{"id":24447,"date":"2016-04-08T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/chatbots-are-coming-next-stop-facebook"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:59","slug":"chatbots-are-coming-next-stop-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/chatbots-are-coming-next-stop-facebook","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Chatbots\u2019 are coming; next stop Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chatbots-are-coming-next-stop-facebook.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fw.soundcloud.com%2Fplayer%2F%3Fvisual%3Dtrue%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fapi.soundcloud.com%252Ftracks%252F238989379%26show_artwork%3Dtrue&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fusatodaytech%2Fthe-future-of-messaging-apps-the-end-of-google-as-we-know-it&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.sndcdn.com%2Fartworks-000140711995-2euulc-t500x500.jpg&key=205dfc3e29a54717b61d110ab0ac5a3d&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=soundcloud\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I expect to see more and more online consumers having their own \u201cPersonalized\u201d bots that mimics them online. Granted at the moment we see the more generic versions of a personal assistant, etc. However, I do believe the next major push will be providing the consumers the flexibility of personalizing their bots that mimics them in their communication styles, interaction style, interests, personalities, etc.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Will there be a bot for that?<\/p>\n<p>That is the question on many lips ahead of Facebook\u2019s annual software developer conference next week in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts expect Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to open up Messenger\u2019s platform to \u201cchatbots\u201d and launch an online store for them. TechCrunch reported Thursday that Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/04\/07\/facebook-chatbots\/\">will help<\/a> software developers build \u201cchatbots.\u201d Facebook declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2016\/04\/07\/facebook-f8-chatbots\/82754766\/\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2016\/04\/07\/facebook-...\/82754766\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I expect to see more and more online consumers having their own \u201cPersonalized\u201d bots that mimics them online. Granted at the moment we see the more generic versions of a personal assistant, etc. However, I do believe the next major push will be providing the consumers the flexibility of personalizing their bots that mimics them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67759,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447\/revisions\/67759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}