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.

  @cjuon

Thursday, May 15th

Twice in 2 days I've given this blogging advice: "Use categories - they are your friend." (IOW, they are a good way to get found via search) 4:14pm

Wednesday, May 14th

Did I already say today was a big day? Here I go again! @chrisbrogan is coming to Detroit! Tweetup time! http://blog.purevisibility.com/ 3:54pm

Who is familiar with Goldline Research and their work with major business publications? 2:48pm

Today is a big day! The USPTO FINALLY approved us for use of the mark Pure Visibility! Woohoo! (There's a long story there for later...) 1:42pm

Headed out to the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium today: http://www.michigangcs.com/ - look me up if you're there! 1:20pm

NOW I find out there wasn't b-ball practice tonight. I only spent 1 hr checking every field in town. :-p Ah well, played tennis instead. :-) 3:57am

Tuesday, May 13th

Posted service details for Sue in my blog: http://tinyurl.com/23wjqg 8:43pm

Thanks all for the well wishes. Twitters make nice little hugs. :-) 1:05pm

I may have to move soon - the radiator next to me is making crazy rattling noises, and only the one next to me. Just a wee bit eerie... 1:04pm

Not that you could sum up Sue in 140 characters. She's my mom-in-law and she passed away today. Services Fri. am at St. Mary's in Ann Arbor. 2:09am

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