http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/2009/08/command-lines-of-the-future-and-simplicity-of-integration/ Reserving the right to be wrong Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:03:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/2009/08/command-lines-of-the-future-and-simplicity-of-integration/comment-page-1/#comment-473 Twitter Trackbacks for DJ’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Command lines of the future, and simplicity of integration [pipetree.com] on Topsy.com Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:48:08 +0000 http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/?p=727#comment-473 [...] DJ’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Command lines of the future, and simplicity of integration www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/2009/08/command-lines-of-the-future-and-simplicity-of-integration – view page – cached This is a bit of a hand-wavy post, but I wanted to get my thoughts down. Recently there’s been a spate of interest around interaction with devices, applications and systems … via a chat-style interface. This is nothing new, of course. Bots have existed on the IRC networks for a long time. The venerable Purl, an infobot, was a particular favourite of mine. When instant messaging (IM) came along, we had a new chat interface - which took the form of one-on-one or conference (’group’) chat. With Jabber (XMPP), ‘Chatbot’ was a favourite in the various conference rooms. Back in late 2002, I even wrote about Chatbot in a 2-part series “The Command Line of the Future” (”Is Jabber’s Chatbot the Command Line of the Future?” and The “Command Line of the Future Part 2: Expanding Chatbot’s Repertoire“): — From the page [...] [...] DJ’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Command lines of the future, and simplicity of integration http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/2009/08/command-lines-of-the-future-and-simplicity-of-integration – view page – cached This is a bit of a hand-wavy post, but I wanted to get my thoughts down. Recently there’s been a spate of interest around interaction with devices, applications and systems … via a chat-style interface. This is nothing new, of course. Bots have existed on the IRC networks for a long time. The venerable Purl, an infobot, was a particular favourite of mine. When instant messaging (IM) came along, we had a new chat interface – which took the form of one-on-one or conference (’group’) chat. With Jabber (XMPP), ‘Chatbot’ was a favourite in the various conference rooms. Back in late 2002, I even wrote about Chatbot in a 2-part series “The Command Line of the Future” (”Is Jabber’s Chatbot the Command Line of the Future?” and The “Command Line of the Future Part 2: Expanding Chatbot’s Repertoire“): — From the page [...]

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