This reminds me a bit of an interesting story on outsourcing news articles. It was on This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/468/s...

here's the making of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA4QWwaweWA

done. i wasn't aware i could do that, thanks!

thank you, i used the 'share' button from the verge's website to get the link and apparently it doesn't work well.

i understand what you're saying, but any phone could be modified to run a script like that, including windows phones or iphones. the point of the contest is to highlight the out of the box/official feature it has. if you open up the contest in your way, then really it's just a battle of hardware specs (what device can snap a picture and upload it the fastest).

im sure there are any number of ways someone could beat the system using scripts or other prepared methods, but it would be stupid of MS not to think of this before hand and put it in the fine print.

i mean, writing a script would probably be seen as cheating in most eyes anyways, not just microsoft's.