When I stopped recording at the end of the conversation, a Save prompt offered an Upload to YouTube option.
Instead of interacting with a concierge-type service, Prompt offers automated assistance across categories, including commerce, home automation, information and productivity.
Publishers can even tie in the bar to their back-end via API and prompt offers based on virtual currency balances.
After booting the machine image, a friendly message at the login prompt offers usage tips and directions to documentation.
During Q. & A.s, people identify themselves by their Twitter handles instead of their names, and, without prompting, offer elevator pitches for their startups.
Hearing someone casually, and without prompting, offer me a reference that encompasses what would once have been impossibly disparate and parochial experiences reminds me of the quantum leap the cultural aspects of soccer have taken in the digital age.
A woman sitting across from me smiled and, with little prompting, offered an hour-long history of the town.
That prompted offers from Hollywood, and Mr. Lehman's trip west, on what he called "the last train from Berlin" -- because it felt even then as if the picture business were breaking apart.
Mary turned to face me again and without prompting offered up gambling tips in a tone that reminded me of the final speech of a war film.
The British press storm had prompted offers of 1250 hospital beds in 17 countries by August 15; though a vast increase on prior offers of help, the total was dwarfed by the estimated 39,000 children requiring hospital treatment throughout Bosnia.
