Comments on: AIMing to Upset Users

By: Zack Belch

Zack Belch — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:25:08 +0000

I think that’s the whole idea Chelle. You’re 100% right, it sucks. And of course the bot is really just a tie in to get you to head over to their site where you can watch 300 flash ads as you wait 20 minutes for your local schedule to load.

Yech. Keep it.

By: Zack Belch

Zack Belch — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:19:55 +0000

It would be great, if anyone I knew actually used Jabber. Truth is, most people still use AIM for the IM needs, and it’s a hard habit to break; especially when you have to all be on the same client.

Jabber’s great, but the truth is no one uses it (no one being relative to the sheer volume of users on other services).

By: Chelle

Chelle — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:58:04 +0000

Aside from my initial shock and disgust over this when saw my own contact list notification, I thought perhaps it would be handy to have the moviefone bot. Not having to go to the website to see what’s playing locally would be quite handy indeed. However, that’s not the case. You have to go through hoops to find out that you must type “4 whateverzipcode” to get local listings then the function to see showtimes doesn’t work at all.

By: Rainer

Rainer — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:34:20 +0000

A good occasion to consider a switch to open instant messasing infrastructures like jabber/xmpp? There should already be enough trustworthy free jabber providers out there. This should be a good starting point.

By: Ton's Interdependent Thoughts

Ton's Interdependent Thoughts — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:05:49 +0000

Not like this AOL!

Today when I started up my instant messaging services (I use Trillian to access Yahoo, AIM, MSN, GoogleTalk, and ICQ) a message screen popped up. AOL had added two Bots to my buddy-list, MovieFone and ShoppingBuddy. So I could…