Introducing Blue Cloud Mirror, a Fun IBM Cloud Showcase  

By Niklas Heidloff | 1/23/19 11:15 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Blue Cloud Mirror is a game where players need to show five specific emotions and do five specific poses in two levels. The faster, the better. Play the game. It only takes a minute. All you need is a webcam and a Chrome browser.

IBM Think 2018 Highlights for Developers  

By Niklas Heidloff | 3/23/18 10:17 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Last week IBM hosted the Think 2018 conference in Las Vegas which is IBM’s flagship conference that combines previous conferences like InterConnect and World of Watson. Below is a list of announcements and news that I, as a developer, like most.

Creating Alexa Skills with OpenWhisk and IBM Watson  

By Niklas Heidloff | 11/16/17 3:43 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

My first code pattern (formerly known as developer journeys) has been published on developer.ibm.com/code. The pattern describes how to build Alexa skills with OpenWhisk. Rather than using intent and entity identification from Alexa, Watson Conversation is used. This allows developers to define conversation flows declaratively and developers can reuse conversations that are available in the Bot Asset Exchange.

How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript  

By Niklas Heidloff | 10/16/17 12:11 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Last week Ansgar Schmidt and I gave a session at Codemotion How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript. Below are the slides with screenshots of our demos. We demonstrated how to write a Node.js application that uses Botkit to connect with Slack and that uses IBM Watson Conversation as natural language processing service.

Node-RED Samples for IBM Watson IoT Hackathon  

By Niklas Heidloff | 9/11/17 7:31 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

Recently I gave an one hour webinar to help developers to prepare for a hackathon related to IBM Watson IoT. I demonstrated Node-RED and coded live some sample flows.

Introducing the Conversation Inspector for IBM Watson  

By Niklas Heidloff | 7/31/17 9:01 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

My colleague Ansgar Schmidt and I have developed a new tool for developers to simplify building conversational user experiences with IBM Watson Conversation. The tool displays JSON data of REST API requests that is sent between applications and the Watson Conversation service and it allows developers to modify outgoing JSON messages.

Understanding Natural Language Text via IBM Watson  

By Niklas Heidloff | 4/5/17 12:39 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

One of the newer IBM Watson offerings that I really like is Watson Knowledge Studio. It basically allows identifying information in unstructured data. Below is a quick overview of the Knowledge Studio functionality.

Using IBM Watson Discovery to query Unstructured Data  

By Niklas Heidloff | 4/5/17 12:15 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

In my previous blog entry I described how to use Watson Knowledge Studio to create models to identify information in unstructured data. These models can be used by the Watson services and offerings Watson Discovery, Watson Explorer and Watson Natural Language Understanding. Below is a quick intro how to use Watson Discovery to query unstructured data.