IRC

Lots of IRC communities run a bot so they can access useful features specific to that channel. One fun application is to use a bot like PieSpy to monitor messages being sent within a channel. This can be used to infer a social network in...

If you see a group of people talking to one another in real life, it is reasonable to assume there is some kind of relationship or friendship between them. The same principles can be applied to IRC channels. By drawing lines between users, you ...

You can use them for any number of things: to leave notes for other users, inquire when someone was last seen around the channel, do quick math problems, or simulate dice rolls. But the most important feature of the infobot is undoubtedly its...

PPF is a great tool for gamers using IRC, especially for clans. It has plug-ins for querying some online game systems, game servers, searching, and even for customizing your own triggers. This hack shows you how to go about configuring and usin...

org) plug-in framework built on top of the PircBot IRC API. It provides some basic functionality, such as connecting to IRC, joining channels, and some auth levels for access control. The PPF core itself doesn't really do very much at all, as...

Instead of being made up of just web pages, the Semantic Web uses languages that store information in a way that computers can understand it. Using standard languages like RDF (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar), RDFS, and OWL (http://www...

You were just shown how to create a bot that would load data from a FOAF network [Hack #48] and provide that information via IRC. This hack will introduce some simple extensions to FOAF that will parse information about trust relationships an...

For many people, IRC is more than just a place to chat. Social groups form quite easily in channels; after all, you all share the same interest, right? IRC therefore becomes the natural place to talk to this social group. You may not even know ...