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.

  @justinhayward

Thursday, May 15th

I guess at least it wasn't a @chinposin one 7:53pm

just seen the pamphlet that we're doing for INTA with MY FACE on the front of it. I am SO SORRY in advance if you see this early in the am! 7:52pm

Preparing what to say to 8000 trademark and IP lawyers in Berlin next week at INTA about .tel and why it's not just another TLD - ulp! 7:50pm

@stedavies congratulations to you guys 7:48pm

17 hour day and still going! Wouldn't change it for the world though... 7:20am

Wednesday, May 14th

@CJTarbett - yep, it's sunny, 25 degrees and smoggy! 3:55pm

Strange being on the other side of the Twittersphere here in LA - watching sunrise over the airport whilst working on a presso 3:17pm

Wednesday, May 14th

stoked for Rob who won a Sony award http://robshearman.livejournal.com/9724.html 12:39am

@andismit the wonders of paraphrasing! I'll be searching for agencies globally but they might not be global. Might even be consultants ;-) 12:28am

Shooting off to Los Angeles. Didn't see that one coming last week! 7:15am

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