Happy 4th of July Monday, everyone! This was the best American flag / bot mashup image I could find. Sorry.
Bots have been busy inserting themselves into Brexit petitions (cheeky!) and helping citizens across the pond get out of pesky traffic tickets (delightful!).
Just on a personal note, I wanted to say how thrilled I am with the bot coverage over on VentureBeat. They’ve been killing it over there! So if you’re noticing a lot of VB articles in the newsletter, that’s why.
If you find an article, wrote an article, made a bot, found a bot that you love, let me know! Tweet us @botwikidotorg, or join botmakers.org and shoot me a DM. We want to include you!
Following the Brexit vote to leave the European Union, the United Kingdom’s government is investigating the addition of fake signatures in the petition for a second referendum, which has received more 3.7 million signatures.
Chatbots are changing the way we interact with services and have already been labelled as the “new apps”. They could be the future of communication and the b…
We’re at the cusp of a sharp rise in devices that have no screen but do have conversational voice controls, such as the Amazon Echo. Smart home and Internet-of-things (IoT) objects that respond to users’ voices will improve and become more intuitive with further iterations and wider adoption.
The Switzerland-based company behind the Doodle online scheduling service announced today that it has acquired Meekan, a scheduling chatbot developed in Israel.
Bot Libre now supports integrating with XML and JSON web services, HTML scraping, and access to Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, email, and other services. From our scripting languages Self, and AIML you can now access any web service that returns XML or JSON data.
Not all Twitter bots are racist – some are genuinely creepy, (but in the best possible way). Take @smilevector, an algorithm created by New Zealand neural netw…
Chris Messina, developer experience lead at Uber and inventor of the hashtag, said back in January that 2016 is “the year of conversational commerce.” Today, he’s launching his own personal assistant chatbot, called MessinaBot.
Too many messages in Slack? Let Must-read handle it Must-read is your digital communication assistant. He will help your team to collect important messages and links and track who have read it.
Allows you to create company events without leaving Slack. There are built-in one-click RSVPs and you can track all the upcoming events and their attendees.
An Immersive Discussion of In-App AI & Intelligent Assistance Bots
Bio: Joe is a tech startup enthusiast and digital content producer, with his finger on the pulse of new developments in AI chatbo
It’s time for Bots & BUDDIES at the brand new Hacker Dojo! Please join us for this new, but familiar event. We’ll do our best to keep the same spirit alive, but have had to change a few things around due to new Dojo requirements. Stay tuned!
The BotMakers Detroit First Official MeetUp, GreetUp & BotUp!
I’m excited to invite all local BotMakers on the campus of Detroit’s leading Digital Marketing and Customer Experience Agency, and my employer, MRM//McCann Detroit in Downtown Birmingham.
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