December 19, 2005
Check this out: add “IndeedJobs” as a friend on Google Talk and say “hello”. You’ll get a nice (and fast) interface to the 
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Fortino
not confirming additions quickly
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Honeycut
Ha. I jokingly entered “guitarist” expecting no results. But it seems the world still needs rockstars - look out here I come. Oh and I can plug the results into my desktop via RSS. Man that is cool.
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Brian Breslin
do many people even use google talk?
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Rishi Khaitan
Great idea but it seems silly that they would have created a GTalk bot before an AIM bot.
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chris
Unfortunately, AIM is a closed network, whereas Google Talk is open, based on the open standard XMPP (aka Jabber).
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pwb
I’m amazed at how rare IM bots are. While I don’t really care for this bot, I can see lots of opportunities with either request/response bots or notification bots. ActiveBuddy was going down this path but appears to have gotton nowhere.
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brandon
AIM/MSN Bots are pretty simple to build w/ conversagent’s buddyscript software. I would have definitely gone that route before google.
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John Resig
pwb: There’s so few AIM bots due to the stifling limitations of the AOL protocol - generally speaking, you can only send one message every five seconds - which makes for a very poor user experience. Until that number is able to be lowered, you’ll continue to see very few bots.
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Ed Dunn
pwb: I discovered most people do not like talking to IM/IRC bots because IM/IRC are a communication medium shared by humans.
Bot technology is more progressive and adopted than we assume because companies don’t promote it - companies lay off hundreds of people for every new bot which isn’t good PR….
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nec
check smarterchild!
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Bob michaels
i loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove Im bots
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Bob michaels
do you think anyone reads these quotes cuz they dont
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