Cool bot!

A reader of this blog, Bruno Nery, sent me a link to a very cool bot he wrote called rcc. It lets you register yourself as an "expert" on various topics and routes questions about topics to the experts on them. It's an excellent example of a simple, useful tool built on top of XMPP -- I'd love to see more things like this done by third parties. Google Talk is a small team and we don't have time to do even a tiny piece of the cool stuff that XMPP enables -- and the developer community at large has many more ideas about cool stuff than we do!