For technical hires, Javascript was the most popular skills, followed by Java, HTML, Python and C++.
To date, customers made over 3 million requests from the top 10 most popular Skills, which include Jeopardy!, Daily Affirmation, Magic 8 Ball, Fitbit, and The Bartender.
Olson, the Disney engineer, built two of the most popular Echo skills: complibot and insultibot, which teach the machine to dole out compliments and insults on command.
That number was officially confirmed by Amazon at CES. Voicebot also noted that Flash Briefings are still one of the most popular categories of skills, in terms of those that are live on the Alexa Skill Store today.
While daily briefing skills and quizzes are among the most popular types of Alexa skills today, the way the paper is experimenting with its Sunday paper contest is interesting.
From the network's 200 million members, the company looked at those who have active accounts, and were within the first million to register, who have more than 100 profile views (excluding self-profile views), have more than 100 connections, and have the most endorsements for popular skills in their country.
Googlers in 2014 were also asking for tips on learning new skills, with the most popular being "how to draw", followed by "how to kiss" and "how to crochet".
Samsung also flashed its lady-killing skills as the most popular among the fairer sex while Motorola threw a sausage party for all the men in the house.
Oviedo set up his own faction within the governing Colorado Party, rapidly becoming its most popular politician thanks partly to his rhetorical skills.
Most popular teaching methods include live demonstration (98%), skills training sessions (71%) and video demonstration (59%).
