http://www.metafilter.com/tags/smarterchild Posts tagged with 'smarterchild' at MetaFilter. Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:01:19 -0800 Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:01:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/18149/ The bad news: <a href="http://www.smarterchild.com/">SmarterChild</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/8555">one of the first</a> instant message bot applications, <a href="http://www.smarterchild.com/offaim.shtml">is dead</a>. The good news: <a href="http://www.activebuddy.com/">ActiveBuddy</a>, the folks that created SmarterChild, will be releasing a toolset to create new bots. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.18149 Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:01:19 -0800 activebuddy bots im instantmessages smarterchild mathowie http://www.metafilter.com/8555/ SmarterChild, the <a href="http://activebuddy.com/r/22">ActiveBuddy</a> bot that can give you the news, tell you how your stocks are doing, play games and tell you to stop using profane language all at the same time, is finally live on AOL's IM system. Add him/her/it to your buddy list and have fun! (Isn't it interesting how moving backwards to good old lightning-fast ASCII is suddenly being considered the wave of the future? Those of us who have been forced into trading <a href="http://www.washington.edu/pine/">PINE</a> for <a href="http://mail.yahoo.com/">Web-based email</a> against our will have known better the whole time.) tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.8555 Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:10:11 -0800 imbot smarterchild aaron