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

OK another intense coding day, just selecting some toons to code to 10:16am

Morning everyone, can't believe its Friday already 9:09am

Thursday, May 15th

Avatars are personal expression how can they be mistaked for brand. 5:05pm

@monkchips If they talking 'Branding' on twitter then they are using the wrong tool in the wrong way. Avatar design is not personal brand 5:02pm

Taking a ten minute breather 4:24pm

@njames I'm on a Mac OSX not sure I want to use Windows. I already use air because of Twirl if it wasn't for twitter it wouldn't happen! 1:48pm

@njames Looks cool, does it work when your off line? 12:04pm

@monkchips That was via:@ccmehil air pages link 11:23am

@monkchips Talking of RIA this is pretty handy http://is.gd/dOk for timetracking 11:22am

@hortovanyi I'm thinking about attending Erlang exchange 11:20am

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