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Consensus Skills and Tasks

This is a database and bulletin board that puts people with Skills in touch with people with Tasks who are searching for those Skills. It can be accessed through the Skype Extras framework. It's mainly intended to link Skype users who have Skills and Tasks, but you can use it even if you are not yet a Skype user.

Consensus Skills and Tasks Website

This project involves a number of technologies:

  • XHTML and CSS for the web design
  • PHP for the server-side code.
  • MySQL databases to store the skills and tasks
  • Skype API code to interact with the Skype client
  • Ajax to send Skype chat messages when new matching listings are posted.

Skype Extras

The Skype 3.0 client has a new Tools > Do More menu - which opens up a gallery of third-party plugins, or "Extras". These Extras perform a variety of tasks using the Skype infrastructure to pass messages and data between Skype users.

The Extras interact with the Skype client and can use it to start Skype calls, send chat messages and transfer data to matching applications running on other machines.

If you would like to implement a Skype Extra then contact us - we may be able to help.