on Sat 30 Jun 2007 (17:08 GMT) (4795 views)
As the numbers indicate, this event was a tremendous success and the goal was reached: to organize the biggest event ever seen around MSN/Windows Live Messenger. More prizes than originally announced were distributed and all the winners should receive their prize by the end of the month of July. If your name was listed on msgpluslive.net and you don't get your prize by then, please contact me for verification. I'll soon post another news article about what's coming in the universe of Messenger Plus! (something exciting :-) so in the meantime, enjoy your summer vacation if you have any!
The 'something exciting' could mean anything, but I have my suspicions it will be a hot new feature. It's great to see the contest end on such a good note, it became ridiculously popular, and I guess there is nothing else to say except congratulations to the winners.
View Patchou's announcementThe third week has now started with the following prizes up for grabs:
3 Nintendo Wii, games and controllers 1 PlayStation 3 and game 1 XBOX 360 Elite and game 40 Messenger Plus! shirts and mousepadsSo get playing!
View: Results of the Contest's 2nd week
The winners of the prizes are posted on the official Messenger Plus! Live website, with a cool heat map of every click.
Of course, the contest has now started its second week, so get playing! If you haven't played the contest, why not download Messenger Plus! Live and have a go? You never know, you might get lucky.
View: Results of the Contest's 1st weekon Sun 27 May 2007 (18:09 GMT) (1904 views)
The contest requires no expert knowledge: it is 100% random. Think of it as finding a needle in a haystack. Prizes are going quick, and an XBOX 360 Elite has already been won! So what are you waiting for, download the latest version of Messenger Plus! Live and start winning yourself some very cool prizes!
Full featured scripts (big scripts):
- 1st Prize - Screenshot Sender
- 2nd Prize - Music Now Playing
- 3rd Prize - UNeed Script
Simple yet useful scripts (small scripts):
- 1st Prize - SendTo
- 2nd Prize - ReadThis
- 3rd Prize - WLM Preview Box
Most original scripts:
- 1st Prize - Stickynotes
- 2nd Prize - YouTube Viewer
- 3rd Prize - Plus Mapper
Patchou has also disclosed that there has been about 230,000 installations a day of Messenger Plus! Live since last month. Congratulation to everyone that had their scripts accepted! Remember, everyone that got accepted will be getting a free Messenger Plus! t-shirt.
Patchou's Forum Post
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 websiteHowever, Marie is not Spleak's real name, in fact no one guessed correctly (it's a con!) so I guess we will never know her real name:
Nobody managed to get Spleak's name completely correct although we received tons of suggestions in the name competition! We actually got so many that it nearly crashed our servers trying to get all your guesses out.
View the competition pageSpleak, probably the most intelligent chat bot for MSN and Windows Live Messenger is hosting a competition for you to get in on winning a PSP. Basically, talk to Spleak and say "name competition" and she will ask you 10 questions about her and using her dairy entires and biography you need to guess the answers. Once you do that you need to guess her name, and whoever gets it right wins the PSP (hint, it's not Spleak).
Good luck, it does take some time to do the questions and the competition ends August 16th. I don't think there are that many entires so far so you could be within a chance of winning.
Visit Spleak's website View the competition pageThe competition is (or will soon be if not already) available to residents of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Ireland.
The contest involves finding three of the green Windows Live Messenger buddies which are (badly) hidden around the site. Once you have found one click on it and answer the equally easy question that comes up before looking for the next. When you have collected them all fill in your details and submit your entry - it's as easy as that.
Select your nationality/language/country of residence for the competition Be automatically taken to your default language's competition pageAs we already mentioned, this new contest aims to get people to develop MSN/Windows Live Messenger chat bots, using the 3 free SDKs provided.
However, all the bots currently submitted and in the gallery are made by Microsoft employees - I guess they are just trying to motivate the rest of us!
So far the 3 bots are:
- Encarta Instant Answers - encarta@botmetro.net
"I am a smart computer who can bring you the Encarta info you want right in your IM window! Here are some questions you can ask me:
- I want to see the map of Italy.
- When was Leonardo da Vinci born?
- How many calories are there in an orange?" - "W" - dubyabot@hotmail.com
"Quotes from our fearless leader." (a George Bush impressionistic bot, answering in Bushisms) - Santa Robot - santa.robot@hotmail.com
"Santa's digitial helper! The Santa Robot is currently on vacation, but when he return he'll help you find gifts and get into the holiday spirit. In the meantime you can find out a little bit about where he is and how that well deserved vacation is going." (note: unfinished as yet)
Invasion of the Robots contest bot gallery Invasion of the Robots contest homepage
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