Invasion of the Robots winners!


Posted by absorbation on Mon 27 Nov 2006 (17:50 GMT) (4441 views)
Invasion of the Robots was a competition inspired by the huge success that was the World's Best App. However Messenger bots did not seem to up get as much attention as activities and games, but that didn't stop entries flooding in. The competition itself went from May 15 to September 15 this year, and over the past few months the winners have been analysed for the chance of winning some great prises.

Mess.be got the exclusive here, and so I am directly quoting them below (I've left out the 3rd prise winners):

GRAND PRIZE WINNER:
Yousef El-Dardiry's LiveBot (add livebot@msgweb.nl).

A last minute submission, but the bot's original features like Extended Activities (use specially built activities with more than two people), the Virtual Earth-2-Display Picture converter and WebIM (show your status or chat directly via your site) were good for an Alienware MJ-12 7550 Workstation worth $10k. Juzzi also won last year's World's Best App contest so this guy is on a roll... I wonder if he has any more bedroom space to stock all his prizes?

FIRST PRIZE WINNER:
Ushapriya Narasimhan's Mother Nature (add admirenature@hotmail.com).

This bot wasn't responding at the time of writing, but it's supposed to help you find and research U.S. national parks closest to you, learn what to plant and what's in season, find out how you and your family can help on various save-our-planet projects, etc. A noble bot indeed, and worth a $5000 Home Entertainment System according to the judges.

SECOND PRIZE WINNERS:
Spleak by IMT Labs (add spleak@hotmail.com),
Mobile Record bot by Casey Chesnut (add MobileRecordBot@hotmail.com),
Virtual Secretary by Magnon Jean-Christophe (add secretarybot@hotmail.com),
Dr Phile Knowledge by Robert Johansson (add processbot@hotmail.com),
and Comtec Travel Bot by Aled Jones (add comtec_bot@hotmail.co.uk).

An Alienware laptop, backpack and a $200 Thinkgeek gift certificate is heading their way.


Full list of the winners on the MSDN Forums
Invasion of the Robots website

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Comments:


Comment by ruzsa
Posted on Wed 31 Oct 2007 (14:43 GMT)
DcList - HubReg /hublist registry/


Comment by .Lou
Posted on Mon 27 Nov 2006 (23:20 GMT)
That 3 is supposed to be a heart...your dodgy system =p


Comment by .Lou
Posted on Mon 27 Nov 2006 (22:03 GMT)
Lucky Juzzi, too bad he isn't on WLM much anymore, I would congratulate him. 3 Offline Messaging
SECOND PRIZE WINNERS:
Spleak by IMT Labs (add spleak@hotmail.com),
If juzzi and Ushapriya beat Spleak, they are good, really good

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