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.

  @ferdy

Wednesday, May 14th

@monkchips "Digo garabatos" is something like "I say words with no sense", or "statements with nothing in common". 12:43pm

Finished meeting with one Rational exec. Asked him to adopt the transparency model on all the brand. He seemed not very convinced. 12:38pm

Tuesday, May 13th

Booking a shuttle for Thursday. Going to enjoy Eurodisney with family. 11:38pm

Did I said that I hate business games? 5:25pm

Discovering new products based on Jazz that are not under the transparency model umbrella. Perhaps system/z dudes are not so cool. 5:00pm

Monday, May 12th

LOL: Prince2 method might be the first good reason for IT companies in Europe to cut away the sea floor cables and flood the Channel Tunnel. 11:18pm

Sending a doc about agile practices to a good buddy. Let's see if I can "influence" on its adoption. 10:18pm

HP is close to a deal to buy EDS http://tinyurl.com/6dd7yw 9:28pm

Sunday, May 11th

Feeling very, very, very strange. I found it's more easier to install DB2 on a system/Z than on a Win platform. 11:14pm

Sunday, May 11th

Preparing some question for the RTC Focus Group session at RSDC'08. 12:49am

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