Botwiki Updates #18

I created a Botmakers.org meetup group 🙂

Thanks to the generous offer from Gyro to provide space for a Botwiki/Botmakers-related event, I have an opportunity to host a Botwiki edit-a-thon!

Check out the Meetup.com page here, but note that the date is not yet confirmed.

Let me know if you are interested in giving a short presentation!

Bots, libraries and resources

• @NixieBot is a “a twitterised, neon display, clock”
• @gutenquestions and @gutenquiz ask all the hard questions from classic literature
• @Acidblotbot likes colorful images
• @V2FzaGluZ3Rvbg spits out images from DC’s traffic cameras; see also v2fzagluz3rvbg.com and a post on washingtonian.com
• @botilius_syrus tweets the sayings of the Roman slave Publilius Syrus auto-annotated with emoji (and this is also Liza Daly‘s Monthly Bot Challenge submission!)
• @qrdecoder helps you decipher QR codes
• you can tweet at @roulettron only once
• Google Cloud Vision API entered Beta and is open to all to try
• watson-word-watcher is a “proof of concept using IBM’s Speech-to-Text API to do quick-and-dirty transcriptions”
• and botfamily.com lets your browse Telegram bots

Reading list

• On Chatbots (techcrunch.com)
• Twitter Bot Encyclopedia (2014) by Elizaveta Pritychenko (full book on archive.org)
• Kik Battles Facebook With Bots In The New Messaging Wars(forbes.com)
• The fall… and rise and rise and rise of chat networks (arstechnica.com)
• The Care of AI to Come (psfk.com)
• Slack Bot Onboarding: Lessons learned from onboarding 2,000 companies (Jeremy Vandehey via medium.com)
• Oh Hi There, Bot: UX reflections on Slack bot discovery, onboarding, interaction (Vijay Sundaram via medium.com)
• Better living through Twitter bots, part 1 (ironholds.org)
• Why bots matter (@glusman via medium.com)
• Slack is the new favorite tool of newsrooms (digiday.com)
• Creating a Computer Voice That People Like (nytimes.com)
• A 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that has appealed $3 million in parking tickets (techinsider.io)