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RSS feed for topic botsCopyright 2006 Matt MowerSquib/0.1self@mattmower.comself@mattmower.comen-gbIf Alice could talkTue, 25 Jun 2002 11:08:08 +0100<A href="http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2002/06/25.html#a2504">Library Chat Greeter</A>.
<P><A href="http://www.wiredbots.com/tutorial.html">Roll Your Own IM-bot</A></P>
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<P>"WiredBots: simple toolkits for making AIM and MSN Messenger IM bots." [<A href="http://boingboing.net/#85196400">Boing Boing</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>This is too damn cool! If I was only a programmer, I would play around with it and create a library bot that patrons could query for bestseller lists, library hours, and eventually OPAC & database queries. Anybody else want to try until that day when pigs fly?</P>
<P>Alternatively, maybe Andy B. could provide some assistance on this one....</P>
<P>[<A href="http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/">The Shifted Librarian</A>]</P>
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<P><FONT color=red>»</FONT> This sounds like a neat idea. Combined with something like <A href="http://www.alicebot.org/">AliceBot</A> to provide dialogue/response I think it could be a very powerful tool packaged in a way lots of people will already find easy to access.</P>
<P> </P></BLOCKQUOTE>http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000039.htmlPatently absurdThu, 15 Aug 2002 18:24:32 +0100<P><A href="http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1446781">Internet News</A>: "New York-based ActiveBuddy has won a crucial patent covering instant messaging bot-making technology, but hobbyists and amateur developers aren't buying the company's claim that it invented the technology." [<A href="http://www.scripting.com/">Scripting News</A>]</P>
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<P><FONT color=red>»</FONT> I'm drawn to wonder; Does a patent application have a space for you to list your venture backers these days? Does the patent office even bother to look for prior art?</P>
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<P>From <A href="http://www.cpan.org">www.cpan.org</A></P>
<P><IMG alt="[ ]" src="http://www.cpan.org/icons/unknown.gif"> <A href="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Net/Net-AIM-0.01.readme">Net-AIM-0.01.readme</A> 18-Aug-1999 15:37 1.5K <BR><IMG alt=[CMP] src="http://www.cpan.org/icons/compressed.gif"> <A href="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Net/Net-AIM-0.01.tar.gz">Net-AIM-0.01.tar.gz</A> 18-Aug-1999 16:34 25K <BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>I think the patent system should be changed into a community based process. There should be an RSS stream generated by the various offices that details applications under review for processing and trackback should be used to allow the community to comment on them.</P>
<P>As to Tim Kay's assertion:</P>
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<P>"If you want to do things that our products allow you to do, your best choice is to use our products," Kay said, referring to the <A href="http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/enterprise/article/0,,10816_1444521,00.html">recent launch</A> of the Lite BuddyScript Server, which can be used by hobbyists to develop and run IM bots.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P dir=ltr>Well I guess I'd be that smug too if I'd just put one over on my competitors.</P>
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