Everybody Wants a Piece of the Pie

The last couple of weeks have been a bit strange in the Alexa development community. My previous post talked about the Alexa Accelerator, and in a way that could be seen as a positive indicator of the state of the platform/space. There's a flipside to a having a vibrant platform, though, which is that it is inevitably going to attract people who see its popularity and its position in the zeitgeist as a vector for shortcutting to some end goal. And indeed, we've been seeing our fair share of that lately as well, and we'll show a few examples of this sort of behavior...

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