Marcus Endicott's Second Life Travel Guide

Lately, I've been working on porting my ByronBot (http://www.mendicott.com/byronbay/) over to the currently popular Second Life (http://www.mendicott.com/secondlife/) 3D virtual world.

My ByronBot is built on the Verbots Online (http://www.verbotsonline.com/) platform.

Metaverse Technology (http://www.metaversetech.com/) has built a Second Life Chatbot product based on the Pandorabots (http://www.pandorabots.com/) platform.

Pandorabots is based on Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, rather than the proprietary Verbot KnowledgeBase files.

The Metaverse Technology S-Bot product combines the Second Life Linden Scripting Language with the Pandorabots AIML.

There is an open source AIML-Verbot Converter tool going from AIML to VKB, but not vice versa....

So, I've been using the recommended GaitoBot AIML editor to recreate the ByronBot KnowledgeBase in Pandorabots AIML.

You should be able to find my new Second Life ByronBot near Byron Bay @ 5 O'Clock Somewhere at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Omega/101/21/22 .

Ideally, the Second Life ByronBot will emulate a tourist information officer, of for instance a DMO (Destination Marketing Organization), inside the 3D virtual world... providing information about Byron Bay, Northern New South Wales, Australia.

Travel Technology History Project: 1991 - 2001

I have started a basic Wikipedia page on Travel technology at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_technology

I am particularly interested in documenting the history of travel technology from the advent of the web in 1991 through the September 11, 2001 attacks, as well as the subsequent rise of immigration technology.

Please contribute and change as necessary!

ByronBot - Byron Bay, Australia

Lately I've been working with chatterbot technology, a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods, using AIML or Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, an XML dialect for creating natural language software agents.

My latest creation is ByronBot (http://www.mendicott.com/byronbay/), which you can ask questions about Byron Bay and the Rainbow Region of northern New South Wales, Australia - where I now live.

Previously, I created the meta-guide geobot (http://www.meta-guide.com/), which knows continents, regions, all countries, all of their capitals, and can provide more such as maps, travel books and cool travel videos - as well as country-specific information about ecotourism and sustainable tourism.

One associate has compared ByronBot with Microsoft's Ms. Dewey (http://www.msdewey.com/), an Adobe Flash-based experimental interface for Windows Live Search.

The difference between a web page and a blog

I would really like for someone to be able to tell me why my green-travel yahoogroup rss feed http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/green-travel/rss is not being indexed by any blog search despite pinging via http://pingomatic.com/ ....

I wrote to http://www.technorati.com/ to ask why and they replied that they don't index mailing lists or forums .... However, http://blogsearch.google.com/ frequently returns messages from http://www.tribe.net/ groups ....