Tag - Bot
Messenger bots have become popular over the past couple of years, and are a growing trend for most Messenger clients. Amit Agarwal over at Digital Inspiration knows a few things about them, and has created a tutorial on how to create your own Messenger bot:
>> View the tutorial over at the Digital Inspiration blog
This quick tutorial will show you how to develop your own functional IM bot that works with Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live and all other popular instant messaging clients.
To get started, all you need to know are some very basic programming skills (any language would do) and web space to host your 'bot'.
For this example, I have created a dummy bot called 'labnol' that listens to your IM messages and return related search phrases based on Google Suggest. To see this live, add labnol@bot.im to your GTalk buddy list and start chatting.
To get started, all you need to know are some very basic programming skills (any language would do) and web space to host your 'bot'.
For this example, I have created a dummy bot called 'labnol' that listens to your IM messages and return related search phrases based on Google Suggest. To see this live, add labnol@bot.im to your GTalk buddy list and start chatting.
>> View the tutorial over at the Digital Inspiration blog
For all of you who don't know, Twitter is "a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length." Basically it keeps you and your friends up-to-date with each other, you literally tell this service what your doing and others view this on your Twitter page.
The traditional way is to use Twitter via text-messaging, but this new form of social networking has expanded into other services, such as an app for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Now you can use Twitter through Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger and of course Windows Live Messenger using an interactive bot.
Twitt'd requires your username and password, then you're off! It is really easy to use and get a hold of, plus you don't need to worry about wasting text messages. To use Twitt'd for Windows Live Messenger add twittd@live.com as a contact.
>> Visit the official website
>> View our Twitter page (yes, we have one)
The traditional way is to use Twitter via text-messaging, but this new form of social networking has expanded into other services, such as an app for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Now you can use Twitter through Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger and of course Windows Live Messenger using an interactive bot.
Twitt'd requires your username and password, then you're off! It is really easy to use and get a hold of, plus you don't need to worry about wasting text messages. To use Twitt'd for Windows Live Messenger add twittd@live.com as a contact.
>> Visit the official website
>> View our Twitter page (yes, we have one)
Messenger bots are being made more frequently and also more interesting than ever these days. Poynt is another new bot which I discovered today:
Sounds interesting, and although it is still in the early stages of development it is a very useful bot, despite it being rather annoying to use at the moment.
>> Visit the Poynt website
Poynt (mypoynt.com) is a free multimedia local search service that can be used all over North America. You simply add poynt@live.com as a contact to your Windows Live Messenger or poynt on your AOL Instant Messenger and away you go. Once you have specified your search location, you can enter keywords for the businesses and services you need (like pizza or movies) and the results are returned, with those closest to your specified search location listed first.
With the ability to display all kinds of media, like movie trailers, and rich mapping functions inside of Messenger, we know this will be a very useful and handy tool for getting a handle on whatever it is you're looking for, no matter where you go. We are also actively working on making Poynt available across more platforms, including a BlackBerry application, expected to be available later in Q1 2008.
With the ability to display all kinds of media, like movie trailers, and rich mapping functions inside of Messenger, we know this will be a very useful and handy tool for getting a handle on whatever it is you're looking for, no matter where you go. We are also actively working on making Poynt available across more platforms, including a BlackBerry application, expected to be available later in Q1 2008.
Sounds interesting, and although it is still in the early stages of development it is a very useful bot, despite it being rather annoying to use at the moment.
>> Visit the Poynt website
Unless you have been hiding under a rock the past month and a half you will know it is the holiday season (I'm tempted to say Christmas, but I'm staying culturally neutral). As you can imagine Microsoft's own Santa bot for Messenger (asksanta@live.ca/ northpole@live.com) is very popular this time of year and some people have found odd ways to make Santa say some rather disturbing things:
This isn't really news, but if your bored maybe you too can get chatting to Santa about your wildest fantasies.
>> Source: mess.be
>> View a screenshot of the bot in action
El Reg says: pizza (pi)
Santa says: Yum! What do you want for Christmas, El Reg?
El Reg says: Maybe you shouldn't eat so much! You are quite large!
Santa says: My elves will get right on that. And what else are you wishing for this year, El Reg?
El Reg says: Maybe you shouldn't eat it?
Santa says: See if you can get someone else to eat it!
El Reg says: Eat it
Santa says: No thank you. I don't eat things!
El Reg says: Eat it
Santa says: See if you can get someone else to eat it!
El Reg says: Eat it
Santa says: You want me to eat what?!? It's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else...
El Reg says: You dirty bastard!
Santa says: I think you're dirty bastard.
More questionable replies as reported by other readers:
'cake' or 'snow' -> 'You don't need drugs when you're high on life!'
'you are high' -> 'I like being high!'
'have you slept with Paris Hilton?' -> 'Not yet, but I hope to sometime.'
'crack is awesome' -> 'Crack sure is.'
Santa says: Yum! What do you want for Christmas, El Reg?
El Reg says: Maybe you shouldn't eat so much! You are quite large!
Santa says: My elves will get right on that. And what else are you wishing for this year, El Reg?
El Reg says: Maybe you shouldn't eat it?
Santa says: See if you can get someone else to eat it!
El Reg says: Eat it
Santa says: No thank you. I don't eat things!
El Reg says: Eat it
Santa says: See if you can get someone else to eat it!
El Reg says: Eat it
Santa says: You want me to eat what?!? It's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else...
El Reg says: You dirty bastard!
Santa says: I think you're dirty bastard.
More questionable replies as reported by other readers:
'cake' or 'snow' -> 'You don't need drugs when you're high on life!'
'you are high' -> 'I like being high!'
'have you slept with Paris Hilton?' -> 'Not yet, but I hope to sometime.'
'crack is awesome' -> 'Crack sure is.'
This isn't really news, but if your bored maybe you too can get chatting to Santa about your wildest fantasies.
>> Source: mess.be
>> View a screenshot of the bot in action
Flashboy has launched a new bot for your enjoyment. It is a new robot for Messenger that can translate nearly all European languages, get weather on a chosen city and calculate simple mathematical expressions, right from MSN/ Windows Live Messenger. Just add bot@techie.com and starting using the following commands:
For more information, support, and a complete list of commands for Quickbot visit MSN Quickbot's homepage.
>> Visit the Quickbot website
- !en-ge = English to German
Example: !en-ge This is a test - !ge-en = German to English
- !en-ru = English to Russian
- !ru-en = Russian to English
- !en-pr = English to Portuguese
- !calc = calculates any expression
Example: !calc (5^3-2.7)*2 + cos(5)^2 - (ln(e))^10) - !weather = returns temperature, local time and weather.
Example: !weather Amsterdam - !google = returns the first 10 Google search results
Example: !google Messenger Stuff - !help = returns help message
For more information, support, and a complete list of commands for Quickbot visit MSN Quickbot's homepage.
>> Visit the Quickbot website