Verbots Online Service Discontinued effective August 31
http://www.verbots.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3636

Verbots Online closing down at the end of August
http://www.verbots.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3637

> http://twitter.com/mendicot/status/245479984272134144

As of yesterday, the cloud hosted http://VerbotsOnline.com ceased operation; however, their desktop version lives on at http://Verbots.com :-(

> http://twitter.com/mendicot/status/245481032273506304

You can read more about the history, ups and downs, of Verbots (Verbal Robots) on their new “Official Verbots Blog” http://verbots.blogspot.com ..

> http://twitter.com/mendicot/status/245483094625366016

Reading Wikipedia .. Verbot (Verbal-Robot) http://goo.gl/YOxVl .. originally developed by @TeamToad & @thenar ..

> http://twitter.com/mendicot/status/245483747733041152

Watching video .. “TEDxMunich - Peter Plantec” http://youtu.be/7BR5r2TL1uM .. @thenar on Verbots, Virtual Personalities & Virtual Humans ..

> http://twitter.com/mendicot/status/245484459116359680

In honor of Conversive VerbotsOnline going out of business .. I’ve added a new Meta Guide webpage “Best Verbots Videos” http://bit.ly/T3e8UB

> http://twitter.com/mendicot/status/245485914623725568

Conspicuously absent from Twitter, Verbots parent company Conversive, Inc http://conversive.com can be found on LinkedIn http://goo.gl/k2D10

> http://twitter.com/mendicot/status/245487086201864192

Alternatives to Conversive VerbotsOnline include .. @bot_aco .. @chatbot4u .. @mycybertwin .. @pandorabots ..

> http://twitter.com/mendicot/status/254637894289993728

Matt Palmerlee @mpalmerlee is looking for help to open source a simple text only version of VerbotsOnline via github http://goo.gl/JzxkJ ..

> http://www.conversive.com

The latest chapter in the Conversive VerbotsOnline saga now has the VerbotsOnline parent company, Conversive, merged in some way with Avaya.  “Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, contact centers, networking and related services to companies of all sizes around the world.”

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya

I think it’s interesting how other chatbot systems such as Lots-A-Bots and RunABot come and go, but Pandorabots, a free open-source-based website (free hosting) just goes on and on.

Yes Verbot Online closing down… But ! A nice man named Mike built a kind of
Verbot light. It’s just a first little test but that works without voice and animations
but that works… C# Server platform Windows. See here:
http://chatterbots-jeanneton-fr-athena-gb.org.uk/index.html
Athena speaks English and it’s French for Jeanneton.
Friendly.
Sylvain.

FYI, I’ve just written a new blog post about what I’m up to this year, as a result of the shut down:

A New Website For A New Age: GaiaPassage.com
http://www.mendicott.com/2013/03/a-new-website-for-new-age-gaiapassagecom.html

Before downloading the latest version of the engine Verbot and all additional files disappear. Here
is a recent address where you can download the latest motor:
http://www.glumsoft.com/software-29140-verbot.html
And here find various help files;
http://www.verbots.com/forums/downloads.php
Friendly.
Sylvain