Chatbots.org Business News

In April 2009 Chatiquette was published in Dutch by Floris van der Veen, founder and CEO of LiveCom. In addition to this book I would like to give some suggestions to companies who are currently using chat and show them the potential functionality of chatbots.

If you decide to use chat as one of your communication tools to interact with your customers, you might like to consider using a chatbot. A chatbot can filter your customer responses and give your customers chat services 24/7.

Three months after release 2.0, we are very proud to present version 2.5 of Chatbots.org.

Version 2.5 features all chatbots and/ or related AI awards, a special ‘feature profiles’ section highlighting everyone who has willingly shared their AI knowledge and a brand new design of the Chatbots.org header, including animated favicon and cute Twitter animation. In addition, the speed of the website has considerably increased.

How creative will intelligent life be? Will computers be creative? Will chatbots be creative? In my opinion, computers will be more intelligent, more creative, and will have more humour than any human in the world. It’s just a matter of time.

Do you enjoy digging around the Internet spotting just those academic in-depth articles who nobody ever seems to discover, AI pearls who deserve more attention? Can you think outside of the box? Do you have proven experience as a creative writer attracting different kinds of people? Act now!

Do you love AI and SF books? That’s great! We’ve just started to build our library, so we could be of assistance to each other! We’ll need objective book summaries and subjective book reviews of great AI and SF books (and even movies).

GG Pro, the professional version of the IM client Gadu Gadu,  is a feature packed, multi protocol instant messenger (ICQ, MSN, Skype, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber ready) for enterprises. It offers shared contact list and chat history, SSL encrypted communication and chat statistics. It enables fast and intuitive IM contact between all the employees, allows creating secure (encrypted with SSL) private and business chats and conferences using one of many protocols.

Yahoo Messenger Blog: Have you tried out Yahoo!‘s new home page yet? This latest version gives you even more ways to customize the page with your favorite news, sites and services.

For the new Beta page, we worked with the team behind yahoo.com to create a new Yahoo! Messenger module. This new version provides a quick view of which friends are online, plus you can easily IM them right from the page. Here’s a quick look at the features of the new Yahoo! Messenger on yahoo.com:

In a recent issue of Technology Review Magazine published by MIT listed Intelligent Virtual Agents as one of the 10 emerging technologies of 2009. Intelligent virtual agents are able to interact intelligently with users, reduce support costs, encourage self-service and customer loyalty, and serve as a branding tool for the enterprise. They provide a unique, interactive and personal way for users to get answers and assistance on your website, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This press release seems to be sponsored by Botégo.

A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that can kill autonomously.

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve appointed Jetty Van Kooij as our primary editor of Chatbots.org.