Comments on: IM Bots: (Almost) Real-Time Blog Chat via IM

By: Trueman

Trueman — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:10:00 +0000

Since there are many IM (Instant Messaging) services around the world, such as GTalk, Skype, AIM, etc, and most people are using more than one of them, it will be more productive if you can manage all of your IM services with one tool.

By: Economic and Culture Observer (Lenno Cornish)

Economic and Culture Observer (Lenno Cornish) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:29:28 +0000

Hi. I guess – if they connect blog with IM – then the NET will be sunk in the endless blah-blah. Also – the more rarely you write – may be the better you do it:)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:09:12 +0000

I think there’s room for both on a blog, IM to quickly chat with whomever else happens to be on the site, and comments that are meant to be a lasting contribution to the blog. People like leaving comments, too, I don’t think you’d necessarily lose that by adding an IM widget.

BTW, try some of that EmergenC stuff, great for fending off upcoming colds.

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:12:34 +0000

Zaptxt will provide IM alerts of RSS feeds. (via marshall kirkpatrick)

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:39:29 +0000

You could require a minimum number of characters, that would eliminate the ‘yea’ and ‘cool’ comments, so people will add something of value. Of course, as I’m typing this, I’m thinking “how long is my comment?” … or just a notification via IM that sends you a link back to this page, where you can read an leave another comment.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:39:27 +0000

If you had a checkbox right here that said “Notify me of Followup comments via IM ” I’d use it. If it was a centralised service like coComment then my website URL could be tied to an IM username.

By: Colin Dowling

Colin Dowling — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:54:56 +0000

I think an excellent add on/tool for bloggers would be a real-time thread for comments, a hybrid between standard comment threads and IM. Integrating that tool in with standard IM apps like AOL, MSN, Yahoo, etc. would be an interesting way to bring traffic back to a comment pool.

Perhaps the way to do it would be to mesh the RSS feed of comments with IM, essentially making the IM client an RSS reader of sorts.