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.

  @ccmehil

Friday, May 16th

@aqualung nah been on the road so stuck on train mostly :-) 8:34pm

@cb2206 very sure about her not reading it ;-) 8:34pm

@dan_mcweeney no worries have some changes to do and stuff so my alpha testers are tearing it up :-) 8:34pm

@greentown Berlin is Monday and yep time now 8:33pm

#sapmentors when you arrive at the airport look for the #sapphire08 shuttle buses 5:27pm

In case anyone remembers the "good thing" I mentioned last week then I'll be blogging what it is tonight or tomorrow :-) 4:33pm

One more train to catch and then an hour or so I am home, wife thinks at least 3 more hours :-) it's the little surprises right? 4:32pm

#sapmentors those of you going Berlin please email me if you have questions we've have you all sorted on Monday no worries 2:58pm

Anyone in Australia/New Zeland know anyone looking for SAP folks with background in integration and Open Source? DM me please 2:23pm

Thursday, May 15th

Crackberry says 7% battery but I'm in L:Walldorf now so not too bad 4:01pm

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