There’s a great writeup about Siri over on ReadWriteWeb.
Siri, a virtual personal assistant, will recognize your voice query and either give you the answer to your question or connect you to the right web service.
As far as digital convergence goes, this is a doozy. It communicates with communication mediums for you. According to RWW, ‘Siri’s CEO Dag Kittlaus described Siri as “the mother of all mashups.”‘
Frederic Lardinois provides a very thorough article, so I encourage you to read about Siri there, if you’d like to learn more about the juicy bits, but you can watch the video here.
Of course, I took Siri for a test drive. I asked it a very difficult question, ‘Who has the best snowboarding in Tahoe today?’ It wasn’t able to answer this question and returned search results, but in all fairness, this question warrants a completely subjective response, so I didn’t feel it failed. I was more curious just to see what would happen.
When I asked it for the best coffee shop in Marin to have a meeting at, it quickly returned several Sausalito results, which you can map, call, share, save, and read reviews about. All in all, pretty badass.
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