Bots, Bots, Bots

Doin some research on bots, what the hell are bots anyways... Amazon Bots http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/479 Wikipedia definition for bots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot Tutorial on AIM Bots http://www.wiredbots.com/tutorial.html Googlematic http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article.php/10817_1012411 Interesting phrase about web services from Build Your Own IM Bot... http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article.php/10817_1015731 Googlematic was created last September, and was a hit almost right away, Webb said during an IM-based interview. He said creating the bot was "fairly easy" to do because it is built in the Perl language. "The beauty of Perl is it's just gluing together different people's code," he said. "That's why Web services will create the next layer of the Web, really unexpected applications -- because glue is easy to write." posted by julz @ 8:23 PM1 comments