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What's the Moodgeist Pinger program?

Moodgeist Pinger is the program that sits in your computer, collects your Skype contacts’ mood messages and sends them over to the Moodgeist server. For each “ping”, the following data are sent:

  • contact Skype Name
  • contact mood message
  • contact profile language (so that we could provide feeds of messages in different languages)
  • your own Skype Name (so that we can count how many people post to us)

At this time, we do not have a Pinger available that you could easily install and use. We have an alpha one for Windows that can act up a bit but mostly works. If you want it, the right thing to do at this time is just ask Jaanus or Kevin for it. We are thinking of getting one any time soon now — contributions would be welcome. Especially for non-Windows platforms like Mac OS X. If you make one, then please tell us so we could link to it and perhaps also host it here.

To write your own Pinger, see the Moodgeist Pinger protocol.

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Posted by Jaanus on March 22, 2006 8:02 PM |

Comments (2)

Cooli:
Hi, Any simple way to display on my website my Skype mood (in addition to my presence via the Skype button) ? The top would be able to display my profile picture too... Thanks - Cooli

Posted by Cooli | March 27, 2006 7:25 AM

Posted on March 27, 2006 07:25

Jaanus Author Profile Page:
Cooli - at this time, there's no feature of having a personalized mood message for your site, for privacy reasons. We intend to have it in the future. Please read more here: http://www.moodgeist.com/blog/2006/03/moodgeist_privacy_vs_data_publ.html

Posted by Jaanus Author Profile Page | March 27, 2006 11:48 AM

Posted on March 27, 2006 11:48

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