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Moodgeist Pinger, the software that pings us the moods from your Skype contacts to moodgeist.com, is now available for download. Before downloading and running the Pinger, make sure you read and understand the following paragraph.
Moodgeist Pinger captures mood messages from yourself as well as the Skype Contacts who have authorized you (who you have exchanged contact cards with). It sends the mood messages to moodgeist.com. The server captures the mood messages of only those Skype Names who have SkypeWeb enabled. If a Skype Name has SkypeWeb enabled and its mood message is sent to moodgeist.com, the site re-publishes the mood anonymously to the world. Before running the Pinger, please review the moods of your contacts briefly to make sure they do not contain any private details. If you feel there may be any privacy concerns from yourself or your contacts, please do not run the Pinger.
What does the Pinger do? How does it work?
The Pinger goes through your Skype contacts. For each contact, it sends the contact’s mood message to moodgeist.com. moodgeist.com checks if that Skype Name has SkypeWeb enabled. If yes, the mood message is anonymously published on moodgeist.com. “Anonymously” means that we do not publish the Skype Names with mood messages. If the Skype Name did not have SkypeWeb enabled, the mood message is discarded and not published.
Ok this is all cool, give it to me.
Download Moodgeist Pinger for Win32, version 20060412. Requires .NET framework.
Thanks to Kevin and KhaosLabs for contributing the pinger to Moodgeist.
Update July 4, 2006: there is now a newer Pinger available.
What do the Pinger options do?
“Enable Pinging” turns the Pinger on or off.
“Ping Frequency” — this is the interval of how often the Pinger goes through the whole of your contact list and pings over everyone’s mood. If it hasn’t changed, the server detects a duplicate and discards it.
“Run Moodgeist Pinger when Windows starts” — as it says.
Known issues
There are some bugs in this Pinger. Such as:
- does not run under nonprivileged Windows user accounts
- sometimes says “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” — such as when there is no Internet connection
- sometimes returns “Attempted to write to protected memory”
- … probably some more.
Can I read more about what’s with the privacy model?
Yes. Please see these posts: Moodgeist privacy vs data publication/reuse concerns and Privacy update — we now use SkypeWeb for opt-in.
Hey I found a bug?
Please drop a comment here.
Your Pinger sucks. I could easily do a better one.
Please do then. We do not have a Mac pinger at this time, for example — contributions would be welcome :-)
To write the pinger, you have to write a small Skype API client (for any platform) that implements the Moodgeist ping protocol.
