Botwiki site updates, new bots, and events.
📅 April 4, 2016 in Site updates
It’s April, which means that the March Monthly Bot Challenge submission time has ended — and you can now vote for your favorite film and TV-themed bot! (The link to the form is at the bottom.)
Also, the theme for April was announced 🙂
Bots, libraries and resources
- @atinyzoo is a bot that tweets “very small ZOOs”
- @ChickenXRd answers the age old question
- @puppersplz awards you with puppies
- @handclap_quotes 👏 keeps 👏 clapping 👏 as 👏 it 👏 posts 👏 quotes
- Microsoft was on a roll last week, announcing their own bot framework, Skype Bot SDK, Language Understanding Intelligent Service, Microsoft Cognitive Services, and a new image-captioning bot (wait, is that…really a bot, or just a website?)
- The Financial Times has a WeChat bot
- Sephora, the cosmetics brand, launched a bot for the kik messenger
- ServerStatsBot is an open-source Telegram bot that can monitor your server for you
- and is-this-katy is a Telegram bot that verifies its creator’s identity via her implanted NFC transponder
Reading list
- The tech industry wants to use women’s voices – they just won’t listen to them (theguardian.com)
- Interview with the Bot: “Is there a line between functional and aesthetic bots?” (bot.watch)
- Rise of the middleman economy – Conversational UI’s, Bots, and ChatBots (joshuanewnham.com)
- Clippy’s Back: The Future of Microsoft Is Chatbots (bloomberg.com)
- Behind Facebook Messenger’s plan to be an app platform(engadget.com)
- Through the AI Eye (Alyx Baldwin via neutrois.me)
- Bots and Gender (Veronica Belmont via medium.com)
- Daily Tech News Show: Always Bet on Bot (youtube.com, with Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt)
- Why Microsoft believes that AI bots are the only logical path forward(dailydot.com)
- Chat bots, conversation and AI as an interface (ben-evans.com)
- Bonus: “Conversational commerce is unproven” + Debunking WeChat
- Bonus #2: Bots Are Hot! (a 1996 WIRED article)
Events
#BotTO is going to have their first meetup in Toronto, on March 31, BuzzFeed OpenLab invites you to explore new ways to gather information and tell stories, and the third annual Source #Botweek kicks off on April 25, 2016!
Stefan
Creator of Botwiki and Botmakers, Botwiki editor, and Botmakers community manager.
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