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Looking for a job? We’re hiring!

Get a job in Second LifeAs an on-growing and one of the biggest companies in Second Life, SmartBots is always looking for new crew members to work in a cool, positive and friendly environment – with great opportunities, Fair-pay (one of the highest in Second Life), raises, promotions and of course, the most delightful experience!

Currently, we have various vacancies available that you may check out on our Careers web-page for more information.

We do hope to hear from you very soon!

BETA Test the new Android App!

appHello Customers!

An Android application is currently being developed which allows you to control your SmartBot from your android device anywhere without logging into your SmartBot account! Features include:

  • Bot Management (Login/Logout bot)
  • View all groups available to your bot
  • Send Group Notices
  • Send Group IMs
  • And more (at users requests after app launch)!

If you are interested in beta testing this app please fill out the following Google form: http://goo.gl/forms/KIblkRiO3U

Please note that the App is not being developed by SmartBots, but by Chevonn Edelmann, an employee of the company.

Upcoming system base update

Upcoming SmartBots updateWe will be rolling a big system update today. This post is to announce the changes (with some technical details revealed in italic).

This is a mostly backend update (as a user, you won’t see any changes yet), but it is an important base for further feature updates.

SmartBots is being developed since 2009, and some pieces of code have been written in 2007-2009. This legacy code has been rewritten to modernize and unify the code base. Unification makes support and further development easier, faster and efficient.

Today’s update affects the very base of the system, so we appreciate if you report any issues you may see to our support crew (use the website Live Chat to contact us). The changes has been tested by our developers both on development and production servers. However, there’s always a possibility to miss something very special.

As mentioned above, this update makes developing new features easier. The next feature update is to allow Trusted Managers to access bot addon modules: your managers will be able to manage Support Bot and Sim Governor, set up bot Waypoints etc. Also, the whole Trusted Manager management section will be rewritten.

“Trusted Managers” section is one of the pages created back in 2009. Based on old and and overwhelmingly complex template engine, it is a pain to get it updated. We are re-doing this section from scratch.

Thank you for running your business with SmartBots.
More cool features planned, stay tuned!