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

@gerryvz Any pattern of opinion differences on EDS-HP M&A between analysts that blog and those that don't? Speed vs. reflection? 4:48pm

Anybody going to Forrester's AR Council or IT Forum next week? 4:00pm

@gilliatt It use to be that almost all analysts were yankees, thank goodness that isn't the case anymore. ;-> 3:59pm

@YankeeGroup are there any Yankee analysts on Twitter? 2:48pm

@DIHarrison Saw your tweets from #GartBarc2008 on how few tweeting analysts. 67 on Analyst Twitter Directory http://tinyurl.com/2cdjje 2:16pm

Whoa, a $1m threat. Sounds juicy. Love to have an OTR chat over beers. I'll DM you with times. 1:24pm

@CurtMonash Yep, I am waayyyy behind. Been real busy. Hope to get caught up soon. 1:17pm

@idarose Hmm, I think it's time to blog about vendors threatening to cancel business is actually catnip for analysts. Check Friday's post 5:14am

@jowyang Ok, count me in. I donated to Red Cross China relief fund at http://tinyurl.com/5xzzwv It's easy and for a good cause. 5:11am

Getting ready for the Forrester AR Council panel. 5:06am

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