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Skype Journal: Welcome to Mood-O-Matic

December 11, 2005 11:29 AM

Guest post by Hans Blaauw, The Skypeteer

[Editor: I'm sooooo sorry for spelling your name wrong, Hans. Corrected.]

UPDATE 13 December 2005: the download is temporary offline. Download Mood O Matic

With the introduction of the Skype mood field in version 2.0, I have come to the conclusion that this Mood field can be used for much more dynamic information to show to the world.

After enabling my Mood O Matic i immediately received a few people interested in it. This proofs that information in the mood field can be very powerful. (by the way, the odd looking dude on the picture is me the bluedude).

That's why I created the Mood O Matic. This software does dynamic mood by using Moodies.
Moodies are code snippets that update the Mood in Skype with interactive information. Information can be:

- items from a RSS feed;
- highest auction bid on a product you sell;
- output from a brainscanner :-) (Thanks Mat);
- information from a database;
- anything else...

The script Moodie can update the mood field by getting information from scripts:

Below you find some sample URL's to use:

http://www.skypeteer.com/moodies/stock.asp
http://www.skypeteer.com/moodies/skypestat.asp
http://www.skypeteer.com/moodies/cnn.asp

For developers
Developers can develop new moodies that are configurable through the main Mood O Matic interface. Besides that developers can write scripts that produce dynamic information.

Checkout the readme file in the VB6 moodie sample directory.


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great! but i can't get it!http://blog.blogwhy.com/dionyseus/

Posted by: dionyseus [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 11, 2005 8:19 PM

dynamic information to be shown on your skype maybe great!

Posted by: dionyseus [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 11, 2005 8:22 PM

Hmm, my name is Hans Blaauw and not Blau.

Spelling it like this is German I think :-)

Download at:
http://www.skypeteer.com/downloads/setupmoodomatic.exe

And i added some Flickr support.

Posted by: Hans Blaauw at December 12, 2005 1:16 AM

Hmm, my name is Hans Blaauw and not Blau.
Spelling it like this is German I think :-)
Download at:
http://www.skypeteer.com/downloads/setupmoodomatic.exe
And i added some Flickr support.

But i can't get it !
maye your website is blocked !?

Posted by: dionyseus [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 12, 2005 4:59 PM