   Need a Programmer to help design XBoxLive gamertag system on our site
  I'm looking for a programmer to help design a system that works with Xbox Live that I can integrate into our website www.BringIt.com.  This website allows its users to play their favorite video games safely and securely online for CASH.  I'm interested in working with someone and learning how exactly we can set up an area on our website at registration where other gamers can refer their friends to site by using their gamertag, and that referral would send an automated message to that person's gamertag via XBL.  Could you do that?  How would you go about it?    This would be a paid opportunity assuming the logistics sound feasible.  Feel free to reply on this thread or e-mail me at asmith@bringit.com.  Thanks,
  To communicate with Xbox Live! from the outside, you have to be a Microsoft certified partner, which means you first have to have an Xbox development contract/kit (which is hard to get, and requires NDA and payments of 5-digit sums of money), but after that you need to pass a separate, Microsoft-internal review to start working with the Live! team to communicate with the Xbox Live! datacenter team. After doing that, you have to host your servers in the Live! datacenter, and pay Microsoft for that hosting. One of the few titles that have managed to do this (get the "outside world" to talk to Xbox Live!) is the Shadowrun RPG.Once you have the business development issues all taken care of, you might want to start looking for a programmer, but my prediction is that you won't get that far. Especially if the reason for connecting is to send XBL messages -- I can see how Microsoft would just totally nix that idea, because of the spam potential.;Cross post.   