Another late night, another IM bot...Someone suggested off-line it would be nice to have an IM bot that pushes news to them automatically, without you having to request it. So I sat down last night and implemented something like this (pretty raw in its current state):
- you contact the bot to
Good work, I'll have to try it out later, but I've been looking for somthing like this, so thanks, and keep up the good work.On 09/02/06, Mario Menti
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Another late night, another IM bot...Someone suggested off-line it would be nice to have an IM bot that pushes news to
I'm waiting to receive my first hourly newsflash, but it certainly looks
cool.
News have a desktop alert application you can download
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3533099.stm) but it would be good to
translate the breaking news emails
(http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/email/breakingnews) into IM
vijay chopra wrote:
Yeah, I've seen the breaking news alerts thing, it's a bit bloated and
intrusive, that's why I like the look of this IM bot. When all the bugs get
ironed out, maybe the Beeb could look into making it official?
The bot doesn't seem to work for me - always offline?
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I'm still at uni, so I havn't tried it yet, but there's no way it can be worse or more bloated than the official BBC 'breaking news' application; espicially as I keep google talk running anyway.
On 09/02/06, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
vijay chopra wrote: Yeah, I've seen the breaking
On 2/9/06, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bot doesn't seem to work for me - always offline?That's odd, they all seem to be online OK.. which network are you trying, and which client? The bots should be set to auto-authorise new contacts, and should automatically show their status. If
Mario Menti wrote:
That's odd, they all seem to be online OK.. which network are you trying,
and which client? The bots should be set to auto-authorise new contacts, and
should automatically show their status. If anyone else can't see them
online, please let me know..
It's the [EMAIL
I couldn't see your TV listings bot as online when I used GTalk , however when I tried using it, it worked fine. Hope that helps.On 09/02/06, Mario Menti
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On 2/9/06, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bot doesn't seem to work for me - always offline?That's odd,
On 2/9/06, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I couldn't see your TV listings bot as online when I used GTalk , however when I tried using it, it worked fine. Hope that helps.Thanks Vijay - I've noticed this a few times with the Talk client, also with human non-GTalk jabber clients. Sometimes
On 2/9/06, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] one that isn't working. The News Flashone does.Strange, that one looks online as well. In general it's certainly possible for the bots to go offline (either by being kicked, or network/connectivity issues), plus they're
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 11:39 +, Mario Menti wrote:
Someone suggested off-line it would be nice to have an IM bot that
pushes news to them automatically, without you having to request it.
So I sat down last night and implemented something like this (pretty
raw in its current state):
It's
Thanks for everyone's feedback with this.A summary of suggestions received includes...- only showing headlines once (the current format is showing the news items most recently updated, so the same stories may re-appear if they've been updated, a little like hourly network news I guess)
- being
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