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.