Congratulations to everyone who participated in the $100,000 Open AIM Developer Challenge! Here are the nine $10,000 first place winners, and the 20 $500 second place winners as determined by the 5 categories of TopCoder Community Favorite, "Most Innovative" and "Best use of API" as judged by the competition staff, AOL staff favorite and usage.

Congratulations to all of our winners, and T-Shirts are on the way for everyone! Remember, that the $100,000 Truveo Developer Challenge is underway now. If you liked OpenAIM, you're going to love the Truveo Challenge!

$10,000 FIRST PLACE WINNERS

Submission	Handle	TC	Inn.	AOL	Best use	Usage
IM Remote	dhbellol	10	1	1	1	10
IM Loud	dhbellol	18	10	1	1	2
IM Whiteboard	dhbellol	25	1	1	1	4
LinkPreview	roma	9	1	1	10	13
Free2IM	snguyen	3	10	1	10	17
infomess	amiune	10	10	10	10	1
Share-a-Map	dhbellol	8	1	1	1	33
PopsChat	Pops	6	1	10	1	31
FeedReader	velorien	28	10	10	1	7

$500 SECOND PRIZE WINNERS

Submission	Handle	TC	Inn.	AOL	Best use	Usage
IMSpellCheckBot	sb99	18	10	10	10	20
MathSolverBot	jal278	7	10	10	30	11
AIMySQL	novar	4	30	10	10	18
Insta-Sketch	ValD	16	30	10	10	8
LinkProcessor	roma	10	10	10	1	44
QuizBot3000	jal278	23	10	10	30	5
Flaim	novar	23	30	10	1	16
Retyper	roma	33	30	10	10	3
Professional IM Client	sb99	33	1	1	10	42
MathBot3500	amiune	4	10	30	30	14
AlbumShare	amiune	14	10	10	10	48
CodeRemote	velorien	14	30	10	10	28
NewsKibitz	Eeyore	43	10	10	10	23
HotBlueChessPlugin	hotblue	40	10	10	10	27
AnimalSound	aminallam	18	10	10	30	35
MyBot	amiune	18	10	30	30	15
ZhAssist	novar	50	30	10	10	6
BuddiesMap	jacksuyu	17	10	1	30	49
Font Corrector	Gluk	1	30	30	10	40
Gundoff	Rizvanov_de_xXx	2	30	30	10	41

The submission phase for the $100,000 Open AIM Developer Challenge is now closed!

I'd like to thank everyone who participated, I can honestly say we are all overwhelmed at the quality and quantity of great apps that have been submitted here over the last two months.

We received a total of 53 passing submissions, nine of which will be awarded a $10,000 first prize, another 20 will earn a $500 second prize, and everyone who submitted here (even non-passing submissions) will be sent a TopCoder/Open AIM T-Shirt.

We'll be crunching the numbers over the next week, and will announce the winners at the TCO (and on this blog) in Las Vegas on May 15th.

A reminder of the scoring breakdown:

• Usage (20%): Usage will be determined based on usage statistics. It is strictly prohibited to manufacture or attempt to manufacture usage in any way. Usage and activity shall be subject to audit by TopCoder and/or AOL.
• Innovation (20%): Determined by the Competition judges
• Best Use of APIs (20%): Best use of the functionality provided by the Specified Technology
• AOL favorite (20%): Popularity among AOL staff
• TopCoder Community Favorite (20%): Popularity among the TopCoder Community

Voting for the TopCoder Community Favorite will take place on the site, and will open later today. I'll update this post with the link when it's up.

VOTING IS OPEN HERE - CHOOSE YOUR TOP 5 FAVORITE APPS BEFORE MAY 13

Congratulations to all who participated, you've displayed once again that the level of talent and ingenuity in the TopCoder community is second to none!

Good luck!

dh

Plugin Title: Free2IM
by snguyen

"Free2IM (aka AIM Translator) is an AOL AIM plugin that help you chat with the buddies who speak languages you are very weak or even you do not know at all. It's useful for you to practice your foreign languages as well. This first version it supports 13 languages."

How to get it?

1. Download this plugin here.

2. Unzip and execute the installer

3. Restart AIM

Full information & instructions here.

(Prerequisite) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is installed.

How to use it?

After installing Free2IM, we'll see the option "Free2IM Settings" in the actions menus. A page will be appeared after you click the option and will help to adjust the settings. We can enable/disable the translator in both directions incoming and outgoing, as long as we can select the language pair which will be translated.

There is an option to skip translating if the other side is also using Free2IM.

Plugin Title: HotBlueConquestPlugin
by hotblue

"Play HotBlue Conquest with a buddy on AIM! The goal is domination. Control a block by being the last person to close a block. A player who closes a block keeps his turn, allowing him to close more blocks. The player with the most blocks occupied wins!"

REQUIREMENTS: .NET Framework 2.0

URL: http://www.hotblue.com/HotblueConquestPlugin

Application Title: PictureOfWhat
by Eeyore

"PictureOfWhat is a game of mystery pictures with interactivity powered by AIM. You are shown photographs of curious animals, people, places, and things. The game is both simple and hard: try to figure out what the heck you're looking at! Then tell other users what you thought about the picture or the answers. Anyone can play, but only AIM users who log in to the integrated Web AIM interface can post comments."

URL: http://pictureofwhat.com/

Plugin Title: LinkProcessor
by roma

"Do you want to see YouTube video right in your AIM window once your friend send to you link? With LinkProcessor you can do this. And it's not only thing that you can do. How about listen music that your friend send to you again right from your AIM window? With LinkProcessor you can do this"

"You can set up LinkPreview to process any kind of links. So, with LinkPreview you can listen radio, listen music, see video, see images, and it's only default settings. And you can configure it to anything that you want."

Download & Install the plugin here.

Full Instructions here.

Works for YouTube links, mp3's, .xspf, .gif and more.

And don't forget that you can setup other types of links as well, check out settings form for this plugin. But in order to do this, you should be familar with JavaScript regex and HTML. And if you create super cool settings for this plugin and you would like to share it with your friends, just copy APPDATA\acccore\nss\linkprocessor.b64 file to your friends computer.

Application Title: BuddiesMap
by jacksuyu

"BuddiesMap is a Facebook app, which shows your friends' face on the google map, and when you click on the face, you could use AIM to chat with your friends.

The screenshot shows two user, Jack Su (Jack Testertwo) and his friend chat use this Open AIM based Facebook app and AIM client. "

To add this app, use this link: http://apps.facebook.com/buddiesmap/start6.php

Bot Title: AIMVocabBot
by Winner5

"This bot can be used to increase your vocabulary skills. Get to know new words and their meanings."

To Use: Just send an IM to AIMVocabBot to start playing.

Plugin Titile: Gundoff
by Rizvanov_de_xXx

There are a lot of web sites in the internet that may harm your computer. Links on these sites are transmitted via internet messengers frequently. The Gundoff plugin can help you to prevent visiting a lot of them...

You can download the plugin here


Please send all feedback to gundoff.aim@gmail.com

.NET Framework 2.0 is required

Application Name: Professional IM Client
by sb99

"Professional IM Client has the following special features apart from sending and receiving instant messages and managing buddies and groups

1. Listen to Instant messages.
You can Listen to the received or sent instant messages. If you were away for sometime and you have a lot of IMs in your window, just select all the received IMs text and click on Listen IM button. The software will read out all the text for you !

2. RSS Feeds
The client software has RSS Feed reader that let you receive the RSS feeds.

3. Share your desktop's snap with your buddy
You can now show your buddy how your desktop looks ! You can use this feature for fun or for some serious activity. When you are struck up at some point and you wish to communicate to your buddy where you are struck up, just click on a button and your buddy will be able to see your desktop's snap.

4. Inbuilt word suggest
Word suggest feature lets you minimize the number of keystrokes you hit while sending an instant message. Now, you can type a few characters and the word suggest provides you with the best possible words. Just press Ctrl key to let the word suggest type the complete word for you."

UPDATE 5/5: Address Book
Now add manage your friends' information using the address book functionality. You can store and retrieve the address, contact details along with any personal comments about a friend. The search feature lets you quickly retrieve your friends' details.


If you have any comments please feel free to drop a mail to sb99TC@gmail.com

http://sb99tc.googlepages.com/ProfessionalIM.html