I stumbled across this today while slacking off and thought some other people might find it interesting. It is basically a contest to see what people can do with the Open AIM APIs. I know there are some talented programmers on here that may be able to do some very cool things with these APIs. I believe there are multiple $10,000 and $500 prizes.
For more info check out: http://www.topcoder.com/openaim/
or
http://www.topcoder.com/openaim/?mod...c&d1=learnMore
Hope someone finds this useful/interesting.