Posts Tagged ‘jabber’

IM Bots at Work and Play

11 Superb IM Bots

Still using your IM just to chat with friends?You can add various bots as buddies and double up IM as a notepad,translator,twitter application and a lot more.
Here is a list of some must have bots:

1.Ping.fm
IM:- pingdotfm@gmail.com
This bot lets you update your status at over 20 sites simultaneously  you may have subscribed including twitter,facebook,blogger,wp etc.

2.Google Translator
IM:- en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com
A very useful utility meant to translate multiple languages.May prove to be very handy when you have friends speaking different languages.Available for many languages.

3.Digg
IM:-  digg@bot.im
Get all the top stories from digg’s home page in a very organized manner having all the categories

4.gtalkbots
IM:-  bots@gtalkbots.com
Its a cool bot which saves and shares your status messages and also helps u in maintaining a cool notepad.

5. joketeller
IM:-  joketeller@bot.im
Just ping this bot with any word whenever you feel like  and get a nice joke to share.

6.iNezha
IM:-  inezhabot@gmail.com
A simple RSS reader.All you need to do is to type in the name of the website whose updates are required and within no time it sends the updates.

7.MayaFile
IM:- talk@mayafile.com
Can be used to store and retrieve short notes.

8.Games on gtalk
IM:- games@gtalkbots.com
Some simple games to play with the rest of the world.Make sure you type fast!

9.IM feeds
IM:- imfeeds@gmail.com
Can be used to get feeds of various web pages.

10.timer
IM:- twitter@twitter.com
Just add timer to your Twitter friend’s list and then add twitter@twitter.com to your buddy list in Gtalk. If you want to get a reminder after 30 minutes, send a direct message to twitter and a reminder will pop up in your Google Talk after 30 minutes!

11. Askme bots: this site provides a large collection of bots which can be used for countless little things.The best part about it is that one can create his own bot using this service!

Use twitter wih IM

Around The web world in 10 secs This is the way I use Twitter service and my message comes back to me after travelling through the internet in less than 10 secs.
I use the services of twitter along with jabber,ping.fm and google.
I type the message in the Pidgin IM to a buddy named twitter who is actually a bot at the ping.fm server.This message is sent to the jabber server which forwards it to the google server(talk.google).From google it is forwarded to ping.fm which is a service to connect the social networks.Ping.fm transfers the message to twitter.Twitter updates the RSS and this RSS is forwarded to my opera browser.From there it is caught by the KDE RSS reader on my desktop finally flashing the original message for me.All this is less than 10 sec\s and all for free!!!!