Skype Journal: What if we could make money with the Moodmessage in Skype?
September 30, 2006 11:09 AMGuest post by Hans Blaauw
Many many months ago I wrote a Skype plugin called Mood-o-Matic. It could retreive information from external databases and publish it in your mood. It was limited because Skype did not support clickable mood messages. Now they do!
There seems to be nothing in the EULA about what you are allowed to put in the Mood message (I just checked with some Skypers).
So in theory I could recruit 10000 popular people that are willing to display ads in their Moodmessage when they are away or busy. Imagine, each of these 10000 highly popular people have 25 other people in their list. That would make a interesting audience for advertising.
What if you would have the possibility to get free credits if you would put these ads in your Mood message, interesting?
It seems to me the Mood message can be used for many more things. What if it would support widgets from Widgetbox?
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check moodgeist and now moodgeist google homepage widget
Posted by: artyomt at October 2, 2006 2:23 AM
The ads would have to be relevant! I wouldn't want an ad for haemorrhoids appearing next to my name! ;)
It would have to be a '????? recommends Stormhoek, cos he wouldn't know a good wine if it bit him!'
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at October 2, 2006 2:51 AM
anybody thought about making a plugin (remember www.inventeering.com, the video still image plugin) that would show some advertising the people who download that plugin... I would not mind that... anyways. even if there is nothing mentioned in the EULA does not mean there might not be mentioned someting in the future. the whole problem with the current skype version (there is only one right?) is that it is being used for too many purposes. time to split up the development in different skypes. are there enough developers for that purpose ?
Posted by: tropicaljantie | jan geirnaert at October 2, 2006 8:55 AM
I love the idea of doing interesting things with mood messages. They have become very important in the social lives of many young (and not so young) people. No offense intended, but this idea seems like the Internet equivalent of tattooing your forhead with a Nike logo.
Posted by: Dean Terry at October 5, 2006 8:50 PM