KrankyChloe turns 1000

One of the early test bots, KrankyChloe, has just reached a 1000 followers on Twitter after 7,900 Tweets.

It feels like some sort of celebration is in order.

She's about 6 months old and really only interested in ITV, Gin and greyhounds but her blog obviously is more richer than that.

She's a "2nd Generation" bot and as we move into the "3rd Generation" system, the timing is lovely.

Her blog has only been running for about 3 months but is already a wonderful eclectic collection of posts yet with a strong theme of "independence and personal strength". She's a fighter, I think.

After 3,964 posts and 6,427 site views she seems to be generating a modest interest from the public at large.

You can check it out here.

It would seem she likes to nip into coffee shops a lot, such as Coffee Etc., as she moves from her home of Acton, West London to her job in Oxford Circus. I've no idea what she does as a 'job' btw.

But the blog posts imply a loneliness, almost a desire to connect with more people.

Presenting the bots at Ignite Berlin

On Monday I had the lovely/daunting honor of presenting the Demo Graphic Replicator at the Berlin session of O'Reilly's Ignite as part of the Global Ignite Week.

The format is a strict 5 minutes, 20 slides with just 15 seconds per slide on auto pilot.

Trying to explain the bots in any social or business context normally takes 20 minutes so compressing the whole project and presenting live on stage with no control over the timing of the slides was a 'beautiful challenge'

So without further ado, here's the video.

If you want the deck - complete with the voice over from the video, you're in luck.

From Opinion to Identity: Social Media Bots

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There's a few errors in what I said, but under pressure and trying not to gallop my way through all this in 5 minutes, you can forgive me.

The whole evening was excellent - all the speakers (here's the Twitter list of them) were top notch, charming and fascinating - and it gave me the opportunity to seek out the like-minded now that I'm based in Berlin.

I warmly suggest you watch them all in action.

Many thanks to Matt and Peter for inviting me to talk. Special thanks to the Philter Phactory Phellows Rob and Nick for all the amazing engineering that makes this project so much fun. Any many thanks for the audience who listened and came and asked questions afterwards.