{"id":1118,"date":"2016-01-07T05:38:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T21:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/07\/facebook-plans-to-let-developers-build-bots-for-messenger-report-says\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T05:38:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T21:38:46","slug":"facebook-plans-to-let-developers-build-bots-for-messenger-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/07\/facebook-plans-to-let-developers-build-bots-for-messenger-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook plans to let developers build bots for Messenger, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zuck-messenger\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA2L2RmL3p1Y2ttZXNzZW5nLjMxNTI5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/615a2f04\/19a\/zuck-messenger.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Facebook+plans+to+let+developers+build+bots+for+Messenger%2C+report+says&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F06%2Ffacebook-chatbot-messenger-report%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F06%2Ffacebook-chatbot-messenger-report%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>2016 may turn out to be the year of the bots.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is reportedly working on a plan that would allow developers to build chatbots to run inside of Messenger. The news comes weeks after a report that Google may also be working on a <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/22\/google-ai-messaging-app\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">new bot-based<\/a> messaging service.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/08\/100-best-iphone-apps\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The 100 best iPhone apps of all time<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The latest rumor, which <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/01\/05\/facebook-messenger-bots\/\">comes to us<\/a> from <em>TechCrunch<\/em>, says Facebook is working on a &#8220;Chat SDK&#8221; that enables developers to build bots that would allow Facebook users to access shopping, travel and other services through conversations in Messenger<\/p>\n<p>Note that this different than M, the <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/08\/26\/facebook-m-assistant\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">artificially intelligent assistant<\/a> Facebook is creating for Messenger. Though M can do many of the tasks bots could complete \u2014 make a restaurant reservation, for example \u2014 the idea here, it seems, is to allow Facebook&#8217;s partner developers to build their own bots that users could chat with inside of message threads to complete tasks. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/06\/facebook-chatbot-messenger-report\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/social-media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Social Media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/apps-software\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Apps Software<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/apps-and-software\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Apps And Software<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/0jCS-RpBUW4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 may turn out to be the year of the bots. Facebook is reportedly working on a plan that would allow developers to build chatbots to run inside of Messenger. The news comes weeks after a report that Google may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/07\/facebook-plans-to-let-developers-build-bots-for-messenger-report-says\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,132,73,1,48,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apps-and-software","category-apps-software","category-facebook","category-other","category-social-media","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}