Bot parties

In the book "Magical A-Life Avatars", I described a scenario where it would be possible to clone your personality and character onto a bot and send it out across the Web to look for other bot clones to bring them back to your own computer for a party. At these virtual parties, your own bot clone could socialise with these other bot clones to find those whose owners would be the kind of people you would like to be friends with or who might make useful contacts.

Although this might sound highly implausible, it was based upon an actual business experiment I'd tried out a few years previously. As this will apply directly to the linking of a client side application and a server side formatted space, it may be worth while running through the background and some of the details of this idea.