Skype Journal: Skype Emoticons and Music
December 16, 2003 05:14 PMSkyper wants their own Skype emoticons. I don't design emoticons. I have to have a few strategy suggestons that go beyond the brief below which suggests text based emoticons for the text based message portion of Skype.
* add a new social dimension to the exchange
* emoticons must leverage Skype's voice-centric advantage
* create new functionality for responding to the "ringer"
* encourage behaviors that encourage longer connections
* appeal to all age groups
Possiblilities? Simply enable the emoticon core set to be colored. I'm generally blue today, or I'm orange. Skype could stick to standard yellow or make life more interesting. Yeah, I went orange smile, yellow laugh. blue shades and purple wink.... There's plenty of color tests on the web. Skype would open up a whole new genre of web based psychology just by taking the step and then allowing users to create a program based on Luscher's Color Test.
While on emoticons a sample of my Trillian master list suggests some emoticons are missing. eg a quick "on the phone", "caller detective"(for more information or profile), "conferencing". "I'm mobile" - as Skype goes portable.... Rather than answering the call it would be nice to have a quick emoticon text reply along with a possible redirect feature.
Still I can't get too excited when what I really want is to play the music I'm listening to at a lower level to the person on the other end of the line when I answer. Or whenever one party or the other wants to pipe it into the conversation. Like talking in a room with music in the background. Seeing as I can already do this for myself (playing WinAmpat a low volume level and talking) it would be nice to tune in the other person. Playing music for each other then takes on a whole new perspective. It might stimulate some further new emoticons! Conections and potential conference calls will go up exponentially. Shame that is so hard for a phone company to do! Just another reason the phone system is old and tired.
Are you a budding designer with a burning desire to get world-wide recognition for your work? Skype is offering you that chance with a challenge to create new emoticons (graphical expressions) for the Text Messaging portion of the world's fastest growing Internet telephony program. Skype is looking for submissions for 10 emoticons which will be used by millions of Skype consumers all around the world. We will chose among all entries received before January 15, 2004 (23:59.59 Central European Time) and the winner will be named on the Skype homepage and receive a Skype T-Shirt.
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To see a list of Skyper desires for new features see the list at Public Mind. The obvious ones are all there. Not listed are SkypePages, and Caller Id solutions etc. Looking in the forums today I did see a note that the Skype Business Development team apart from being swamped is beginning to release some API details.
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this are all emoticons includet in skype 2
have fun
:) :-) :=) :( :-( :=( :D :-D :=D :d :-d :=d 8) 8-) 8=) :O :-O :=O :o :-o :=o ;) ;-) ;=) ;( ;-( ;=( (sweat) (:| :| :-| :=| :* :-* :=* :P :-P :=P :p :-p :=p (blush) :$ :-$ :=$ :"> :^) |-) I-) I=) (snooze) (|-( |( |=( (inlove) ]:) >:) (grin)(talk) (yawn) |-() (puke) :& :-& (doh) :@ :-@ :=@ x( x-( X( X-( x=( X=( (wasntme)
(party) :S :-S :s :-S (mm) 8-| B-| 8| B| 8=| B=| :x :-x :X :-X :# :-# :=x :=X :=# (makeup) (kate)(chuckle) (giggle) (clap)(think) :-? :? (y) (Y) (ok) (n) (N) (handshake)(skype) (ss) (h) (H) (l) (L) (u) (U) (e) (m) (F) (f) (rain) (st) (#) (sun) (o) (O) (music) (~) (film) (movie) (mp) (ph) (coffee)(pi) (pizza)(cash) (mo)(flex)(^) (cake)(beer)(d) (D)(dance) \o/ \:D/ \:d/ (ninja)(*) (#)(mooning)(finger)(bandit)(toivo)
Posted by: Downforce at April 8, 2006 3:02 PM
:) :-) :=) :( :-( :=( :D :-D :=D :d :-d :=d 8) 8-) 8=) :O :-O :=O :o :-o :=o ;) ;-) ;=) ;( ;-( ;=( (sweat) (:| :| :-| :=| :* :-* :=* :P :-P :=P :p :-p :=p (blush) :$ :-$ :=$ :"> :^) |-) I-) I=) (snooze) (|-( |( |=( (inlove) ]:) >:) (grin)(talk) (yawn) |-() (puke) :& :-& (doh) :@ :-@ :=@ x( x-( X( X-( x=( X=( (wasntme)
(party) :S :-S :s :-S (mm) 8-| B-| 8| B| 8=| B=| :x :-x :X :-X :# :-# :=x :=X :=# (makeup) (kate)(chuckle) (giggle) (clap)(think) :-? :? (y) (Y) (ok) (n) (N) (handshake)(skype) (ss) (h) (H) (l) (L) (u) (U) (e) (m) (F) (f) (rain) (st) (#) (sun) (o) (O) (music) (~) (film) (movie) (mp) (ph) (coffee)(pi) (pizza)(cash) (mo)(flex)(^) (cake)(beer)(d) (D)(dance) \o/ \:D/ \:d/ (ninja)(*) (#)(mooning)(finger)(bandit)(toivo)
Posted by: andrius at April 12, 2006 6:58 AM
:) :-) :=) :( :-( :=( :D :-D :=D :d :-d :=d 8) 8-) 8=) :O :-O :=O :o :-o :=o ;) ;-) ;=) ;( ;-( ;=( (sweat) (:| :| :-| :=| :* :-* :=* :P :-P :=P :p :-p :=p (blush) :$ :-$ :=$ :"> :^) |-) I-) I=) (snooze) (|-( |( |=( (inlove) ]:) >:) (grin)(talk) (yawn) |-() (puke) :& :-& (doh) :@ :-@ :=@ x( x-( X( X-( x=( X=( (wasntme)
(party) :S :-S :s :-S (mm) 8-| B-| 8| B| 8=| B=| :x :-x :X :-X :# :-# :=x :=X :=# (makeup) (kate)(chuckle) (giggle) (clap)(think) :-? :? (y) (Y) (ok) (n) (N) (handshake)(skype) (ss) (h) (H) (l) (L) (u) (U) (e) (m) (F) (f) (rain) (st) (#) (sun) (o) (O) (music) (~) (film) (movie) (mp) (ph) (coffee)(pi) (pizza)(cash) (mo)(flex)(^) (cake)(beer)(d) (D)(dance) \o/ \:D/ \:d/ (ninja)(*) (#)(mooning)(finger)(bandit)(toivo)
Posted by: andrius at April 13, 2006 6:28 AM
Some of them are not useful...better make uprade and add more colorful emotions
Posted by: Andrej at April 15, 2006 1:14 PM
vat the hell, vai there is no other smilies?
Posted by: feeee at April 30, 2006 4:22 AM
(smoke) and (drunk) :D:D:D:D have fun kids!!!!!
VOVCHIUKAI aka RZA_ak-47
Posted by: Vovchiukai at May 14, 2006 2:13 PM
Andrej, it's ozer, not other
Posted by: asa at May 15, 2006 5:17 PM
(headbang) just try it!!!!!
Posted by: Szasza at May 28, 2006 12:26 PM
The (headbang) (smoke) and (drunk) does not seem to work on my pc.
Posted by: Akshay at June 8, 2006 5:17 AM
(toivo)
(headbang)
(mooning)
(smoke)
(drunk)
(finger)
(flag:us) any country from two letter code
(rock)
these are the ones I found :)
Posted by: DOBERMAN at June 16, 2006 2:19 AM
Becouse, you haven't the newest version of Skype :P
Posted by: magdanoz (BG) at June 25, 2006 11:28 AM
Why i Can't see the emoticon (flag:bg) or (flag:us) ?!
Posted by: roni at August 10, 2006 12:29 AM
try (flag:lt) or (flag:us) just change ''lt'' to the country short name. Like lithuania - lt
Posted by: Pr1kolaz at September 1, 2006 6:02 AM
(toivo),(headbang), (mooning),(smoke), (drunk),(finger),(rock)
--- FLAGS ----
(flag:bz)(flag:hu) (flag:ag)(flag:ng) (flag:at)(flag:al) (flag:af)(flag:nr) (flag:om
)(flag:st)(flag:sa) (flag:an)(flag:cu)(flag:sn)
(flag:de)(flag:fr) (flag:ru)(flag:gb) (flag:gr)(flag:bg) (flag:us)(flag:pt)(flag:pr
)(flag:ae)(flag:ag) (flag:ar)(flag:as)(flag:ad)
(flag:nz)(flag:sd)
(flag:by)(flag:ba) (flag:az)(flag:za) (flag:bh)(flag:mn) (flag:pg)(flag:it)(flag:bo
)(flag:bn)(flag:bt) (flag:gf)(flag:br)(flag:tr)
(flag:lu)(flag:ca) (flag:mr)(flag:ci) (flag:gt)(flag:bf) (flag:cn)(flag:cl) (flag:cv
)(flag:ga)(flag:co) (flag:cm)(flag:cy)(flag:cr)
(flag:cd)(flag:gu) (flag:jp)(flag:eg) (flag:dj)(flag:ch) (flag:do)(flag:er)(flag:lr
)(flag:es)(flag:et) (flag:gm)(flag:ge)(flag:gi)
(flag:gh)(flag:gn) (flag:gd)(flag:tg) (flag:gl)(flag:gy) (flag:hn)(flag:bj) (flag:hk
)(flag:ki)(flag:ir) (flag:is)(flag:hm)(flag:is)
(flag:jm)(flag:bb) (flag:la)(flag:lt) (flag:lv)(flag:ls) (flag:lb)(flag:li) (flag:ly
)(flag:mk)(flag:ma) (flag:my)(flag:mt)(flag:mn)
(flag:mq)(flag:md) (flag:np)(flag:na) (flag:nu)(flag:pk) (flag:pa)(flag:pn) (flag:qa
)(flag:sl)(flag:st) (flag:se)(flag:sc)(flag:sg)
(flag:sz)(flag:tw) (flag:tk)(flag:ug) (flag:vi)(flag:ve) (flag:mp)(flag:zm) (flag:wf
)(flag:zw)(flag:tf)
Thats it... have fun!
Posted by: Kudraviqbs (BG) at September 27, 2006 3:49 AM
(bow) is one more :)
Posted by: user at September 28, 2006 5:13 AM
(headbang)(ci)(rock)(mooning) (finger)(drunk)(toivo)
(flag:ad)(flag:ae) (flag:af)(flag:ag) (flag:ai)(flag:al) (flag:am)(flag:an) (flag:ao)(flag:aq) (flag:ar)(flag:as) (flag:at)(flag:au) (flag:aw)(flag:az) (flag:ba)(flag:bb) (flag:bd)(flag:be) (flag:bf)(flag:bg) (flag:bh)(flag:bi) (flag:bj)(flag:bm) (flag:bn)(flag:bo) (flag:br)(flag:bs) (flag:bt)(flag:bv) (flag:bw)(flag:by) (flag:bz)(flag:ca) (flag:cc)(flag:cd) (flag:cf)(flag:cg) (flag:ch)(flag:ci) (flag:ck)(flag:cl) (flag:cm)(flag:cn) (flag:co)(flag:cr) (flag:cs)(flag:cu) (flag:cv)(flag:cx) (flag:cy)(flag:cz) (flag:de)(flag:dj) (flag:dk)(flag:dm) (flag:do)(flag:dz) (flag:ec)(flag:ee) (flag:eg)(flag:eh) (flag:er)(flag:es) (flag:et)(flag:fi) (flag:fj)(flag:fk) (flag:fm)(flag:fo) (flag:fr)(flag:ga) (flag:gb)(flag:gd) (flag:ge)(flag:gf) (flag:gh)(flag:gi) (flag:gl)(flag:gm) (flag:gn)(flag:gp) (flag:gq)(flag:gr) (flag:gs)(flag:gt) (flag:gu)(flag:gw) (flag:gy)(flag:hk) (flag:hm)(flag:hn) (flag:hr)(flag:ht) (flag:hu)(flag:id) (flag:ie)(flag:il) (flag:in)(flag:io) (flag:iq)(flag:ir) (flag:is)(flag:it) (flag:jo)(flag:jp) (flag:ke)(flag:kg) (flag:kh)(flag:ki) (flag:km)(flag:kn) (flag:kp)(flag:kr) (flag:kw)(flag:ky) (flag:kz)(flag:la) (flag:lb)(flag:lc) (flag:li)(flag:lk) (flag:lr)(flag:ls) (flag:lt)(flag:lu) (flag:lv)(flag:ly) (flag:ma)(flag:mc) (flag:md)(flag:mg) (flag:mh)(flag:mk) (flag:ml)(flag:mm) (flag:mn)(flag:mo) (flag:mp)(flag:mq) (flag:mr)(flag:ms) (flag:mt)(flag:mu) (flag:mv)(flag:mw) (flag:mx)(flag:my) (flag:mz)(flag:na) (flag:nc)(flag:ne) (flag:nf)(flag:ng) (flag:ni)(flag:nl) (flag:no)(flag:np) (flag:nr)(flag:nu) (flag:nz)(flag:om) (flag:pa)(flag:pe) (flag:pf)(flag:pg) (flag:ph)(flag:pk) (flag:pl)(flag:pm) (flag:pn)(flag:pr) (flag:ps)(flag:pt) (flag:pw)(flag:py) (flag:qa)(flag:re) (flag:ro)(flag:ru) (flag:rw)(flag:sa) (flag:sb)(flag:sc) (flag:sd)(flag:se) (flag:sg)(flag:sh) (flag:si)(flag:sj) (flag:sk)(flag:sl) (flag:sm)(flag:sn) (flag:so)(flag:sr) (flag:st)(flag:sv) (flag:sy)(flag:sz) (flag:tc)(flag:td) (flag:tf)(flag:tg) (flag:th)(flag:tj) (flag:tk)(flag:tl) (flag:tm)(flag:tn) (flag:to)(flag:tr) (flag:tt)(flag:tv) (flag:tw)(flag:tz) (flag:ua)(flag:ug) (flag:um)(flag:us) (flag:uy)(flag:uz) (flag:va)(flag:vc) (flag:ve)(flag:vg) (flag:vi)(flag:vn) (flag:vu)(flag:wf) (flag:ws)(flag:ye) (flag:yt)(flag:za) (flag:zm)(flag:zw)
Posted by: vasil at October 3, 2006 10:47 AM
guys but (bow) work with which skype??? i have 2.5 skype and (bow) doesnt work what i need download??
Posted by: Jonas at October 14, 2006 2:30 AM
U need at least skype 2.6 to use (bow)
Posted by: Darkness at November 1, 2006 11:07 AM
(headbang)(ci)(rock)(mooning) (finger)(drunk)(toivo)
(flag:ad)(flag:ae) (flag:af)(flag:ag) (flag:ai)(flag:al) (flag:am)(flag:an) (flag:ao)(flag:aq) (flag:ar)(flag:as) (flag:at)(flag:au) (flag:aw)(flag:az) (flag:ba)(flag:bb) (flag:bd)(flag:be) (flag:bf)(flag:bg) (flag:bh)(flag:bi) (flag:bj)(flag:bm) (flag:bn)(flag:bo) (flag:br)(flag:bs) (flag:bt)(flag:bv) (flag:bw)(flag:by) (flag:bz)(flag:ca) (flag:cc)(flag:cd) (flag:cf)(flag:cg) (flag:ch)(flag:ci) (flag:ck)(flag:cl) (flag:cm)(flag:cn) (flag:co)(flag:cr) (flag:cs)(flag:cu) (flag:cv)(flag:cx) (flag:cy)(flag:cz) (flag:de)(flag:dj) (flag:dk)(flag:dm) (flag:do)(flag:dz) (flag:ec)(flag:ee) (flag:eg)(flag:eh) (flag:er)(flag:es) (flag:et)(flag:fi) (flag:fj)(flag:fk) (flag:fm)(flag:fo) (flag:fr)(flag:ga) (flag:gb)(flag:gd) (flag:ge)(flag:gf) (flag:gh)(flag:gi) (flag:gl)(flag:gm) (flag:gn)(flag:gp) (flag:gq)(flag:gr) (flag:gs)(flag:gt) (flag:gu)(flag:gw) (flag:gy)(flag:hk) (flag:hm)(flag:hn) (flag:hr)(flag:ht) (flag:hu)(flag:id) (flag:ie)(flag:il) (flag:in)(flag:io) (flag:iq)(flag:ir) (flag:is)(flag:it) (flag:jo)(flag:jp) (flag:ke)(flag:kg) (flag:kh)(flag:ki) (flag:km)(flag:kn) (flag:kp)(flag:kr) (flag:kw)(flag:ky) (flag:kz)(flag:la) (flag:lb)(flag:lc) (flag:li)(flag:lk) (flag:lr)(flag:ls) (flag:lt)(flag:lu) (flag:lv)(flag:ly) (flag:ma)(flag:mc) (flag:md)(flag:mg) (flag:mh)(flag:mk) (flag:ml)(flag:mm) (flag:mn)(flag:mo) (flag:mp)(flag:mq) (flag:mr)(flag:ms) (flag:mt)(flag:mu) (flag:mv)(flag:mw) (flag:mx)(flag:my) (flag:mz)(flag:na) (flag:nc)(flag:ne) (flag:nf)(flag:ng) (flag:ni)(flag:nl) (flag:no)(flag:np) (flag:nr)(flag:nu) (flag:nz)(flag:om) (flag:pa)(flag:pe) (flag:pf)(flag:pg) (flag:ph)(flag:pk) (flag:pl)(flag:pm) (flag:pn)(flag:pr) (flag:ps)(flag:pt) (flag:pw)(flag:py) (flag:qa)(flag:re) (flag:ro)(flag:ru) (flag:rw)(flag:sa) (flag:sb)(flag:sc) (flag:sd)(flag:se) (flag:sg)(flag:sh) (flag:si)(flag:sj) (flag:sk)(flag:sl) (flag:sm)(flag:sn) (flag:so)(flag:sr) (flag:st)(flag:sv) (flag:sy)(flag:sz) (flag:tc)(flag:td) (flag:tf)(flag:tg) (flag:th)(flag:tj) (flag:tk)(flag:tl) (flag:tm)(flag:tn) (flag:to)(flag:tr) (flag:tt)(flag:tv) (flag:tw)(flag:tz) (flag:ua)(flag:ug) (flag:um)(flag:us) (flag:uy)(flag:uz) (flag:va)(flag:vc) (flag:ve)(flag:vg) (flag:vi)(flag:vn) (flag:vu)(flag:wf) (flag:ws)(flag:ye) (flag:yt)(flag:za) (flag:zm)(flag:zw)
Posted by: eizhar at November 3, 2006 5:56 AM
(flag:kp)
Hm. The North Korean flag does not appear, but instead the Angolan flag.
Posted by: Jaha at November 9, 2006 5:40 AM
no pirat flag??
Posted by: alex at November 15, 2006 10:54 AM