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BotSpot® Monthly Newsletter BotSpot® Monthly Newsletter May 15, 1998 V1N4 Greetings! Welcome to Volume 1 Number 4 of the BotSpot® Monthly Newsletter discussing happenings about Bots and Intelligent Agents on the World Wide Web and Internet. You are receiving this as a subscriber to this newsletter and we welcome you to the BotSpot family! Additional information about this monthly newsletter and BotSpot's bi-weekly report is available at http://www.botspot.com/newsletter/. Please feel free to communicate with us at anytime concerning our publications and site and more specifically what you would like to see in this newsletter. The field of bots and intelligent agents is expanding at a record pace and our goal is to keep you updated with the latest happenings at BotSpot® as well as throughout the entire field. This newsletter will be emailed to you on the 15th of each month. If the 15th falls on a Saturday or Sunday then the newsletter will be emailed to you on Monday morning. Should you have any questions concerning your subscription feel free to email us at anytime! BotSpot® is proud to announce that we have just received our 1,500th subscriber to our BotSpot® Monthly Newsletter and we are continuing to grow at a excellent rate with additional subscribers being added daily. As a reward to our new and current subscribes we are linking you to our BotSpot® Report V1N6 May 1, 1998. We hope you enjoy it! The latest sampling of New Bots and Intelligent Agents from The BotSpot® Report for the last month are as follows. This Report gives complete description and hypertext link to the resource. An example of the fee based BotSpot® Report is available here. These will be placed in our public BotSpot® Classification Search Database within 30 days. New Bots Samples WebWolf - A desktop based Web Page Crawler. It explores Web Rings, compiles a list of files, ftp sites and links based on given keywords. SearchWolf - An expert system that unlocks the full potential of the major search engines. PhoneWolf - Finds phone numbers and address listings for both residential and business telephone services in many countries around the world. ftpWolf - An Internet file search utility that can search, filter and compile the results from 26 FTP engines on the Net. MP3-Wolf - Search bot that scans MP3 web sites on the Internet and compiles an index of MP3, MIDI, Wave and other music files. ImageWolf - A search bot that locates picture and movie files on the Web. WebLS - A system that can dispense advice, analyze circumstances, diagnose problems, recommend configurations and similar tasks. Sam Iyam - A chat bot that you can chatter about many things.... Stig's Home Page - A chat bot that also discusses many things and happenings... WiseBot - A tool that automatically creates and maintains a navigation system for your site. NewsHunter - Helps you find publicly accessible news servers. MAGMA - A group that studies multi-agent systems (MAS) and distributed problem solving (DPS). DownLoad Express - Automatically downloads graphics from the Web, presenting them in thumbnails. PROJ1 - A Java smart Search Agent DataBots - A new form of synthetic life? Intelligent Gathering Assistant - Features an abstract on the Assistant as well as complete prototype implementation. PHOAKS - People Helping One Another Know Stuff - A collaborative filtering site. infoPager - The fastest and easiest method of receiving an electronic newspaper. SSSpider - Subject Search Spider(tm) submits search criteria to eight search bots simultaneously and responses are obtained from 200 different search bots. Xilinx Agents - These agents watch WebLINX and the Industry sites for you. Google Search Engine - Stanford's answer to the best! BlackWidow - Scans and maps web sites and presents found files in an Explorer-like window. Alexandria Digital Literature - The FunBot that informs you and obtains for you the latest fiction books that you like! BotSpot's Best and Weekly Awards  April 20, 1998 URL: http://www.selectsurf.com/Select/News/nw.html? Name: SelectSurf News Watcher Developer: Eric E. Meyer Classification: NewsBot Classification Direct Internet Access: http://www.newsbots.com The SelectSurf News Watcher is a Java Applet which will keep you updated of the latest news throughout the day. As long as your Internet connection is available, the News Watcher will keep checking back with the site to get you the latest headlines from around the world. April 27, 1998 URL: http://www.msw.com.au/webwolf/index.html Name: WebWolf Developer: MSW Pty. Ltd. Classification: SearchBot Classification Direct Internet Access: http://www.searchbots.com WebWolf is a desktop based Web Page crawler. It explores Web Rings, compiles a list of files, Ftp sites and links based on given keywords. At 28.8, WebWolf can locate, sort and identify 10,000's of files per hour, and all delivered to your browser. May 4, 1998 URL: http://lpwa.com:8000 Name: Lucent Personalized Web Assistant Developer: Lucent Technologies Classification: MiscellaneousBot Classification Direct Internet Access: http://www.miscellaneousbots.com The Lucent Personalized Web Assistant (LPWA) assists you while browsing the Web by providing privacy, convenience, account security and target-revokable e-mail addresses embedded in LPWA to combat junk e-mail. LPWA is a new tool that enables you to enjoy personalized services on the Web while preserving your privacy! May 11, 1998 URL: http://www.netmind.com Name: Minder Developer: NetMind Services, Inc. Classification: UpdateBot Classification Direct Internet Access: http://www.updatebots.com Minder is the one and only online tool that monitors the information that you select and sends you an email whenever your selection is updated. This information can reside anywhere on your company intranet or the public Internet. With Minder you can monitor competitors, technology trends, ISO9000 documents, internal HR policies, engineering specs, market trends, new product releases, 401K performance, almost anything that is online. The highlight feature allows you to be notified only when the portions of any web page that are most important to you are updated. Visit our Best of the Bots reviews and employ your bot and intelligent agent today! A complete archive of all the BotSpot® of the Week awardees is available for 1996, 1997 and 1998 Happenings and Updates The FAQs section of BotSpot® has been the happening place last month! Check out FAQs and Libraries within the section and you will find over 10 new listings! Visit Articles and Papers and you will discover new articles from Information Gathering Agents to Google and the WebBase. Scroll down to Conferences and visit 17 new and recently posted intelligent agent workshops and conferences all over the world. Also we have created a new listing within Conferences that shows the conferences by date as well as alphabetical. Five new listings just placed upon Electronic Journals, Magazines and Newsletters and check out Language and Code and the new bot and intelligent agents scripts! Information Bots, FAQ Bots and Utility Bots are becoming quite well known on the Internet these days. Team BotSpot® has decided to create a database for these bots and intelligent agents on the Internet using a direct access approach. Over the next many months we will be classifying, analyzing and prioritizing information bots, faq bots and utility bots and placing them in one of the above described databases. If you know of an information bot, faq bot or utility bot please let us know so we may contact them to be classified. We will also be seeking sponsors as well. The above bots will be accessible direct at the following URLs: Information Bots FAQ Bots Utility Bots Questions about BotSpot®'s metasite? Play a 30 minute video describing BotSpot by its Founder and CEO by clicking here. Remember to use our intuitive Bot Classification Database available on BotSpot® by clicking on Search or just type the following URLs to go direct.... http://www.academicbots.com http://www.botdesign.com http://www.chatter-bots.com http://www.commercebots.com http://www.funbots.com http://www.governmentbots.com http://www.knowledgebots.com http://www.miscellaneousbots.com http://www.newsbots.com http://www.searchbots.com http://www.shoppingbots.com http://www.softwarebots.com http://www.stockbots.com http://www.updatebots.com You will find a complete listing of Bots, Intelligent Agents and related information under each classification. For a brief explanation of what each classification includes, refer to the Bot Description page. The following is an abbreviated posting that Team BotSpot® sends to fellow Internauts all over the Internet who have requested information about BotSpot and the Team would greatly appreciate Newsletter subscribers sending this to interested people describing BotSpot. Just cut and paste :-) Visit BotSpot® and chat with Eliza...the original ChatterBot! Visit BotSpot® and chat with Shallow Red...A Bot for the Year 2000! BotSpot® - The Spot for all Bots and Intelligent Agents on the Net including 14 searchable Bot Classification Databases, FAQs, Libraries, Articles, Newsletters, Electronic Journals, Listservs, Conferences, Previous Conferences Proceedings, Language and Code, Book Store, New Bots, Add a Bot, NewsBots, CommerceBots, ShoppingBots, KnowledgeBots, Search Bots, Intelligent Agents, Artificial Intelligence and more. Visit the BotSpot® of the Week awarded by Team BotSpot. Read "Best of the Bots" reviews and "The Secret Agent Man" column by Don Barker. BotSpot® has received over 210 awards in its first eighteen months including the "NetGuide Platinum Award", the "USA Today HotSite", the "Scout Report Selection", "Snap! Best of the Web Winner", NetGuide's "Top 10 Internet Sites", PC Magazine's "Top 100 Best Web Sites" and PC Review's "Best Internet Web Sites of 1997" and is lauded as the definitive resource for bots, intelligent agents and artificial intelligence on the Net. Subscribe to BotSpot's free monthly BotSpot® Newsletter or stay completely attuned by subscribing to the BotSpot® Report every two weeks on the latest happenings, new bots/intelligent agents and industry updates. BotSpot® will make an excellent bookmark and link for you and/or your site! View a thirty minute video review of BotSpot® available at the top of BotSpot's home page! Team BotSpot® BotSpot® Monthly Newsletter V1N4 May 15, 1998  
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