| Thinking about this more, this could be automated to some degree. You could have a bot that listens and responds when key words appear somewhere online. You could use Google's API for when it's bot finds something of interest to you "As it happens" This would only get you so far. What if a user has a question? How will you help them out if it's a bit. The solution? Write API's for every site that you want to use. You can either scrape every site for responses that fit your criteria, or let google do the digging for you with the "as it happens" notifications which would indicate that you have to scrape that site for the information. If the information you get from the site is something you want to respond to, you can. - - - Holy fucking shit. I just described a system that would allow for you to use all websites as inboxes for chat messages. - - - Refine: With this early model, we would have one program on our machine that would understand X websites. It can parse user comments directed at us from a website (A). It can send responses back to A, and so on. Now, users on Program X can chat with theoretically any
person on any website (A, B, ...), but users of website A can only chat with other people on website A OR people using Program X. Why doesn't everyone use program X? Because it does not exist yet. |