The MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger teams are hosting a BOT authoring contest. Prizes range from an Alienware dual core Opteron to an LED binary watch.
To win the contest what you need to do is write a BOT using one of three third-party SDKs and hosting services. Entries will be judge equally based on user interaction, usefulness, creativity, and use of multiple Windows Live services.
At first glance I thought the contest sounded kind of cool. What about a Tablet PC-minded BOT that you can ask how to draw various animals–and it shows you, ink and all? However, none of the prizes jump out at me nor do I see in the SDKs what type of “ink”-slash-picture support there is. I see that at least one SDK can send voice snippets so I imagine GIF images packed with ink is supported, though I don’t see it.