The Bots Are All Right

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Bad, Bad Bots

Bad, Bad Bots 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

IRC bots

IRC bots 05/14/2004 03:25 PM
So cial Network Bot.

 IRC Junkie reports of PieSpy 0.4.0:

Those who like toys, or are interested in social networks will like this bot. It is a “social network bot“ which renders diagrams that show the social structure of a channel.

“I’ve just released PieSpy version 0.4.0” PieSpy coder Paul Mutton said to IRCJunkie. “It will probably never reach 1.0, as
that’s just the way I version things :)”

This new version contains the tracking of nick changes, “which was the most popular feature request” , and faster rendering of the images showing the social networks.

“You can now apply different weightings to each of the heuristics that are used to infer relationships and the source code has been refactored so it is now very easy to make your own inference heuristics” , Paul adds.

You can find PieSpy here.

O’Reilly will release a book shortly by Paul Mutton, “IRC Hacks, 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools”.

[The Social Software Weblog]

This fits in well with the hecklebot and dashboard - two other kind of botty IRcy thingies.

Pandora Bots

Pandora Bots 11/01/2003 07:27 AM
Pandora Bots
http://www.pandorabots.com/

Welcome to pandorabots.com, the place where you can create and unleash virtual personalities. Pandorabots.com is an experimental software robot (bot) hosting service based on the work of Dr. Richard Wallace and the A.L.I.C.E./AIML free software community (www.alicebot.org).

From any browser, you may create, design and publish your own software robots – and make them available to anyone via the Internet. Click here to sign-up for an account to begin creating your own virtual robots. If you already have an account, please sign-in below with your email address and password.

Booth Bots?

Booth Bots? 07/26/2004 11:08 PM
Instead of booth babes, geeks at the 2004 AAAI National Conference may be seeing booth bots. Robots particpating in the annual Robot Competition and Exhibition will be required to work in the vendor booths at the convention as part of the contest. The robots will have to register themselves for the conference, find their assigned booth, and interact with human particpants doing things such as escorting them to destinations within meeting hall. Each robot will also have to arrive at a pre-scheduled time and location to present a talk to the humans. A CMU press release says that Grace and George, a pair of social robots developed by researchers at CMU and two other labs, will be working the show.

Bluetooth Bots

Bluetooth Bots 09/02/2004 05:14 PM
A David Pescovitz article in the TheFeature.com describes the use of the Bluetooth protocol in robotics. Among the robots mentioned are a bio-inspired, vision-based robot blimp from the Autonomous Systems Lab of the EPFL and the Seiko-Epson mini helicopter robot that we reported on last month. Ironically, support for Bluetooth, which has never achieved much popularity, was dropped by Ericsson recently.

Wired bots.

Wired bots. 04/19/2004 04:28 PM
Tutorial: make your own AIM/MSN chat bot with Perl .. programming involved in Building an AIM bot .. Roll your own IM Bots

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Bots-Only Poker Tournament

Bots-Only Poker Tournament 06/17/2005 03:45 PM

If our las t post on bots in online poker is any indication, a lot of you might be interested in this LA Times Article:

The march of the machines will be celebrated in Las Vegas next month with the world's first money tournament for robots — and the $100,000 prize is drawing a handful of coders out of anonymity.

The emerging technology does more than raise the stakes for real people and online casinos. It also raises fundamental questions about how far computers have come in mimicking and improving on human behavior, and about how far they can go in the future.

The article goes on to quote some AI folks stating that getting a computer to master poker will probably drive AI forward far more than a computer winning chess or backgammon, since it's such a psychological game, and involves understanding human patterns.

Sadly, this poker tournament will not include my favorite parts of a local Texas Hold'em tournament. Namely, eating too many chips and laughing so hard that I nearly fall out of my chair.

Via Waxy.

Birth of the Bluetooth Bots

Birth of the Bluetooth Bots 09/02/2004 06:44 AM
The Feature Sep 2 2004 9:49AM GMT

Hackers Use People as Bots

Hackers Use People as Bots 01/29/2004 02:49 AM

Cory Doctorow describes how some creative hackers are using people as bots to workaround 'captchas', images of distorted text, which is used to protect against bots by websites such as Hotmail and Register.com.

The ingenious crack is to offer a free porn site which requires that you key in the solution to a captcha -- which has been inlined from Yahoo or Hotmail -- before you can gain access. Free porn sites attract lots of users around the clock, and the spammers were able to generate captcha solutions fast enough to create as many throw-away email accounts as they wanted.

The darkside aside, I am impressed by their ingenuity.  But then I guess it is easy to think outside the box if you were never inside the box to begin with.

Adam-Bots Programmer CD

Adam-Bots Programmer CD 09/16/2004 09:09 PM
Welcome, initial status report

AOL launches program for AIM bots

AOL launches program for AIM bots 09/20/2004 07:09 AM
America Online Inc. (AOL) is launching a program Monday to promote and facilitate the creation of what it calls AIM Robots for its AIM instant messaging system.

Bots and Humans Play Together

Bots and Humans Play Together 01/01/2004 12:20 PM
Bots and Humans Play Together
http://snipurl.com/3m2e

Joining a pickup ball game is a good way to get to know people. It might also be a good way for humans and robots to learn to work together. To that end, CMU researchers are putting together mixed teams for soccer, with the Segway scooter as the common denominator.

Will Segways become battlefield bots?

Will Segways become battlefield bots? 12/07/2003 10:53 PM

400,000 Vacuum Bots by 2006?

400,000 Vacuum Bots by 2006? 11/11/2003 01:16 AM
CNN has an article touting Hitachi's vacuum robot. Yeah, yeah, "big deal" I said to myself. But, what was really interesting to me; was that in the article it states that a UN study says that the vacuum cleaner robot sales are to soar to over 400k units by 2006. I'm aware that this has been reported before and also again back in the past, but when the numbers hit me... Wow! But, me without a robot vacuum company and in 2006 there'll be sales of 400k vacuum robots! That really... [no... I refrain]. Despite their high price tag, (well, actually the price of at least one isn't so bad) it appears that people love their home vacuum bots, and time is getting scarce. There could be also be as many as 125k lawn-mower bots, and up to 1.5 million robot toys like Sony's AIBO robotic dog in just a couple years. Wow, big numbers, I know, but still the magnatitude finally hit me and I guess I was a little stunned, and maybe it WAS a little surprising to me. Is it just me? I guess it's time for me to dust off my vacuum bot designs and get on the bandwagon - there's money to be made and time's a wastin.

Beware of Bots Bearing Messages

Beware of Bots Bearing Messages 09/10/2004 05:12 AM
Next time a stranger sends you an instant message, don't be sure there's a real person behind the exchange. You may be conversing with Chatting AIM Bot, a free service for pranksters that spews out computer-generated conversation. By Daniel Terdiman.

Online Poker Bots Becoming Problematic?

Online Poker Bots Becoming Problematic? 09/21/2004 01:09 PM

Bots and adware top threats for 2005

Bots and adware top threats for 2005 01/04/2005 08:53 AM
vnunet.com Jan 4 2005 1:26PM GMT

Software bots could menace Google ads

Software bots could menace Google ads 02/05/2005 10:05 PM

Air Force PreggoRobo Guard Bots

Air Force PreggoRobo Guard Bots 06/30/2004 11:09 AM

Bless the maker, I think this Air Force patrol robot is giving birth to a smaller, tracked robot. Oh, it is! That's it, I don't care if this guard bot can shoot missiles or distinguish between hostile or friendly targets; hell, it could kill us all on a lark for all I care. Military robots giving birth to smaller robots? Let's order dozens immediately.
Read - Air Force testing robots as security guards [MSNBC]

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Pekee Mobile Robot Platform [Gizmodo]
SpyBot Wall Climbing Camera Bot [Gizmodo]

e*media Developing ActiveBuddy Bots

e*media Developing ActiveBuddy Bots 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

BSD's Botservice Bots - BBBots.tcl

BSD's Botservice Bots - BBBots.tcl 04/23/2004 04:13 PM
Public Release on Sunday the 25th of April

VIA Technologies Demos Bots in Las Vegas

VIA Technologies Demos Bots in Las Vegas 11/19/2003 11:42 AM
Linux Electrons says that VIA Technologies is demoing PC-Bots this week in Las Vegas. Via Technologies is a maker of Mini-ITX motherboards and has taken initiative in working with the robotics community to power the Robotics Revolution. Mini-ITX boards allow robots to utilize the powerful of x86 platform but still allow for efficient power and small size. These tiny PC boards are compatible with Linux or the Windows platforms and are great for robotics. The powerful PC-Bots that were showcased were the 912 Robot by White Box and the IO from RoboDynamics. They even had a robot petting zoo for the kiddies. If your robot is not PC based, perhaps now would be a great time to upgrade and make your bot be a PC-bot too?

Bots and regular expressions (Sydney,
Aus)

Bots and regular expressions (Sydney,
Aus) 01/09/2004 09:55 PM
Rapid Intelligence Pty Ltd - Australia, NSW, Sydney (2004-01-09)

Thomas Burick on the Future of PC Bots

Thomas Burick on the Future of PC Bots 01/09/2004 11:23 PM
RoboticsTrends.com has posted a recent interview with Thomas Burick of White Box Robotics. According to the interview, it turns out Thomas got his start with the venerable Heathkit Hero robots. The interview provides some background on Burick as well as details on White Box Robotics' 912 series of PC based robots. If you haven't seen the 912 robots yet, take a look - they're some of the nicest looking robots currently available. They're based on the VIA Mini-ITX motherboard. The consumer version of the robots will ship with Windows and proprietary control software from Evolution robotics but the article suggests that a lower-cost "bare-bones" version might be available without the expensive software licenses for robot experimenters and researchers who want to run Linux and one of the more developer-friendly Open Source control systems.

Security Guard UVS Patrol Bots

Security Guard UVS Patrol Bots 11/10/2003 10:56 PM
You're starting to see them, right? The robot security guard with the yellow flashing light on top? CBC in Canada has an article about the U.S. military seeking robotic technology made-in-Canada. Unmanned Vehicle Systems (UVS), are the guard/sentrys of the future and the american military seems to be a big user of this technology. Cerkits Corporation Inc. in Canada has created robots such as MAGS (Mobile Autonomous Guard System) and The Prowler to fulfill these guard and sentry needs. At $85k each, these robots may not perform as well as a human would, but they're easier to cover the landscape with for guarding things like oil pipelines, fence lines, and parking lots and allows for fewer human casualties. So, you always thought that if you ever needed a job, you could always take a low paying security guard job? That may not always be the case in the future. Expect to see more robot security guards watching your every move and while giving you the freedom to search out higher paying jobs.

Are poker bots raking online pots?

Are poker bots raking online pots? 09/23/2004 08:41 AM

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Gambling in real life and then doing it online are two totally different things. When you gamble online, you have a lot risk involved. Are you being cheated, who are the other players and will your information end up on some bulletin board someplace? The main issue that MSNBC brought up is about the common use of computer players called “bots”. Are they a liability?…

Updated PHP Spider Trap for Rogue Bots

Updated PHP Spider Trap for Rogue Bots 06/29/2004 03:26 PM
"When the file getout.php is accessed, it opens your .htaccess file and appends the visitor's(bad bot) ip address to the list of banned ips."

New White Paper: Bots, Blogs and News
Aggregators

New White Paper: Bots, Blogs and News
Aggregators 08/13/2004 10:31 AM
I have just completed my latest research white paper titled "Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators" and this 20 page research paper lists many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to do information and knowledge research about bots, blogs and news aggregator tools currently available the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (1.47MB) at the below link from the Virtual Private Library™:

Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators a White Paper by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.
http:// virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/botsblogs.pdf

Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators
http://www.BotsBlogs.com/

MSNBC - Are poker ��bots�� raking online
pots?

MSNBC - Are poker ��bots�� raking online
pots? 09/22/2004 04:26 AM
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Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators
Presentation and White Paper

Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators
Presentation and White Paper 07/28/2004 11:16 AM


Bots, Blogs & News Aggregators Presentation and White Paper
http://www.botsblogs.com/

This site is for the white paper, video and sources that I deliver in my "Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators" presentation. If you would like me to deliver this presentation to your company or organization feel free to contact me for additional information and availability dates.

Reading, Writing, and Robots: kids build
bots at CeBIT

Reading, Writing, and Robots: kids build
bots at CeBIT 05/26/2004 10:20 AM
StreetTech has some great snapshots of the robot-building competition between local high-schoolers in NYC, called NYC FIRST, which exhibited at NY CeBIT. (Thanks, Nate!)
Link

Workshop: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators

Workshop: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators 11/18/2003 04:23 PM
Workshop: Current Happenings on the Internet: Blogs, Bots and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.
Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches
http://www.palmbeaches.org/

Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, author, speaker and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of blogs (weblogs), bots and intelligent agents and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here.

Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2004

Location: Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches, 401 North Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Re: current leading bots used in drone
armies [June/July 2004]

Re: current leading bots used in drone
armies [June/July 2004] 07/15/2004 03:10 PM
Jan Knutar (Jul 11 2004)

current leading bots used in drone
armies [June/July 2004]

current leading bots used in drone
armies [June/July 2004] 07/10/2004 03:32 PM
Gadi Evron (Jul 08 2004)

Workshop: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A.

Workshop: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A. 02/12/2004 03:25 PM
Workshop: Current Happenings on the Internet: Blogs, Bots and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.

SAE Alumni Club of Southwest Florida

Presentation Sources
http://BotsBlogsPrese ntation.Blogspot.com

Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here.

Time: 7:30pm

Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Location: Port Royal Country Club, Naples, Florida

Speech: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A.

Speech: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A. 05/20/2004 06:58 AM
Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Blogs, Bots and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.

Rotary Club of South Miami

Presentation Sources:
http://BotsBlogsPrese ntation.Blogspot.com
SearchingTheInternet.info< /a>

Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here.

Time: 12:15pm

Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Location: Holiday Inn, University of Miami, 1350 South Dixie Highway, Coral Gables, FL 33146

V2N33 August 16, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs
and News Aggregators

V2N33 August 16, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs
and News Aggregators 08/16/2004 04:38 PM

Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators White Paper

This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. August 16, 2004 V2N33 discusses my latest white paper titled Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest white paper. View the site that discusses and makes available this free white paper:

Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators
http://www.BotsBlogs.com/

November 11, 2003> Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet - Bots, Blogs
and News Aggregators Streaming Video

November 11, 2003> Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet - Bots, Blogs
and News Aggregators Streaming Video 11/11/2003 11:40 AM
This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (November 11, 2003 V1N24) is dedicated to his latest lecture. Click on the below link to view a brand new 90 minute streaming lecture presented by Marcus P. Zillman at Florida Gulf Coast University titled Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. A complete listing of all the latest URLs created by Marcus P. Zillman is available at the Links By Marcus™ link listed below:

Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators - 90 Minute Lecture by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.
http://www.in-sightstudios.com/

Links By Marcus™
http://www.LinksByMarcus.com/

A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most
Advanced Bots

A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most
Advanced Bots 06/25/2004 04:54 PM

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Virtual PC 7 The first major update to
Virtual PC since Microsoft bought the
emulation program from Connectix

Virtual PC 7 The first major update to
Virtual PC since Microsoft bought the
emulation program from Connectix 01/03/2005 07:57 PM
MacWorld Jan 3 2005 11:05PM GMT

Microsoft Virtual Server beta available
for download

Microsoft Virtual Server beta available
for download 02/17/2004 06:18 AM

The Virtual Mobile Virtual Network
Operator From 7-Eleven

The Virtual Mobile Virtual Network
Operator From 7-Eleven 04/27/2004 05:27 PM
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are nothing new. Virgin, both in the UK and the US, has been quite successful creating their own mobile phone carrier, despite not having a network of their own, but simply handling the branding and management, while leaving all the technology issues to a network operator partner. So far, most MVNOs seem to be targeting the youth market (often with "pre-paid plans"), and considering just how lucrative that market seems these days, it's no surprise that plenty of others want into the market. However, operating the whole MVNO is probably a lot of work, so now we're getting to the point where you have virtual MVNOs (VMVNOs) who will do all the work for a company, and simply slap their brand on the final product. That seems to be what's happening with convenience store 7-Eleven, who has announced plans to sell pre-paid mobile phones and service under the "Speak Out" brand - though, all the work appears to be done by Ztar Mobile. Other retailers are quickly expected to follow. Wal-Mart is at the top of the list, with Costco and Home Depot also apparently considering their own mobile phone offerings. The idea is to target younger users, or those with bad credit histories, who can simply pick up a phone at the store, and use it until their minutes run out, at which point they can top it up again - back at the store, of course.

HotFix Watch: Stop error message when
you install Virtual PC Additions and SMS
client components on a Windows NT
4.0-based virtual machine

HotFix Watch: Stop error message when
you install Virtual PC Additions and SMS
client components on a Windows NT
4.0-based virtual machine 09/08/2004 07:55 PM

Virtual Universe 0.42 (Virtual World
Server)

Virtual Universe 0.42 (Virtual World
Server) 01/28/2004 06:54 AM
A platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.

Virtual Universe 0.39 (Virtual World
Server)

Virtual Universe 0.39 (Virtual World
Server) 12/02/2003 03:47 PM
A platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.

Virtual Universe 0.38 (Virtual World
Server)

Virtual Universe 0.38 (Virtual World
Server) 11/02/2003 10:51 AM
A platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.

Virtual Universe 0.49 (Virtual World
Server)

Virtual Universe 0.49 (Virtual World
Server) 08/15/2004 09:31 PM
A platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.

Virtual machine shootout: Virtual PC vs.
VMware

Virtual machine shootout: Virtual PC vs.
VMware 08/01/2004 11:39 PM
Ever wondered which virtual machine product was right for your needs? Ars puts VMware and Virtual PC through their paces to determine which VM gives you more bang for the buck.

Virtual Universe 0.46 (Virtual World
Server)

Virtual Universe 0.46 (Virtual World
Server) 06/26/2004 04:00 PM
A platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.

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