APIs Love to Chat
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The document discusses the evolution and current landscape of chat technology, highlighting statistics on daily active chat users and message volumes. It outlines the history of chat applications from the 1970s to the present, mentioning key platforms and community contributions, including development around APIs and chatbots. Additionally, it presents information on the growth of developer engagement in the chat ecosystem and features the Hitch API assistant as a resource for building chatbots.
APIs Love to Chat
- 1. APIS LOVETO CHAT BRUNO PEDRO NOVEMBER 2016
- 2. ABOUTME • 1995: Founded the Portuguese national IRC network • Since 2004 has been building hundreds of API integrations • 2015: Co-founded Hitch, API community & support platform Bruno Pedro@bpedro
- 3. PEOPLE LOVETO CHAT • 7.4 Billion people • ~3 Billion Daily Active Chat Users • 28.2 Trillion Messages per year • Each user sends ~25 Messages per day sources: BI Intelligence, Statista, eMarketer; values for 2015
- 4. METCALFE’S LAW Utility Users Utility = Users2 BBS IRC ICQ WhatsApp Slack
- 5. BRIEF HISTORYOF CHAT 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Community Memory BBS UNIX talk ICQ AIM Jabber Google Talk IRC WhatsApp Slack
- 6. DEVELOPERS LOVETO CHAT • 18.2 Million developers • Sharing code • Exchanging experiences • Building chat bots • Learning about APIs sources: IDC; values for 2013
- 7. API LEARNING 49% source: Hitch Survey, 2016 Learning Discovery Community Documentation Other
- 8. TYPES OF CHATBOTS Slash command Conversational Intelligent Stateless Semi-stateful Stateful
- 9. ELIZA • Created in 1964 • NLP / pattern matching • Conversational • Semi-stateful • Passed the Turing test
- 10. APIS LOVETO CHAT 200 150 25 3RD-PARTYINTEGRATIONS
- 11. TYPES OF INTEGRATIONS Productivity Development Support Fun
- 13. HITCH API ASSISTANT ❤+ + =
- 16. THANK YOU.