Thanks for your advice. At work I do tech support so I create an AIM bot that gave people quick answers to the most frequently asked questions. It was menu based and everyone in the company loves the bot, I also included a company directory , we have over 200 employees and remembering everyone's extension or even email addresses was difficult so I built a company directory using AIM.

thank you for all the ideas you are giving me.

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Ask YC: What do you scrape? How do you scrape? 18 years ago

I use curl, wget and links to retrieve data from sites and then I filter it with old sed and grep.

I created a mashup of AIM + Flicker.

If you use AIM 6 or AIM lite send a message to MyPictureBuddy

then send a message and enjoy.

basically You type a keyword and it gots to flicker and retrieves image information to display pictures right inside your AIM chat session.

I also have another Bot that parses HackerNews XML and then display it on the chat session. The bot name is

HackerNewsYC

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