Like hacking, bots used to be a largely negative technology term. As hacking has evolved into positively charged developer hackathons and web ‘mashup’ hacks, the term shook off much of its malevolent image. Bots have also grown up. Too long they have been associated with evil botnets and harmful web crawlers designed to inflict damage upon us, the users. Bots can also be good.

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