Ambient Avatars { for ambient intimacy

Embed your ambient avatar:

Please note: We need to adjust the thumbnail size for the avatar. Coming soon.

WTF?

Adventures in time and face. Chinposin may be for Fridays, but ambient avatars are an everyday thing. This is still a prenatal release, but we think the concept has legs.

When we built chinposin, we noticed that people like to play with their avatars, but there wasn't any way to track the changes. Frankly, we wanted to look at our own changes on an avatar timeline. So here it is. All you need to do is follow us on twitter.

And so now we’re storing your avatars on an ongoing basis. That wasn’t so painful now was it? We’re just at the very beginning though of what will hopefully be a long and interesting journey. It started with Friday chinposin, with its need to “update” your avatar with a twitter command. But we wanted to simplify things and this is the result.

Now if you follow @chinposin on twitter we’ll automatically store any changes to your avatar. There are some obvious privacy implications so it is important we state up front that the only information we’re storing are pictures. If you want to opt out now it’s as easy as unsubscribing from @chinposin. If you want us to delete any avatars we’ve already stored we’d be only happy to make them disappear in a puff of greasy black smoke. Another important note- when we started @chinposin we were a little free and easy about blogging and using flickr images that you tagged “chinposin”. But some of you had marked the pictures as “all rights reserved” which makes life difficult for us. While we promise never to use your images from twitter/ or flickr in another context without explicit permission to do so, its pretty obvious that be following @chinposin you’re opting into allowing us to store some avatar data, even if it’s just a picture.

It’s time for active avatars – and a sustainable opt-in community. That’s what we’re working on. If you have any issues or problems, or good ideas for new features please twitter them as an @reply to @chinposin or send an email to chris[at]yellowpark[dot]net or jgovernor[at]redmonk[dot]com.

  @Damiano

Tuesday, May 13th

Gloriously happy walking the streets of NYC,love it here. Bright sunshine, fresh cool breeze with all the world walking to work.Bring it on. 2:53pm

Sunday, May 11th

@uniquefrequency Your link is broken, but thanks for coming back to me. Much appreciated. 7:33pm

@whatsnext Thanks, I'll check it out now. 7:33pm

@quiverandquill Thanks I'll have a crack now. The advice is much appreciated. 7:23pm

Need a modest room in cool mid/downtown NYC hotel for just tomoro, monday nite? Does anyone work or pull strings to get me a great rate pls? 7:15pm

@creativemeasure what about www.videodownloadx.com? 2:04pm

Great post on the future of newspapers - http://tinyurl.com/69zmpo 11:36am

Saturday, May 10th

amazingly curved bridge supported by one tower http://tinyurl.com/55ymey 10:48pm

Just arrived in Boston, Mass. (Cambridge/Harvard) Cold and cloudy here and looking to find something fun to do here tonight. 9:36pm

Thursday, May 8th

At desk, soho drinking & watching this piece of meshlining, an augmented reality edu tool web vid-http://tinyurl.com/2h7mkq 7:47pm

We're still not finished building the interface or the features that we have planned. Bear with us, this is a Prenatal Release, afterall.