NEW Shopping Mania Continues
The fastest-growing category of bots is, by far, shopping bots.
We've just added eight more, some of which are quite
intriguing. For instance, ActiveBuyersGuide
simulates your buying decisions to help you find precisely what
you want. iChoose is a software
bot that follows you to on-line stores and automatically finds the
best deals. SmartShop looks for
total value, including promotions and shipping costs.
NEW Paying
For Your Purchase
You may need a better job to pay for all that online
shopping. If that's the case, try the new JobAnywhere.com, which scours career
sites, online want ads and newsgroups for just the job you want --
or need.
NEW New Gamebot Section By popular request, we've launched a new section listing
gamebots. It's a daunting task to list all gamebots, so we
need your help to grow the list. If your favorite gamebots
aren't listed, let us know.
In the meantime, enjoy!
NEWS Mortgage Bot Launched
Finding the best mortgage deal can be baffling, frustrating and
expensive if you fail. A new site has been launched,
however, that scours the Web for the best mortgage deal,
extensively comparing details such as closing costs and interest
rates.
Watchfire
About To Release Macrobot
Watchfire, which recently updated its Linkbot
Pro tool for Web designers, is about to release Macrobot
1.0. This is a Web site testing tool that allows developers
to record and replay testing scripts for Web applications. No
programming skill is necessary to create basic scripts. Read
more in this report from our colleagues at Internet Product Watch.
Special Report: Shopping For
Shopping Bots
Surly sales people, endless Jingle Bells Muzak, tired feet
... a good shopping bot will help you avoid holiday hassles.
We examined seven leading shopping bot sites to discover which
ones find the best bargains. Also, look at the newly updated
Shopping Bot page.
Bots That Buy Low, Sell High.
More and more people are playing the market. If you are one
of them, your best weapon is bots that track down investment
information. We just posted a new one, NavigateOne that scours the Web
for information about stocks. Another, justQuotes, is even more
thorough. Check them out as well as our entire list of stock bots.
SECRET AGENT
MAN Bots Working Together
BotSpot's Secret Agent Man confesses that he rarely finds other
agents with whom he gets along. Still, that doesn't stop him
from reporting that work is progressing to make bots work
efficiently together, each performing a specialized job.
That has the potential to greatly increase the power and
flexibility of computing agents.
Things That
Think: A Special Report Thirty years ago, people
laughed at television's Secret Agent Maxwell Smart when he talked
into his shoe phone. Who could know that Smart was presaging
serious work now being done to make computing so ubiquitous that,
someday, even our clothes will compute.
Bots By Category
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