{"id":523,"date":"2008-08-31T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2008\/08\/31\/useful-google-talk-bots-that-you-must-add-as-friends\/"},"modified":"2008-08-31T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T16:33:49","slug":"7-useful-google-talk-bots-that-you-must-add-as-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/31\/7-useful-google-talk-bots-that-you-must-add-as-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Useful Google Talk Bots That You Must Add as Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Written by Amit Agarwal<\/a><\/p>\n You can do lot of interesting stuff with Google Talk like get alert notifications, save bookmarks to delicious, manage web calendars, set reminders, write blogs, and so much more.<\/p>\n Such features can be easily integrated into Google Talk through ‘bots’ which, in simple English, are like virtual friends who are online 24\u00d77 and will always respond with a smile to your questions or requests.<\/p>\n Here are some of the most useful ‘bots’ that transform Google Talk into a more useful program:<\/p>\n 1. imfeeds@gmail.com – Add this IM Feeds<\/a> bot as your Google Talk buddy and you’ll be able to read any blog or website<\/strong> that syndicates content via RSS feeds.<\/p>\n To subscribe to a website in GTalk, simply send a new IM message that says “sub abc.com” where abc.com is the address of the website \/ blog you want to read inside Google Talk.<\/p>\n 2. friendfeed@imified.com – This secret bot lets you post to FriendFeed<\/a> from Google Talk. You may submit either hyperlinks or text messages.<\/p>\n 3. imified@imified.com – This imified bot<\/a> turns Google Talk into a real powerhouse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n You can post bookmarks to delicious, send messages to Twitter, submit blog entries<\/a> to WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger, manage events in Google Calendar, shorten long URLs, run whois<\/a> and so on.<\/p>\n 4. inezhabot@gmail.com – Like IM Feeds, iNezha<\/a> bot helps you read feeds inside Google Talk but this is slightly more versatile. For instance, you can simply say “digg” and it will show a list of all feeds that match that search term so you don’t have to type (or copy-paste) feed addresses.<\/p>\n 5. Translation<\/a> – This is a free service from Google that helps you translate words from a foreign language into your native language. Just add the relevant bot (e.g. hi2en@bot.talk.google.com for Hindi to English or en2hi@bot.talk.google.com for English to Hindi) as your buddy, send him a message and it will get translated instantly.<\/p>\n 6. Set Task Reminders<\/a> – If you need to remember something important, Google Talk can send you reminders<\/strong> for that event.<\/p>\n