Botwiki site updates, new bots, and events.
Posted 5 years ago in Site updates
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)
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