On the 8th of September last year the World's Best App was launched giving programmers a competition to see who could code and design the best game or activity for use in MSN Messenger. It became very popular and we saw some very cool entries, which I still use today for fun. But now that has ended a new competition has begun involving bots, despite the fact that some prises have not yet been given out for the previous competition winners.
Microsoft is challenging developers worldwide to create conversational robots, or BOTs, for MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. The most original, useful robots collect $40,000 in total prizes.
So if you think you're able to create a unique robot for Messenger, give it a shot and you might win a kick-ass $10,000 Alienware workstation!
Now that sounds very cool and creating your own bot is not even that hard really, and rest assured you will receive updates of some great entries right here. However, the project has been critised because the SDK's needed for creating the bots contain old functions, and newer funtions have not yet been added, but I am sure good entries will be out soon enough.
Not really too much news on it yet, visit the website to find out more, and hopefully the contests should start heating up. $40,000 worth of prises sure will help.
Helpfully, Inky and TheBlasphemer are reviewing each bot platform SDK at Messenger Blog.
View the Bot Invaders website View the SDK reviews at Messenger Blog Read the review for Akonix L7 Builder SDK
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