In the episode Dave chats with John Kelvie. John is the founders of Bespoken, a suite of tools that helps developers with building, debugging and monitoring their Alexa Skills.

Links:

Bespoken Tools: http://bespoken.tools/

Bespoken Blog: http://bespoken.tools/blog

John's Twitter: http://twitter.com/jpkbst

Alexadev Slack Channel: http://alexaslack.com

In the episode Dave chats with Sameer Lalwani, Sr. Program Manager on the Alexa Skills Certification team at Amazon. Sameer shares best practices for getting your skill published as well as guidance for building more engaging skills for your customers.

Links:

Certification Requirements for Custom Skills: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/alexa-skills-kit-submission-checklist

Certification Posts on Alexa Blog: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/home/tag/Certification

Alexa Skills Kit Support Forums: https://forums.developer.amazon.com/spaces/23/index.html

Contact Us - Alexa Skills: https://developer.amazon.com/public/support/contact/contact-us?subjectCategory=ALEXA

In the episode Dave chats with Sameer Lalwani, Sr. Program Manager on the Alexa Skills Certification team at Amazon. Sameer shares best practices for getting your skill published as well as guidance for building more engaging skills for your customers.

Links:

Certification Requirements for Custom Skills: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/alexa-skills-kit-submission-checklist

Certification Posts on Alexa Blog: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/home/tag/Certification

Alexa Skills Kit Support Forums: https://forums.developer.amazon.com/spaces/23/index.html

Contact Us - Alexa Skills: https://developer.amazon.com/public/support/contact/contact-us?subjectCategory=ALEXA

In the episode Dave catches up with Zach Parker, head of Business Development for Alexa Smart Home at Amazon. The two discuss recent product innovations, new customer experiences and current Smart Home industry trends.

Links:

Smart Home on Amazon.com: http://amazon.com/smarthome

Smart Home Skill API: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/smart-home

In the episode Dave catches up with Zach Parker, head of Business Development for Alexa Smart Home at Amazon. The two discuss recent product innovations, new customer experiences and current Smart Home industry trends.

Links:

Smart Home on Amazon.com: http://amazon.com/smarthome

Smart Home Skill API: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/smart-home

In the episode Dave chats with Alexa Champion, John Wheeler. John is the author of the popular Flask-Ask framework which helps developers quickly create and test high quality Alexa skills using the Python programming language.

Links:

John's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_johnwheeler

Flask-Ask Website: https://flask-ask.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Flask-Ask training at Alexatutorial.com: https://alexatutorial.com/

Flask-Ask GitHub: https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask

Flask Website: http://flask.pocoo.org/

In the episode Dave chats with Alexa Champion, John Wheeler. John is the author of the popular Flask-Ask framework which helps developers quickly create and test high quality Alexa skills using the Python programming language.

Links:

John's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_johnwheeler

Flask-Ask Website: https://flask-ask.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Flask-Ask training at Alexatutorial.com: https://alexatutorial.com/

Flask-Ask GitHub: https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask

Flask Website: http://flask.pocoo.org/

In the episode Dave chats with Bob Lautenbach. Bob is an Alexa skills developer who has published a bunch open source projects that aid developers in creating Alex skills using C# and Visual Studio.

Links:

Bob’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/boblautenbach

AlexaSillsKit.NET: https://github.com/AreYouFreeBusy/AlexaSkillsKit.NET

Amazon ASK Linking: https://github.com/boblautenbach/amazon-ask-linking

Alexa ASK .Net Template: https://github.com/boblautenbach/AlexaASKNetTemplate

Enabling oAuth Refresh Tokens with ASP.Net Web API: http://bitoftech.net/2014/07/16/enable-oauth-refresh-tokens-angularjs-app-using-asp-net-web-api-2-owin/

In the episode Dave chats with Bob Lautenbach. Bob is an Alexa skills developer who has published a bunch open source projects that aid developers in creating Alex skills using C# and Visual Studio.

Links:

Bob’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/boblautenbach

AlexaSillsKit.NET: https://github.com/AreYouFreeBusy/AlexaSkillsKit.NET

Amazon ASK Linking: https://github.com/boblautenbach/amazon-ask-linking

Alexa ASK .Net Template: https://github.com/boblautenbach/AlexaASKNetTemplate

Enabling oAuth Refresh Tokens with ASP.Net Web API: http://bitoftech.net/2014/07/16/enable-oauth-refresh-tokens-angularjs-app-using-asp-net-web-api-2-owin/

Customers can now browse the breadth of the Alexa skills catalog and discover new Alexa skills on Amazon.com. In this episode Dave chats with Nora Kelly, a Sr. Marketing Manager on Alexa whose team covers consumer marketing and customer experience for Alexa skills. The two discuss how Alexa skills are ranked, how skills appear in the weekly trending placements, how to ensure customers know your skill has been updated and how you can interact with customers directly on your skill's Amazon.com detail page.

Links:

Alexa Skills Department on Amazon.com - http://amazon.com/skills