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.

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Friday, May 16th

@ruthwalters Team brown nosing? What you jibber jabbering about?!? 8:07pm

Great presentation on Career 2.0 from @domw http://tinyurl.com/5coqdo 5:00pm

Thursday, May 15th

@neilrob Didn't go anywhere exciting - just around the UK to visit friends/families and have some 'me time' ;) Moved house yet? 4:09pm

@neilrob Noticed you've changed your username too?! 3:04pm

@neilrob Good thanks - been on hols for 2 weeks hence being quiet. Back on it now though. Hows things down your way? 3:03pm

@bits500 Gladiators? Are you ready?!? All the women look scarily like men! They're just saying that @skynews hasn't been updated for ages 3:02pm

@bits500 I'm good - just started a new job. You still at Sky News? Few people on Twitter bitchin about them today 2:53pm

@bits500 Sorry I missed the BBQ on Saturday - how did it go? 2:37pm

Dreaming about the day there is no news... Oh wait http://is.gd/gvf 2:02pm

@dominiccampbell I'm not too far from you so would be quick for you to get here and there'd be a short walk of shame after I kick YOUR ass! 12:27pm

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