AIM Buddy 'Bots' Draw Complaints
Yeah -- when I logged into AIM yesterday afternoon (even via my Trillian client) after getting home from work, there they -- I just deleted them. :-)
An AP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Two new buddies greeted chatters on America Online Inc.'s instant-messaging service this week, but they were not universally welcomed.
Some AIM users complained that the buddies — to promote AOL's movies and shopping services — amounted to an intrusion. In a Web journal entry, Mike Masnick of Techdirt Inc. compared them to "buddy list spam."
The new buddies are known as bots. Users who send a message to the "MovieFone" buddy are automatically given options to check movie showtimes. The "ShoppingBuddy" offers ideas for gifts and information on deals. Sponsored by Gap Inc., products from its stores get top billing.
posted by Fergie @ 11/17/2005 10:19:00 AM
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