Yet another competition has been set up by Microsoft using MSN and Windows Live Messenger, this time involving the use of bots.
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.
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
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 SDKWin a wink, or even a Logitech microphone-headset ... new MSN Messenger competition
on 26 Apr 2006 (1866 views)
on 26 Apr 2006 (1866 views)
MSN have launched a new competition with prizes including a MSN/Windows Live Messenger wink or two sets of Logitech microphone-headset.
Enter the competition, primarily for UK messenger users, at www.hellomessengerquiz.co.uk and simply answer the three very easy questions. The quiz is based around the audio feature of messenger that allows you to have real voice conversations.
Although multiple entries are accepted (you can keep going until you get one and then you can keep going further until you are selected to be entered into the prize draw for the headsets) it is limited to one wink and prize draw entry per entrant/Hotmail address (but I don't see why you'd want the wink more than once anyway - it's not that great either). There are 720 winks to be played for each day with one being given out every 2 minutes (25,920 winks in total over the entire game period). The prize draw, being drawn on May 20th 2006, will select 100 participants who will each win two Logitech Internet chat headsets worth approximately 50 euros each.
Hello Messenger Quiz homepage
Quiz rules
Enter the competition, primarily for UK messenger users, at www.hellomessengerquiz.co.uk and simply answer the three very easy questions. The quiz is based around the audio feature of messenger that allows you to have real voice conversations.
Although multiple entries are accepted (you can keep going until you get one and then you can keep going further until you are selected to be entered into the prize draw for the headsets) it is limited to one wink and prize draw entry per entrant/Hotmail address (but I don't see why you'd want the wink more than once anyway - it's not that great either). There are 720 winks to be played for each day with one being given out every 2 minutes (25,920 winks in total over the entire game period). The prize draw, being drawn on May 20th 2006, will select 100 participants who will each win two Logitech Internet chat headsets worth approximately 50 euros each.
Hello Messenger Quiz homepage Quiz rules
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