \u2014 making a connection, following and messaging \u2014 when captured in a digital network of people who know each other already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\">personally<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\">professionally<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\">by reputation<\/a>, have created a handful of extremely valuable networks where three billion people today <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/life-learning\/may-i-have-your-attention-please-19ef6395b2c3#.66etfunw5\">spend the majority of their time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignright\"><p>Facebook pages are like the once-vibrant amusement park that got knocked down for condos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/04\/19\/build-networks-not-bots\/\">http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/04\/19\/build-networks-not-bots\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bots are only as good as their under pinning legacy infrastructure\/ networks. Glad to see this article and someone speaking again for investors outside SV. Bots hit the mark on every pattern Silicon Valley loves. But for investors and entrepreneurs \u2014 and executives outside of San Francisco trying to figure out what this bot business [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50764,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24855\/revisions\/50764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}