I pointed Marcelo from akibot to our conversation. He is very interested and will come back to us. Martin
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Richard Hirsch [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 08:30 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Collaboration with #ubimic > > I was looking at the akibot offering last night and it does look > interesting. Depending on the current akibot architecture, it might be > relatively easy to create an ESME bot based on their existing > technology. They could market their engine as a standalone component > and offer it to customers who want to track twitter or other > microblogging systems such as ESME. The bot could analyze the > messages and either create new messages or integrate with back-end > applications. It would be a loosely-coupled integration. > > We talked about having tightly-integrated plugins a while back but > never looked at it in more detail. > > We should keep akibot in mind and as things develop maybe you connect > us up to see how we might collaborate. > > D. > > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Martin Böhringer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Dick, > > > > the current status on our student research is as following: I have a > student > > who works on the LEGO thing, the hardware is all built up and the > software > > part of the project starts tomorrow with a kickoff. Another student > is > > working in his bachelor thesis on the "text analysis in information > streams" > > topic. A bachelor thesis is not that big but I hope at least that we > get > > some insights in what is possible and what not. He also should look > at > > public available APIs (like opencalais and similar) and test them > with > > microblogging-like texts. > > > > I know from the akibot guys (akibot.com) that they want to go in a > similar > > direction like us (supporting a ubiquitous microblogging scenario > with their > > artificial intelligence microblogging bot). So this might be a good > future > > collaboration opportunity, too. > > > > What I would do next is looking for a student who wants to work > intensively > > on the SAP/ESME scenario. Give me a view weeks for that. > > > > Vassil has a good point here with the business value. We are all > working in > > microblogging and therefore say "hey, tweeting SAP systems are really > cool". > > However, "normal" people might not have this enthusiasm. Until we > have real > > demo systems running little mockups (GUI prototypes) might do it. We > have it > > on our agenda to create a #ubimic presentation where we state out the > > motivation and the benefits. I hope to give some answers to the > business > > value topic in this presentation. > > > > Cheers > > Martin > > > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > >> Von: Richard Hirsch [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. November 2009 23:28 > >> An: [email protected] > >> Betreff: Re: Collaboration with #ubimic > >> > >> Hi Martin, > >> > >> I see that you are doing some pretty cool stuff (for example, "Text > >> Analysis in Information Streams: Status Quo and Future Perspectives > >> (http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/wi2/wp/en/2009/08/10/text- > >> analysis-in-information-streams-status-quo-and-future- > perspectives/)". > >> What about including a text analysis aspect to the collaboration? > >> > >> D. > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Hi Martin, > >> > > >> > Like I said last week when we first found out about #ubimic, you > seem > >> > to think along the same lines as the ESME team. So I can't find a > any > >> > reason why we shouldn't cooperate. > >> > > >> > IMHO David has defined very well the differentiating > characteristics > >> > of ESME: real-time responsiveness and actions. Actions also have > some > >> > vague similarity to some Google Wave bots. More importantly, > actions > >> > are important in many integration scenarios, which is the goal of > >> > ESME. > >> > > >> > What I'm eagerly awaiting is a description of some of the benefits > of > >> > the "aggregated data from people and things" in different > scenarios, > >> > but I guess that's one of the goals of the collaboration ideas, > >> right? > >> > > >> > Best Regards, > >> > Vassil > >> > > > > > > >
