I do like the idea of getting everything into one place, but I'm a bit concerned about how it gets the data from each platform.
The platforms have a pretty huge incentive to keep you on their platform, so any top of automation/botting is actively something they try to shut down, or am I incorrect about this?
For example LinkedIn needs to serve ads, if you're able to bypass their UI entirely, you're not getting ads. Or am I missing something here?
Would be cool to hear your thinking around this as well as what technical approach was taken.
I agree with all that Joseph commented above. I'd add that we're not removing users from the LinkedIn or Instagram scroll - if you want to view content on LinkedIn or any other social platform, you still need to go to the platform itself. We just wanted to make it easier to stay on top of the 5+ different messaging platforms we're all expected to check.
I think about it like an inverted WULPH.com (the office). I just want to have 1 app that is the source of all my comms.
Many platforms right now are making the difficult decision whether to:
(a) wall off their data from programmatic access (agents) altogether in service of keeping real humans on their site, or
(b) allow programmatic access for the increasing number of users who are demanding their agents interact with the data
We obviously believe humanity and society and cyberspace should go in the direction of (b)
LinkedIn is an interesting case because their policy, so far, has been to aggressively restrict agents from interacting with their site. But this is because they serve human-centered ads which most of us find aggressive and annoying (I'm thinking of messages appearing in my DMs that appear real but are in fact sponsored). So you would still see that "ad" even if you were using Attention. It would just be easier to label it as "promotional" and i would prefer my agent does that so I do not even have to see it.
I want linkedin to serve my agent ads that are so interesting and personally compelling that my agent thinks i should hear about it.
Just my 2ยข - perhaps my cofounder will chime in with his own thoughts
I do like the idea of getting everything into one place, but I'm a bit concerned about how it gets the data from each platform.
The platforms have a pretty huge incentive to keep you on their platform, so any top of automation/botting is actively something they try to shut down, or am I incorrect about this?
For example LinkedIn needs to serve ads, if you're able to bypass their UI entirely, you're not getting ads. Or am I missing something here?
Would be cool to hear your thinking around this as well as what technical approach was taken.
I agree with all that Joseph commented above. I'd add that we're not removing users from the LinkedIn or Instagram scroll - if you want to view content on LinkedIn or any other social platform, you still need to go to the platform itself. We just wanted to make it easier to stay on top of the 5+ different messaging platforms we're all expected to check.
I think about it like an inverted WULPH.com (the office). I just want to have 1 app that is the source of all my comms.
- Julius
yeah, great question.
Many platforms right now are making the difficult decision whether to: (a) wall off their data from programmatic access (agents) altogether in service of keeping real humans on their site, or (b) allow programmatic access for the increasing number of users who are demanding their agents interact with the data
We obviously believe humanity and society and cyberspace should go in the direction of (b)
LinkedIn is an interesting case because their policy, so far, has been to aggressively restrict agents from interacting with their site. But this is because they serve human-centered ads which most of us find aggressive and annoying (I'm thinking of messages appearing in my DMs that appear real but are in fact sponsored). So you would still see that "ad" even if you were using Attention. It would just be easier to label it as "promotional" and i would prefer my agent does that so I do not even have to see it.
I want linkedin to serve my agent ads that are so interesting and personally compelling that my agent thinks i should hear about it.
Just my 2ยข - perhaps my cofounder will chime in with his own thoughts
- Joseph