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.

  @finnern

Tuesday, May 13th

Now that @jaghool realized the weight of his twitter name he switched to @aslann. Welcome ;-) 10:51pm

@jaghool aka Aslan welcome to Twitter. Great that you help me develop the SAP Mentor program. https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/sapmentors 10:41pm

Monday, May 12th

@dalepd Happy Birthday Dale Dougherty. Amazing how many people you make happy through Make Magazine and Maker Faire, me included. Thanks. 5:40am

@moyalynne Yep, once changed to Masai Facebook accepted my ad. Wikipedia is redirecting Masai to Maasai http://snurl.com/28eef Who's right? 1:52am

@jeffnolan Norton Commando or Norton Commander both sent me down different memory lanes ;-) http://snurl.com/28ee3 http://snurl.com/28ee7 1:42am

Sunday, May 11th

@cote Loosing Moleskin, that is the nightmare scenarios and one of the reasons I am not using them more. Where is the backup? 5:49am

@moyalynne I thought so too. Check his YouTube interview http://snurl.com/28a23 they use Maasai too. Machine rejection I'am convinced :-( 1:52am

O.K. fellow native English speakers, FB rejected again. What is wrong with my last ad text? http://snurl.com/289uc Spelling? Incomplete? 1:21am

Saturday, May 10th

Wow, Facebook rejected my ad. Second try: Kenyan Maasai warrior and chief Salaton Ole Ntutu will talk about change and traditions at our FS 10:12pm

@jeffnolan My '71 Trimph Tiger sits in the garage and I don't even know what parts it needs. Other priorities right now. Alice's one day OK 4:46am

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