The Simon Laven Page has expanded its chatterbot coverage at . Chatterbot Central now offers 38 chatterbots in seven categories. The site also includes two chat rooms (one inhabited by bots), a discussion group, a news wire, archives of chatterbot papers, and a tutorial about creating your own chatterbot. [Simon Laven , comp.ai, 10Jan99.]

The Simon Laven Page has launched a free Chatterbot Newswire. Sign up at . [Simon Laven , comp.ai, 17Jan99. David Joslin.]

The New Alife Database (or search engine) has tripled the number of alife sites it indexes. . Related AI databases have also been updated. All rely on page titles and meta tags rather than full page text. [Ariel Dolan , comp.theory.cell-automata, 12Jan99.]